Skinny Mashed Potatoes

I had this great plan that I would prepare an entire meal that my kids could enjoy for Thanksgiving, low-fat everything that was actually good... Well, that didn't happen. I had to work Thanksgiving and then the schedule was just crazy it was impossible to do it another day.  One thing that is a Thanksgiving staple that we do eat for dinner on occasion is mashed potatoes! So I wanted to share the recipe here and maybe next year I will have more recipes to share. 

What do you put in mashed potatoes normally? Potatoes, milk & butter...  Milk is easy you can use skim and call it a day but butter? The lowest fat content I can find in butter is 4 grams in 1 tablespoon. Most recipes call for 2 tablespoons of butter so it wouldn't be too bad except for those with LCHAD that are limited (most can only have 10-15 grams of fat a day) and then mix it in with everything else you eat that has fat in it.  

I don't remember where I found the original recipe, and I just eyeball ingredients but I found Campbell's Recipe which is exactly the same so I am just going to use their measurements. 

Picture from Campbellskitchen.com

Ingredients: 

- 5 large potatoes, cut into 1 inch pieces 

- 3.5 cups of Fat Free Swanson Chicken Broth

 1. Add potatoes and chicken broth in 4 quart saucepan, bring to a boil, cook on medium heat. Cook until tender. Remove potatoes from chicken broth (saving the chicken broth for later use) 

2. Mash the potatoes with 1 1/4 cup of leftover broth. Add more for desired consistency. 

The chicken broth has 0g fat and potatoes have 0.2g in 1 medium potato, depending on the size of your potatoes this side dish has around 1 gram of fat for the entire dish!