Purple Majesty Fork-Crushed Potatoes - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 lb purple majesty potato, washed, scrubbed and peeled (cut in half or quartered depending on size)
    2 -3 shallots, peeled and minced
    3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil (cut in half-add more in you want)
    2 tablespoons flat leaf parsley, chopped (curly parsley ok)
    fleur de sel, to taste
    cracked white pepper or cracked black pepper, to taste
    2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
Preparation
    Note: If you prefer, the potatoes can be boiled first in their skin then peeled.
    Bring a large pot of salted water to boil and cook the potatoes until tender, approximately 25 minutes.
    Drain.
    Place the potatoes back in the pot and using a fork, mash the potatoes.
    Fold in the remaining ingredients, sprinkling the lemon juice on top of the potatoes last.
    Did you notice what happened? The citric acid in the lemon juice \"bleached\" some areas of the potatoes a \"lighter and brighter\" shade of purple! Nifty, huh?!
    This concludes this week's science experiment.

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