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This Loaded Mashed Potatoes Recipe is one of the few reasons I can get my kids to eat mashed potatoes without whining about it. Now, these potatoes are also my favorite as well and if you pair them up with prime rib or steak they are even better! (I have included affiliate links to products I love. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. )

Now we don’t indulge often on Prime Rib but it has become a tradition to smoke one for Christmas every year when they go on sale. (You can see my recipe -> here on how to smoke Prime Rib) Now let me say these Loaded Mashed Potatoes taste even better as leftovers and even cold! The recipe for these is essentially the same as my Twice Loaded Baked Potato Casserole with fewer steps. (You can see that -> here)

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Loaded Mashed Potatoes Ingredients:

4 lbs Potatoes
4 tsp of garlic
¾ cup butter
1lb Bacon
4 teaspoons minced garlic
3 Green onion
Salt & pepper to taste
4 cups Cheddar cheese
1/2 cup Milk or cream
1 cup Sour cream
4 oz Cream cheese

**You can change up the ingredients to your taste this is what has become our sweet spot for the family, though the kids pick out green onions**

Loaded Mashed Potatoes Directions:

Start a pot of boiling water for your potatoes.

Rinse off and peel your potatoes.

Cut up your potatoes into chunks for easier boiling. You can use Russet or Gold Potatoes to make these. The gold is my personal favorite.

Boil your potatoes until they are ready to be mashed up.

While the potatoes are going dice up your bacon and cook it to your doneness you prefer. I personally like juicy bacon so that’s how we eat ours.

Now if you don’t have a bacon screen you need to get one! I love that it stops the bacon grease from going all over your stove. I also use my screens to drain the bacon grease into a jar to make my eggs with. I mean who doesn’t love fried eggs in bacon grease?

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Strain your potatoes and place them into your mixing bowl.

Keeping the cheese out dump the rest of the ingredients in your mixing bowl.

Allow your mixer to mix the ingredients well.

Dump in your cheese and allow the mixer to mix so the cheese is spread out.

Serve and enjoy!!