Italian mashed potatoes

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 750 g floury potatoes
• 3 shallots
• 2 garlic cloves
• 25 g pine nuts
• 50 jar olives, black, in oil, without stones
• 1 bunch of basil
• 25 ml olive oil
• 25 g butter
• 50 ml milk
• Salt
• pepper, black

Instructions

Working time approx. 30 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 35 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour 5 minutes

rustic, from the steamer

Peel and quarter the potatoes. Cook in a perforated cooking container using the “Boiled Potatoes” program for about 34 minutes. Meanwhile, peel and finely chop the shallots and garlic. Roast the pine nuts in a pan without fat. Drain the olives and roughly chop them. Finely slice the basil leaves. Heat the olive oil and sauté the shallots and garlic. Add the olives and pine nuts and sauté briefly. Add the butter and milk and heat the mixture until just warm. Mash the steamed potatoes in a bowl with a potato masher. Mix in the olive and pine nut mixture and the basil. Season the mash with salt and pepper. The mash goes well with duck breast.