Recipe: Cancer Fighting Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Cancer Fighting Garlic Mashed Potatoes
My version of mashed potatoes will pack a punch when it comes to flavor, while preventing and fighting cancer, by serving up important phytonutrients. Make this a regular recipe in your house, and be sure to serve it for Thanksgiving for your extended family and friends!

Ingredients:
2 pounds gold potatoes, diced (NOT PEELED) (~5 cups)
1 medium cauliflower, florets and peeled stem roughly chopped (~5 cups)
1-2 TBSP reduced sodium soy sauce
2 scallions, chopped
8-10 large cloves of roasted garlic (or 2 tsp granulated garlic powder)
½ cup reduced sodium vegetable broth
ground black (or white) pepper – to taste
½ tsp salt (optional)
2-4 TBSP almond or soy milk – original – not vanilla – (optional)

Procedure:
Over a pot of boiling water, steam cauliflower and potato until tender (~10 minutes). Puree cauliflower, roasted garlic and broth in food processor. Mash potatoes with a potato masher, add cauliflower mixture, 1 TBSP soy sauce, scallions and a few shakes of black pepper. Taste and add 1/2 – 1 tsp granulated garlic, up to 1 TBSP more soy sauce or 1/2 tsp salt, if needed. Mix well with potato masher and add a few tablespoons of original almond milk or soy milk, if desired. Recipe makes ~ 8 cups!  Enjoy with my Immune System Boosting Rich Gravy!

These mashed potatoes and gravy are sure to be enjoyed by everyone!

Timaree Hagenburger, a plant-based registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN), certified exercise physiologist with a master’s degree in public health, has over 20 years of experience as a nutrition professor. She is a sought after speaker, media personality and author, who works with private clients, and in corporate wellness, has contributed to several cookbooks and published her own cookbook, The Foodie Bar Way: One Meal, Lots of Options, Everyone’s Happy (www.foodiebars.com)! Timaree is also the founder of an incredible online membership community, The Foodie Bar Way of Life, that makes loving the food (and living a life) that loves us back… simple, satisfying, sustainable AND FUN! You can contact her about working with her through 1:1 dietitian nutrition coaching, for hands-on cooking instruction and to inquire about arranging a speaking engagement.