Cheesy Baked Potato And Bacon Soup Food

CHEESY POTATO SOUP WITH BACON

Steps:

• Chop scallions, separating green and white parts. Set aside.
• Cook bacon in a large Dutch oven over medium, stirring occasionally, until crispy, 10 to 15 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer to a plate lined with paper towels, leaving 2 tablespoons of bacon drippings in Dutch oven.
• Add potatoes, onion, butter, garlic, and white scallion pieces to Dutch oven, and cook over medium until onions are slightly softened, 5 to 6 minutes. Add flour, salt, and pepper, and stir until all ingredients are coated. Cook, stirring constantly, 1 minute. Stir in broth until combined. Bring mixture to a boil. Then reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer until potatoes are tender, about 12 minutes.
• Using a potato masher, lightly mash mixture, leaving some whole pieces of potato. Add white Cheddar and cream, stirring until cheese melts. Keep warm.
• Ladle soup into bowls. Top servings with bacon, green scallion pieces, and yellow Cheddar.

EASY CHEESY POTATO BACON SOUP

Steps:

• Add bacon pieces to a large pot. Turn heat to medium and cook until bacon is cooked through but only slightly crispy. Use a slotted spoon to transfer the bacon to a paper-towel lined plate and set aside.
• Spoon off and discard all but about 1 tablespoon of the bacon fat. Add onions and celery to the pot and cook over medium heat, stirring often and scraping any browned cooked-on bits from the bottom of the pan, for about 5 minutes, until the onions have just begun to turn translucent around the edges.
• Add potatoes and chicken broth to the pot. Bring to a simmer and then cook for 10 to 15 minutes, until potatoes can be easily smashed against the side of the pot with a fork.
• Use a potato masher or spatula to roughly smash about half of the potatoes in the pot.
• In a medium pot, over medium heat, melt butter and then add flour. Cook, whisking continuously, until flour begins to turn lightly golden, about 1 minute.
• Slowly drizzle in milk, whisking constantly as you go to whisk out any lumps. Cook, whisking continuously, until mixture is thickened and bubbly around the edges, about 5 minutes.
• Remove pot from heat and slowly whisk in cheese, a handful at a time. Once all your cheese is melted, stir the cheese sauce into the soup. Add pepper. Taste the soup and add salt if needed.
• Add about ¾ of the bacon to the soup (reserve ¼ for topping) and stir everything together.
• Ladle into bowls, top with sour cream, reserved bacon, sliced green onions, and more cheese if desired. Enjoy!

FULLY LOADED BAKED POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Place the potatoes on a roasting tray and bake for 45 minutes. When done, the tip of a paring knife should go through the potatoes easily.
• Slice the bacon into lardons (thin strips) and cook in a large, heavy-bottomed pot over medium heat until crisp. Remove the bacon from the pot with a slotted spoon and set aside, leaving the drippings in the pot.
• Add the flour to the drippings in the pot and stir to combine. Cook, without adding color, until the flour and fat has combined, about 1 minute. Pour in the milk while you whisk to incorporate. Cook over medium heat until bubbly and thickened, stirring frequently, about 15 minutes.
• 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 the soup), 1 cup of the cheese, and season well with salt and pepper. Stir until the cheese has melted. Remove from the heat.
• Ladle the soup into bowls, drizzle with sour cream (from a squeeze bottle), sprinkle with remaining bacon bits, grated cheese and chives.

CHEESE AND BACON SOUP

Steps:

• In a large heavy bottom soup pot cook bacon until browned and crisp.
• Remove and pour off 1/2 of the drippings.
• Cook the veggies over medium heat for around 5 minutes or until tender.
• Blendnd the flour, salt and pepper.
• Slowly stir in the half and half, milk and broth.
• Add 1/2 of the cooked bacon, crumbled.
• Cover and cook until thick and bubbly, stirring occasionally for 15 minutes.
• Add the cheese stirring untel melted and well blended.
• Crumble remaining bacon and garnish the soup.

CHEESY BAKED POTATO AND BACON SOUP

Steps:

• Bake the potatoes in the oven until fork-tender (about 1 hour) cool and remove the peel.
• Place the potatoes in a bowl and mash using a fork.
• Melt butter in a Dutch oven over medium heat; add in onion, garlic and celery (if using) saute until tender.
• Add in flour and cayenne and stir until smooth.
• Add in the mashed potatoes, half and half cream and milk; cook over low heat until thoroughly heated.
• Add in 3/4 cup grated cheddar cheese, 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese and half of the cooked crumbled bacon; stir until the cheese has melted and the soup is heated through.
• Season soup with salt and black pepper.
• Ladle into serving bowls; sprinkle with remaining crumbled bacon and more cheddar cheese or Parmesan cheese.

BAKED POTATO SOUP WITH BACON

Steps:

• Melt butter in large saucepan or Dutch oven on medium heat. Add yellow onions and celery; cook and stir 5 min. or until crisp-tender. Add next 4 ingredients; bring just to boil, stirring constantly. Lightly crush potatoes with back of spoon. Simmer on medium-low heat 5 min., stirring frequently.
• Reserve 1 Tbsp. green onions and 2 Tbsp. each bacon and cheese. Add remaining green onions, bacon and cheese to soup; cook 5 min. or until cheese is melted, stirring constantly.
• Serve topped with reserved green onions, bacon, cheese and sour cream.

BACON CHEDDAR POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Chop onions and celery, if using a food processor don't chop these too fine.
• In a large saucepan, sauté onion and celery in 4 ounces of butter until tender.
• Add potatoes and broth, bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes till potatoes are tender.
• In a small skillet, melt remaining 4 ounces of butter, add flour to make roux, cook roux over low heat until yellow blond in color and set aside.
• To cooked potato and broth mixture, add water, cream and roux stirring continuously until mixture thickens.
• Stir in the cheese, bacon bits, parsley, pepper and paprika.
• Cook over low heat until the cheese is melted, stir continuously and remove from heat when cheese is melted.
• Garnish with croutons, if desired.