Easy Mexican Mash
The kitchen sink potatoes was the working title for this one. Make them today and use anything you have handy. The kids will love you for it! Too easy
Mexican Mash is perfect family weeknight food. I think it could be a lazy mum’s main dish (admitting nothing here), but I also think it is absolutely amazing alongside a rack of barbecued ribs, or some slow-cooked pulled pork. Think Nachos without the chips, add any toppings your family loves and you are away! Thanks mum!
This recipe first appeared in Cooking with Tenina the cookbook (as a Thermomix recipe) which is now out of print except for right here on my site. Go get it while stocks last
Need
- 1-2 Litres water for boiling
- 500–800 Grams starchy potatoes, quartered, bigger pieces are better than smaller
- pink salt flakes to taste BUY
- 75 Grams parmesan
- 75 Grams vintage cheddar
- 3 cloves garlic
- Handfuls coriander, leaves and stalks
- 20 Grams Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) BUY
- 2 Teaspoons Picante Spice mix Recipe
- 1 cob corn
- 1-2 Teaspoons chipotle in adobo sauce (optional)
- 50 Grams Baconnaise or other mayonnaise Recipe
- 1x 400 gram Tin Red Kidney Beans drained
- ½ each red, green, yellow capsicum, diced
- A few grape tomatoes, halved
- 1 avocado diced
- 2–3 spring onions, sliced
- Sour cream to taste
Do
- 1
Prepare the potatoes and place into a pot of cold water enough to cover. Add salt so the water is salty like tears! Bring to the boil.
- 2
Cook 25–30 minutes until tender when pierced with a fork. Remove from stove and drain, but return potatoes to the hot saucepan.
- 3
Grate all the cheeses and set aside.
- 4
Chop garlic, coriander, and stir through with the olive oil and Picante spice mix.
- 5
Place this mixture into a frying pan and sauté until just fragrant. Add a little butter or cream to this mixture if desired and toss all of it in with the cooked potatoes. Add the 1/2 the cheese and mash away! Add sour cream or butter or both until you get the desired texture. You should add this all slowly as the potatoes take time to absorb liquid.
- 6
Char-grill the corn in an open flame or on a barbecue until well blackened and kernels are softened. Cut from the cob.
- 7
Stir through other ingredients by hand, finishing with remaining cheese and sour cream.
More
You can add absolutely anything of choice to this mash, go all out and mix up some Nacho style toppings to make it go even further!
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
