Can you freeze mash?
Yes. Freeze it in portions, one to each container.
How to freeze and defrost it, with the Food Standards Agency’s advice at each step.
The recipe
One batch makes 1 portion.
Ingredients for 1 portion
Method
Mash
- Boil the kettle.
- Peel king edwards potatoes and cut them into 4 cm chunks. Keep the peelings if you're making peel crisps.
- Put the chunks in your biggest pan, pour over water from the kettle and bring back to the boil.
- Simmer for 15 minutes, until a knife slides through the chunks.
- Drain well and leave them in the colander for 2 minutes to steam dry, so the mash isn't watery.
- Tip back into the pan, add salted butter and whole milk and mash until smooth. Season with black pepper.
How to freeze
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cool any warm dishes before putting them in your freezer
, says the Food Standards Agency. - Put the lid on the container.
How to defrost
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the safest way to defrost food is in the fridge overnight
, says the Food Standards Agency. - Take the lid off.
- Tip it into a pan and heat it, stirring, until it’s steaming hot all the way through.
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it is important that food is cooked to steaming hot throughout, rather than warmed
, says the Food Standards Agency.
How we’d cook it, not advice. We don’t check recipes for allergens, and ingredients vary by brand, so check the label on everything you use. Prepare and cook food the way the Food Standards Agency says. Allergens and food safety
Nutrition
Per portion- Energy
- 406 kcal
- Fat
- 17.1g
- Carbohydrate
- 54.4g
- Protein
- 6.6g
Nutrition details
- Energy
- 406 kcal
- Fat
- 17.1g
- of which saturates
- 6.9g
- Carbohydrate
- 54.4g
- of which sugars
- 4g
- Fibre
- 5.5g
- Protein
- 6.6g
- Salt
- 0.22g
Estimated from ingredient data.
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Part of a whole bag of potatoes
1kg of a 2kg bag of potatoes: for the freezer, 4 portions. The same session makes roast potatoes and potato peel crisps.
No special kit
- Works best in freezer bags Any freezer-safe container does the job too.
- Everything from one shop Batch cook it with Nomstash and the freezer bags go on the same shopping list as the food.
Cook what you already cook
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Freezing and defrosting safely
The Food Standards Agency’s advice, in their words.
Label everything you freeze.
label food you freeze so you don’t end up with Unidentified Frozen Objects (UFOs)
The rest of the Food Standards Agency’s advice, in their words, is in our freezing and defrosting guide.
Sources
- Food Standards Agency How to chill, freeze and defrost food safely gov.uk
- Food Standards Agency Cooking your food gov.uk
Last checked . Each quotation on this page was read against the page it links to.