Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes are the creamiest, easiest, no-fuss Mashed Potato Recipe you’ll find! Making Mashed Potatoes in the Instant Pot takes minutes to make and you don’t even have to babysit a pot of boiling water! You’ll never make Mashed Potatoes any other way!
Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes Single Serving or for a CROWD! (Cook 5 POUNDS at once!
One of my favorite things about the Instant Pot is the fact that time doesn’t change when cooking larger quantities. So you can follow this ‘recipe’ as a guideline for 1 potato or an entire 5 lb bag of potatoes!
Sometimes I just get a hankering for a big ol’ bowl of mashed potatoes and gravy. If you haven’t made some sort of protein to go along with your mashed potatoes, you can actually easily make your own chicken gravy from scratch without drippings.
No matter what you put on it, this will be your go to mashed potato recipe from here on out! Love sweet potatoes? Try this Instant Pot Mashed Sweet Potatoes recipe!
Mashed Potatoes Instant Pot Ingredients
- 5 lbs russet potatoes (washed, peeled and cut)
- 2 cups water
- 1/2 cup butter
- 3 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 3 tbsp cream (or milk)
How to make Mashed Potatoes in Instant Pot
- Wash, peel and cut the potatoes. To cut the potatoes, cut each potato in half and then quarter each half. You will end up with 8 similar sized potato cubes.
- Add the water to the Instant Pot liner, add in the cut potatoes.
- Secure lid, set the vent to sealing. Cook on Manual (pressure cook) HIGH for 6 minutes. Quick Release the pressure.
- Drain any remaining water.
- Add in the butter, salt, pepper and cream. Mash until no longer lumpy.
Use either a potato masher or an electric hand mixer to mash the potatoes until they are no longer lumpy.
Be careful to insure you do not over mash/mix the potatoes. Over mashed potatoes will turn gluey. Only mash or mix just until it is no longer lumpy.
Reheating Mashed Potatoes in the Instant Pot
Reheating mashed potatoes in the Instant Pot is such an easy thing to do. Place your mashed potatoes in the liner of your Instant Pot a few hours before you want to serve them. Turn your Instant Pot onto the highest slow cook setting. Let your mashed potatoes sit and warm up, giving them a stir every 30 minutes or so until the mashed potatoes have heated through. Mashed potatoes do tend to dry out while reheating, so you may need to add a splash of milk to fluff them back up.
Instant Pot Mashed Potato Recipe Variations
You can doctor up your mashed potatoes any way you like- here are some of my favorite ways:
- Buttermilk and garlic
- cream cheese and chives,
- bbq sauce and bacon (with lots of cheese, of course)
- and you just can’t go wrong with the classic butter, cream, salt and pepper.
What to serve with this Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes Recipe
Mashed potatoes are a great side for a number of main dishes, really you can’t go wrong! I love to serve Instant Pot mashed potatoes as a side to pot roast, French dip sandwiches, grilled chicken, Philly cheesesteaks, or even crock pot ham!
These mashed potatoes are great as a side to some BBQ Chicken or doused with gravy.
Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes Recipe FAQ
Why are my instant mashed potatoes rubbery?
When mashed potatoes go rubbery or gluey, that means they have been worked too much and too much liquid has been added.
What is the trick to good mashed potatoes?
The trick to good mashed potatoes is cooking. your potatoes thoroughly, adding butter first, mashing by hand and then slowly adding in a little liquid of your choice at a time, mixing until the liquid is just mixed in. Do not over mix and you should be golden!
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Check out my other Easy Instant Pot Recipes!
- Instant Pot Spaghetti Squash
- Instant Pot Chicken Alfredo
- Instant Pot Pot Roast
- Instant Pot Twice Baked Potatoes
- Instant Pot Creamy Ziti
- Instant Pot Chicken Lo Mein
- Instant Pot Shepherd’s Pie
- Instant Pot Creamy Tomato Tortellini Soup
- Instant Pot Applesauce
- Instant Pot Broccoli
Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes Recipe
Ingredients
- 5 lbs russet potatoes washed, peeled and cut
- 2 cups water
- 1/2 cup butter
- 3 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 3 tbsp cream or milk
Instructions
- Wash, peel and cut the potatoes. To cut the potatoes, cut each potato in half and then quarter each half. You will end up with 8 similar sized potato cubes.
- Add the water to the Instant Pot liner, add in the cut potatoes.
- Secure lid, set the vent to sealing. Cook on Manual (pressure cook) HIGH for 6 minutes. Quick Release the pressure.
- Drain any remaining water.
- Add in the butter, salt, pepper and cream. Mash until no longer lumpy.
Karli Bitner says
Yes- should work great!
Terri Street says
Question! I noticed you said if someone cooked 10 lbs. of potatoes they should add an extra cup of water. If I only want to do 2.5 lbs. should a I cut the water back to only one cup? I know the time stays the same.
Karli Bitner says
It won’t matter either way since you’ll be draining your water. If you are using more potatoes, you’ll want more water in there to help it come to pressure but if you are using less potatoes you can use the same amount or cut the water back. Shouldn’t make a difference! 🙂
SG says
How long does it take to come to pressure?
Cooking with Karli says
It depends on how many mashed potatoes you have in the instant pot.