Recipe: Yummy Loaded Potato Soup

Loaded Potato Soup. 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. A soup to make you happy.

When cool, crumble and set aside for garnish. In a large skillet, saute onions in butter until tender. Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. You can cook Loaded Potato Soup using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Loaded Potato Soup

1. It's of yellow potatoes.
2. Prepare of red potatoes.
3. You need of velveeta cheese.
4. Prepare of chicken bouillon.
5. Prepare of cream of potato soup.
6. Prepare of dehydrated onion or fresh onion.
7. It's of salt.
8. Prepare of pepper.
9. You need of parsley.
10. Prepare of shredded cheese (colby jack).
11. Prepare of real bacon bits/pieces.
12. You need of corn starch.

Stir in bacon crumbles, reserved bacon drippings, flour, salt, and pepper. Russet potatoes: Plain old "baking potatoes" are the best for this soup because they have more starch. Some cooks make the soup with frozen shredded hash brown potatoes, too. Sour cream: Baked potato soup tastes just as good with heavy cream or an equal amount of cream cheese.

Loaded Potato Soup step by step

1. cube both kind of potatoes (leave skin or peel).
2. boil potatoes with chicken bouillon and onion added, until potatoes are tender (too long will be like mashed potatoes, so watch it).
3. drain less than half of the water (allow potatoes to be slightly covered with water).
4. place back on stove so it can continue to boil.
5. 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).
6. pour cornstarch mixture into the boiling potato water.
7. add cream of potato soup and cubed velveeta.
8. add salt, pepper, and parsley to desired taste.
9. serve in a bowl topped with shredded cheese (colby jack) and real bacon bits/pieces.

Keep warm in the slow cooker: Get the soup ready on the stove, then keep it warm for company in the crockpot. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate and let cool, then crumble. Loaded Potato Soup Recipe There are few foods as comforting on a Southerner's table as a bowl of creamy potato soup. Perfect for chilly nights, busy weekdays, or even an after-church lunch, this easy potato soup recipe puts the slow cooker to work. When done, the tip of a paring knife should go through the potatoes easily.