Recipe: Tasty 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 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Loaded Potato Soup

1. You need of Chicken Stock.
2. Prepare of Thick Cut Bacon.
3. It's of Potatoes.
4. Prepare of Green Onions.
5. Prepare of garlic.
6. You need of dried thyme.
7. You need of Morton Nature Seasoning.
8. Prepare of Adobo Powder.
9. It's of Black Pepper.
10. Prepare of Sour Cream.
11. Prepare of Heavy Cream.
12. It's of Sharp Cheddar Cheese.

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. Peel & cut up the potatoes, garlic & the green onions then put to the side for later (make sure to keep bottoms of green onions separate from tops).
2. Cook all the bacon & then cut it up into bits. Take the bacon grease & pour it into your cooking pot..
3. Add the garlic & green onions to the grease pot & let them cook over low heat for 5-8 minutes just to release the aroma not to brown..
4. Add the chicken stock, potatoes & dried ingredients and bring the pot to a boil. Once boiling, let it sit there for 5-10 minutes making sure to stir..
5. Add all the dairy & 8oz of the bacon then reduce to a simmer for 25-35 minutes then blend together (immersion blender recommended but any blender will do). Serve topped with sour cream, cheese, bacon bits & green onion tops..

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. Thick, creamy loaded potato soup topped with all the fixings! This quick and easy one-pot recipe is a cold weather staple! It's a classic just like our chicken noodle soup, minestrone soup and tortilla soup.