Perfect Loaded Potato Soup Recipes

Steps:

• Place cubed potatoes into a glass dish, and cook in the microwave oven for 7 to 10 minutes, or until soft.
• While the potatoes are cooking, melt the butter in a large pot over medium-high heat. Whisk in flour until smooth, then gradually stir in the milk. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium, and simmer for 5 to 10 minutes, or until slightly thickened.
• Stir in the potatoes and onion, and cook for 5 more minutes. Stir in the sour cream and Cheddar cheese until melted and well blended. Season with salt and pepper.

Steps:

• Place potatoes into a large pot and cover with water; bring to a boil. Cook until fork-tender, about 10 minutes. Drain.
• Place bacon in a large saucepan and cook over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until crispy, about 8 minutes. Drain bacon slices on paper towels. Pour out bacon grease.
• Melt butter in the saucepan over medium heat, scraping the bottom of the pan with a flat-edged wooden spoon. Add celery, onion, carrots, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper; cook and stir until tender, about 10 minutes. Sprinkle in flour; cook and stir for 2 minutes.
• Pour half-and-half and chicken broth into the saucepan. Add potatoes, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon pepper, thyme, cayenne pepper, and nutmeg. Bring to a boil, stirring frequently. Stir in bacon pieces. Reduce heat and simmer, stirring often, until flavors combine, about 10 minutes.
• Ladle into serving bowls. Garnish with 1/2 teaspoon pepper, green onions, and paprika.

Steps:

• Add the bacon pieces to a soup pot over medium heat and cook until crisp and the fat is rendered. Remove the bacon from the pot and set it aside. Pour off most of the grease, but do not clean the pot.
• Return the pot to medium-high heat and add the carrots, celery and onions. Stir and cook for 2 minutes or so, then add the diced potatoes. Cook for 5 minutes, seasoning with the Cajun spice, 1/2 teaspoon salt and some pepper. Pour in the broth and bring it to a gentle boil. Cook until the potatoes are starting to get tender, about 10 minutes. Whisk together the milk and flour, then pour the mixture into the soup and allow the soup to cook for another 5 minutes.
• Remove about half of the soup and blend in a blender or food processor until completely smooth. Pour it back into the soup pot and stir to combine. Let it heat back up as you taste for seasoning, adding more of what it needs. Stir in the cream, then the parsley,
• Serve in bowls garnished with the grated cheese and crisp bacon pieces. The soup can also be frozen.

Steps:

• Set a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add the bacon and cook until crispy, 6 to 8 minutes; remove to a plate. When cool, crumble and set aside for garnish.
• Add the onions and garlic to the pot, and cook in the rendered bacon grease until softened, 4 to 5 minutes. Add the flour and some salt and pepper, and stir until combined. Cook for 3 minutes, so the raw flour taste cooks out. Add the chicken broth and heavy cream, whisking to remove any flour lumps. Add the potatoes and cook over medium heat until tender, about 10 minutes.
• With a potato masher, break up the cooked potatoes¿this will yield a thick and chunky consistency. Whisk in sour cream and then the shredded cheddar; let it melt through.
• Serve garnished with crispy crumbled bacon and sliced scallions.

Steps:

• Peel and chop potatoes into cubes.
• Put potatoes into a large pot.
• Add 32 oz container of chicken stock.
• Add water until the potatoes are covered with liquid.
• Add the whole yellow onion and minced garlic.
• Clean the green onions removing the tips from each end.
• Add the whole green onions to the pot.
• Cook the bacon in the microwave.
• Add the whole slices of bacon.
• Bring the pot of ingredients to a soft boil stirring occasionally.
• Once the potatoes are cooked (can easily cut a potato with a fork), remove the yellow and green onions and bacon from the pot.
• Add one or two sticks of butter, 8 oz sour cream, cream of chicken soup and 1 cup heavy cream.
• Stir until blended.
• Add bag of shredded cheese.
• Stir until blended.
• Add salt, parsley, paprika, and peppers. Add more to taste.
• Serve with a little sour cream, shredded cheese, or crumbled bacon on top.

Steps:

• In large soup pot, fry bacon to crisp. Set aside bacon. Reserve grease in the pot (about 1 tablespoon; discard excess).
• Add butter to the bacon grease.
• Cook the onion, celery, carrot, and leek in the butter/grease mixture until fairly tender.
• In a small bowl, mix the flour, salt, pepper, paprika, dried mustard, and thyme. Add to the tender vegetables/butter/grease mixture in the pot. Stir constantly for 1-2 minutes.
• Add milk. Stir constantly until thickened (about 5 minutes).
• Add potatoes and stock. Add enough stock so that it covers the vegetables and has some extra liquid.
• Simmer gently until the vegetables are all tender. Stir frequently to avoid the milk/etc from sticking.
• When vegetables are tender, remove about a third to half of the soup (or however much you like it, depending on how smooth you like your soup) and blend until smooth. Return to pot. Stir.
• Remove from heat. Add cheese. Stir to melt.
• Adjust salt & seasonings.
• Serve. Garnish each bowl with bacon and a dollop of sour cream and a sprinkle of chives.