A side of intensely creamy, buttery, silky-smooth mashed potatoes is always going to be delicious, but there’s also plenty of scope for riffing on a classic. With that in mind, we’ve come up with 32 genius mashed potato–based ideas that we think everyone will love, whether you mix things up with sweet potato, upgrade mash with creative toppings, bake in loaded skins or turn the basic recipe into fish cakes or crispy croquettes.

Click or scroll through our gallery as we reveal 32 mashed potato recipe ideas, counting down to our favourite of them all.