MOLECULARLY VELVET MASHED POTATOES

No Cream, No Butter and No Milk!

Just a little ingredient called Diastatic Malt Powder. The traditional way to make mash potato is to use loads of butter, cream, milk or a combination of the three. This completely hides the potato flavour, but you can get a velvety like texture mash potato just by only using five grams of this powder and potatoes.

INGREDIENTS

– 1Kg of Water

– 500g of Ruby Red Potatoes (peeled and cut into 2.5cm pieces)

–  15g Salt

– 10g Sugar

– 5g Diastatic Malt Powder

– Thermometer

METHOD

First pre-heat the SousVide to 52°. Place the potatoes salt and sugar into a pot and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat slightly and cook for thirty to forty minutes or until very tender, then strain. Place the potatoes into a blender with the Diastatic Malt Powder and blitz until smooth and sticky. Pour into a vac-pac bag, seal and place into the SousVide and cook for thirty minutes. You can do this without a SousVide and this link bellow will show you how.

Its important to cook the potato at 50° as it activates the enzyme and it starts to breakdown all the starch. Lastly , transfer to a pot and heat until the mash reaches 75°. This stops the enzymatic activity. Season to your liking and serve immediately.

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Full credit to the guys at Modernist Cuisine: http://modernistcuisine.com/recipes/diastatic-potato-puree/