Cheesy Ham and Potato soup
Cheesy Ham and Potato soup

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, cheesy ham and potato soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Cheesy Ham and Potato soup is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Cheesy Ham and Potato soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

Combine potatoes, celery, carrots, onion, ham, and water/broth in stockpot and bring to boil. Then cook over medium heat until potatoes Stir the cheese mixture into the stockpot and cook until heated through. (I also will break up some of the potatoes for thickness. It gets thicker as it cools.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook cheesy ham and potato soup using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Cheesy Ham and Potato soup:
  1. Get 1/2 lb bacon
  2. Prepare 3 each potatoes diced
  3. Take 1 small onion diced
  4. Prepare 1 large carrot diced
  5. Take 1 each celery rib diced
  6. Take 4 tbsp bacon grease
  7. Get 4 tbsp flour
  8. Take 2 cup chicken broth
  9. Get 1 1/2 cup ham diced(or more)
  10. Prepare 1/2 tsp sea salt
  11. Get 1/2 tsp black pepper
  12. Prepare 8 oz shredded cheddar cheese
  13. Make ready 1 cup heavy cream

With potatoes, ham, cheese, scallions, and yummy spices, this soup is FULL of flavor! We tend to have leftover ham after holidays like Christmas It takes a little more time than our other Potato soup, but it tastes PHENOMENAL. I feel like this one was a little more cheesy and hearty with the ham. Recipe to make with leftover ham!

Instructions to make Cheesy Ham and Potato soup:
  1. Cook bacon in a large frying pan. Crumble and set aside. Save bacon grease.
  2. While the bacon is cooking: in a 5 qt dutch oven, or similar size soup or stock pot, cover diced potatoes with water and boil till desired tenderness(about 15 mins). Save 1 and 1/2 cups of water from the cooked potatoes and drain.
  3. After bacon is cooked, remove bacon from pan. Keep 4 tbls(I just kept all the grease in the pan from cooking the half pound of bacon) bacon grease in frying pan and add onion, celery, carrot and cook for about 10 minutes or until onions are translucent.
  4. Transfer cooked veggies and bacon grease to the empty soup pot that the potatoes were in.
  5. Add the 4 tbls flour to the veggies and stir to dissolve flour completely. Cook about 3 mins. (You may want to add a little more flour or bacon grease depending on consistency, but 4 n 4 works well)
  6. Slowly add the saved water from the potatoes to the pot while stirring to combine. The mixture should be quite thick.
  7. Add the chicken broth, ham, salt, pepper, cooked potatoes and crumbled bacon and return to simmer. Stir well to combine the liquids.
  8. Slowly (about a handful at a time) add cheese, let melt a little then stir in. Repeat untill all cheese added and melted.
  9. Add heavy cream and stir to combine.
  10. Return to simmer and cook 5 to 20 mins.
  11. Enjoy! Top with what you like. (Cheese, bacon, green onions, croutons, etc) Or enjoy as is. I like some cheese garlic croutons on mine.

Most any kind of potatoes will work in this recipe, so use whatever you like best, or happen to have on hand. You'll definitely want to tuck this recipe away so it's handy when you have holiday leftovers. A classic potato soup, made with bacon drippings, cubed ham, onion, celery and milk, and finished with cheese. It's a variation of my Grandma's Homemade Potato Soup, this one starting with a little bacon and drippings, and adds in some cubed, baked ham and cheese! Add potatoes, ham, garlic powder and pepper and stir to combine.

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