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🥔 Garlic Mashed Potatoes with Roasted Mushroom Gravy

 

🥔 Garlic Mashed Potatoes with Roasted Mushroom Gravy

A nourishing, plant-based twist on a holiday classic — creamy, grounding, simple, and deeply flavourful.

💚 Description

This dish brings together everything we love about holiday meals: comfort, warmth, and depth of flavour — without the heaviness.

The garlic mashed potatoes are made with the Eat Real to Heal long-and-low cooking method, which preserves nutrients, concentrates flavour, and eliminates the need to drain water. The roasted mushroom gravy is rich, savoury, and velvety, built on caramelized mushrooms, onions, and nutritional yeast for that deep umami.

This is comfort food aligned with healing — grounding for the nervous system, rich in minerals, and loved by plant-based and non–plant-based eaters alike.

🥣 Ingredients

Garlic Mashed Potatoes

  • 4 medium russet potatoes (or Yukon Gold), peeled & chopped

  • ¾ cup unsweetened plant milk (warmed)

  • 3–4 cloves garlic, smashed (for garlic-infused milk)

  • ½–1 tsp garlic powder

  • Pepper

  • Chives or parsley (optional)

Roasted Mushroom Gravy

  • 2–3 cups mixed mushrooms, sliced

  • 2 tbsp vegetable broth (for roasting)

  • 1 medium onion, diced

  • 2–3 cloves garlic, minced

  • 1 tbsp tamari (optional)

  • 2 heaping tbsp nutritional yeast

  • 2 cups vegetable broth or reserved potato water

  • Optional: ½–1 cup cooked potatoes (to thicken)

  • Pepper

  • Thyme or sage (optional)

🔪 Directions

GARLIC MASHED POTATOES

⭐ Eat Real to Heal “Long + Low” Method

  1. Add peeled, chopped potatoes to a heavy pot.

  2. Add ¼ cup water — just enough to lightly coat the bottom.

  3. Cover tightly.

  4. Bring to high heat for 3–4 minutes to build steam.

  5. Turn heat to low and cook 20–25 minutes without lifting the lid.

  6. When fork-tender, mash directly in the pot — no draining needed.

⭐ Infuse the Garlic

  1. Warm the plant milk on low.

  2. Add smashed garlic cloves and infuse for 10 minutes.

  3. Remove garlic pieces.

⭐ Mash

  1. Slowly add warm garlic-infused milk to the potatoes.

  2. Add garlic powder to deepen flavour.

  3. Add pepper and herbs.

  4. Mash until creamy.

ROASTED MUSHROOM GRAVY

⭐ Roast the Mushrooms (Oil-Free)

  1. Toss mushrooms with 1–2 tbsp broth.

  2. Spread them in a slightly crowded layer on a parchment-lined tray.

  3. Cover with parchment or foil.

  4. Roast at 350°F for 10 minutes.

  5. Uncover and roast another 10–15 minutes until browned and juicy.

⭐ Build the Gravy

  1. Water-sauté onions until translucent.

  2. Add garlic and cook 1–2 minutes.

  3. Add roasted mushrooms, tamari, and nutritional yeast.

  4. Add broth (or potato water), bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer for 10–15 minutes.

  5. For a thicker gravy, add cooked potato and simmer 2–3 more minutes.

⭐ Blend

  1. Use an immersion blender for a rustic texture
    or blend in a high-speed blender for velvety smoothness. Be careful with the hot liquid.

  2. Adjust with broth for a thinner texture or more potato for thicker.

✨ BONUS RECIPE

Air Fryer Potato Peel Crisps (350°F, Oil-Free)

A delicious zero-waste snack made from something most people throw away.

Ingredients

  • Peels from 4–6 organic potatoes

  • 1–2 tsp vegetable broth

  • Garlic powder

  • Pepper

  • Nutritional yeast (optional)

  • Paprika or herbs (optional)

Directions

  1. Preheat air fryer to 350°F.

  2. Dry peels well.

  3. Toss with broth + seasonings.

  4. Air fry 8–10 minutes, shaking halfway.

  5. Cool 2–3 minutes to crisp fully.

Perfect as a snack or crunchy garnish for your mashed potatoes.

🥔 Potato Buying Guide — Which Potato Is Best for What?

Russet (Baking Potatoes)

  • High starch, fluffy

  • Best for: classic mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, fries

  • Your family tradition — light, cloud-like mash.

Yukon Gold

  • Medium starch, creamy, naturally buttery

  • Best for: rich, golden mashed potatoes, roasting

White / New Potatoes

  • Waxy, smooth

  • Best for: potato salads, soups, dishes where the potato needs to hold its shape

Red Potatoes

  • Waxy, low-starch

  • Best for: roasting, salads — not ideal for mashing

Mini Potatoes

  • Usually waxy

  • Best for: roasting, boiling — not for mashing

Chef’s trick:
For the ultimate mash → ½ Russet + ½ Yukon Gold

🌿 Potatoes Are Nutrient-Dense — Not the Villain

Potatoes have been unfairly vilified as “just carbs,” but whole potatoes are one of the most nutrient-dense, complete foods on the planet.

They provide:

  • More potassium than a banana

  • Vitamin C

  • B vitamins

  • Iron & magnesium

  • Resistant starch for gut + serotonin support

  • Fibre + antioxidants concentrated in the skin

Historically, potatoes were so nutritionally complete that they sustained entire populations.
The issue was never the potato — it was what we did to potatoes (deep-frying, drowning in dairy, pairing with ultra-processed foods).

Whole potatoes are grounding, stabilizing, deeply nourishing, and extremely supportive to the nervous system.

🌿 Nutrition Commentary

This dish is grounding and deeply supportive for the nervous system:

  • Potatoes stabilize energy and support serotonin.

  • Mushrooms offer immune-enhancing beta-glucans and natural glutamates for deep umami.

  • Nutritional yeast boosts B-vitamins for energy and resilience.

  • Garlic supports immunity and circulatory health.

This is comfort food that nourishes the whole body.