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I am a potato fiend. Whatever form they’re in (mashed, roasted, boiled, baked, fried…), they’re undoubtedly my favourite part of a meal. I’ll quite happily eat them cold too, so don’t you go thinking those leftover roasties are safe…
Buuut, although potatoes are far from nutritionless (they contain plenty of vitamin C, potassium and vitamin B6, for example), they’re not really the best thing to fill your plate with day after day. So in an effort to inject a bit more goodness into my favourite mash, I decided to make it with white beans instead.
I never intended for this white bean mash to imitate mashed potatoes at all (it was meant to be merely an alternative, not an impersonator), but actually it was a really good likeness!…
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