Easiest Way to Make Delicious Easy Loaded Potato Soup

Easy Loaded Potato Soup. Make This Tasty Loaded Baked Potato Using Bush's® Beans. Save This Recipe To Your Board! This recipe for potato soup includes bacon, onion, ham, sour cream, cheddar cheese, green onions—and plenty of potatoes, of course.

Cheese, crisp bacon, scallions and of course hearty potatoes in a creamy savory sauce. Since two of us and our parents hail from the great state of Idaho, we know our way around potatoes. When done, the tip of a paring knife should go through the potatoes easily. You can have Easy Loaded Potato Soup using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Easy Loaded Potato Soup

1. You need of Frozen Oreida Cut Russet Potatoes.
2. You need of Milk.
3. You need of Flour.
4. It's of Butter.
5. It's of Bacon.
6. It's of Sour Cream.
7. It's of Green Onions.
8. Prepare of Shredded Cheese.
9. It's of Salt & Pepper.

In a large stock pot, place butter over medium-low heat. Once melted, add flour and whisk until smooth. Add milk one cup at a time and whisk continuously. Set a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat.

Easy Loaded Potato Soup step by step

1. Measure, chop and set aside your ingredients.
2. In a skillet cook the bacon and place on paper towel saving the bacon grease.
3. In a med. sized stock pot or sauce pan, pour in bacon grease and butter heating to medium.
4. Whisk in the flour to brown, cooking the flour for about 1.5 mintues.
5. You should now have a nice base/roux to start slowly adding your milk into.
6. Slowly add in your milk as the base thickens cooking for about 2 minutes, then add your potatoes and green onions and bring mixture to boil.
7. Reduce heat to low and simmer for about 15 minutes stirring constantly to prevent sticking.
8. Once the potatoes have become tender, add the sour cream, shredded cheese, salt & pepper and continue to let the pot simmer until the desired thickness of your soup is reached. You can add more milk to lighten the consistency.
9. Add a few pieces of crumbled bacon to the soup just before serving.
10. Once the bowls are filled, garnish with additional bacon crumbles, green onions and shredded cheese. ENJOY!.

When cool, crumble and set aside for garnish. Heat a large skillet over medium high heat. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate; set aside. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate and let cool, then crumble. Try this cheesy baked potato soup loaded with sour cream, bacon and cheddar cheese.