This easy potato recipe is budget-friendly, made with simple everyday ingredients, and comes together in just one hour making it the perfect crowd-pleasing side dish or comfort food fix. The crispy bacon and cheese breadcrumb topping is the finishing touch that takes humble mashed potato and transforms it into something extraordinary and delicious.
Ingredients
4 potatoes, peeled, cut into quarters and boiled until tender
½ cup milk
60g butter, plus extra for greasing
4 spring onions, finely chopped
1 cup grated cheddar cheese
2 rashers of bacon, finely chopped
1 large handful of fresh breadcrumbs
Salt and white pepper
Method
Set the oven to the grill function (high heat).
Drain cooked potatoes, mash with the milk, butter, salt, and pepper, then fold through the spring onions.
Combine the cheese, bacon and breadcrumbs.
Spoon mashed potato into a buttered baking dish and top with cheese mixture.