Hay-Smoked Mashed Potatoes

The farm-field aroma of smoking hay imbues elemental mashed potatoes with a pastoral flavor. The potatoes are robustly, but not overwhelmingly, flavored with the hay smoke. For a lighter fume taste, substitute pat h2o for the potato-cooking water.

You volition request 6 cups of alfalfa and 2 cups of timothy hay, some of which are disposable astatine section plot centers and favored shops. If you are disquieted astir however the smoking hay mightiness impact the interior of your pot, enactment the cookware with aluminum foil.

Remember, you are smoking wrong the house. Smoke mightiness permeate your room and parts of your location for a time oregon two. It volition dissipate, but to trim the smell, support the lid connected the cookware passim the cooking and for astatine slightest 30 minutes aft cooking (The much you unfastened the lid, the much fume you release.) In addition, usage your stove’s exhaust fan, and possibly unfastened a window.

You tin fume the potatoes a time successful beforehand and refrigerate until you’re acceptable to boil them.

From Smoke Signals columnist Jim Shahin.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 6)

• Calories

  180

• Fat

  7 g

• Saturated Fat

  4 g

• Carbohydrates

  28 g

• Sodium

  970 mg

• Cholesterol

  20 mg

• Protein

  4 g

• Fiber

  2 g

• Sugar

  2 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Smoke Signals columnist Jim Shahin.

Tested by Jim Shahin.