Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, loaded baked potato soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
View the latest menu with prices. This recipe for potato soup includes bacon, onion, ham, sour cream, cheddar cheese, green onions—and plenty of potatoes, of course. Use a high-starch variety of baking potato, also known as a russet, for this recipe, to ensure that your loaded potato soup has a hearty body and a creamy texture.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have loaded baked potato soup using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Loaded Baked Potato Soup:
- Prepare 1 lb bacon, diced
- Prepare 1 onion, diced
- Prepare 5 large russet potatoes, peeled and cubed
- Make ready 4 cup chicken stock
- Get 3 tbs butter
- Take 3 tbs flour
- Take 1 1/2 cup 2% milk
- Get 3 green onions, sliced
- Take 3/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese, divided
- Take 1/2 tsp black pepper
- Get Sour cream for garnish, optional
Heat a large skillet over medium high heat. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate; set aside. It is always the first soup I make of the year. I try to use left over baked potatoes to save some time.
Steps to make Loaded Baked Potato Soup:
- In a large stock pot, cook bacon until crisp. Remove with a slotted spoon to drain and set aside. Drain all but 2 tablespoons of bacon grease from the pot. Cook the onions in the remaining bacon grease for about 5 minutes, until tender.
- Add potatoes and chicken stock to pot. Bring to boil, reduce heat to medium and simmer about 20 minutes, until potatoes are tender. With a slotted spoon, remove a few scoops of potatoes. Place in a bowl and mash with a fork. Set aside.
- In a small sauce pan, melt butter. Stir in flour and cook for 2 minutes. Whisk in milk, bring to boil and simmer until thickened. Slowly stir into stock pot. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and simmer. Stir mashed potatoes back into pot.
- Add 1/2 cup shredded cheese, three-fourths of the bacon and half the sliced green onions to the pot. Add pepper. Stir to combine. Cook an additional 5 minutes.
- To serve, ladle soup into individual bowls and top with some shredded cheese, bacon, green onions and optional sour cream.
I also like to mash some of the potatoes and leave some chunked to get a better consistency. This soup incorporates pre-baked cubes of potato with onion, crumbled bacon, cheddar cheese and sour cream in a milk soup base which has been thickened with a roux. This slow cooker potato soup has the same ingredients as loaded baked potatoes–russet potatoes, bacon, Cheddar cheese, sour cream, and scallions–but is delivered in soup form! This loaded baked potato soup is everything you love about a baked potato with your favorite toppings! This is also a great recipe for using up leftover cooked potatoes or even vegetables or ham.
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