Loaded Mashed Potatoes Recipe!

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 splurge very often on Prime Rib but it has become a tradition to smoke one for Christmas every year.  (You can see my recipe -> here on how to smoke Prime Rib) I also make these potatoes for Thanksgiving and Easter as well.  I love that 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 Recipe 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 Recipe 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 potatoes are 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.  

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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!!

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Loaded Mashed Potatoes

This Loaded Mashed Potatoes Recipe is perfect for any holiday dinner like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, or other special dinners! The flavor is amazing!

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American, Asian

Keyword baby potatoes, Bacon, loaded potatoes, mashed potatoes, Side dish, thanksgiving

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Total Time 35 minutes

Servings 16

Author Jenny

Ingredients

• 4 lbs Potatoes Gold or Russet
• 4 Tsp Minced Garlic
• 3/4 cup Butter
• 1 lb Bacon cut into pieces
• 3 Green onion cut
• 4 Cups Shredded Cheddar Cheese
• 1/2 cup Milk
• 4 oz Cream Cheese

Instructions

1. Start a pot of boiling water for your potatoes

2. Rinse off and peel your potatoes

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

6. Strain your potatoes and place them into your mixing bowl

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

8. Allow your mixer to mix the ingredients well

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