Loaded Potato Soup. Browse Our Collection Of Simple Potato Soup Recipes and Prepare Yummy Meals! 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.
Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Stir in bacon crumbles, reserved bacon drippings, flour, salt, and pepper. Next, add the potatoes, scallions, and a little salt and bring the liquid to a a boil. You can cook Loaded Potato Soup using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Loaded Potato Soup
- It's 1 of yellow potatoes.
- Prepare 1 of red potatoes.
- You need 1/2 of velveeta cheese.
- Prepare 1 of chicken bouillon.
- You need 1 can of cream of potato soup.
- It's 3 tsp of dehydrated onion or fresh onion.
- You need 1 of salt.
- You need 1 of pepper.
- It's 1 dash of parsley.
- It's 1 of shredded cheese (colby jack).
- It's 1 of real bacon bits/pieces.
- It's 1/2 cup of corn starch.
Once the potatoes are cooked, stir in the shredded cheese and sour cream. Then season to taste with salt and pepper. Thick, creamy loaded potato soup topped with all the fixings! This quick and easy one-pot recipe is a cold weather staple!
Loaded Potato Soup instructions
- cube both kind of potatoes (leave skin or peel).
- boil potatoes with chicken bouillon and onion added, until potatoes are tender (too long will be like mashed potatoes, so watch it).
- drain less than half of the water (allow potatoes to be slightly covered with water).
- place back on stove so it can continue to boil.
- separately, mix about half a cup of cornstarch with less than half a cup of cold water (so it is not too watery or pastey).
- pour cornstarch mixture into the boiling potato water.
- add cream of potato soup and cubed velveeta.
- add salt, pepper, and parsley to desired taste.
- serve in a bowl topped with shredded cheese (colby jack) and real bacon bits/pieces.
It's a classic just like our chicken noodle soup, minestrone soup and tortilla soup. With all the flavor of a loaded baked potato, this recipe has cheese, sour cream bacon and more to make it a family favorite. Scoop out the potato pulp from the skins and add to the milk mixture. Mash with the back of a wooden spoon leaving it a little bit chunky. Add the cooked bacon (leaving a little out for garnishing.