Perfect Loaded Potato Soup Food

LOADED POTATO SOUP

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.

PERFECT POTATO SOUP

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.

LOADED POTATO SOUP I

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.

LOADED POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• 1. Boil potatoes until tender but still firm, drain, and set aside.
• 2. While potatoes boil, heat stock pot or dutch oven over medium heat, add diced bacon, and cook until bacon is nearly crisp.
• 3. Add onion and cook until translucent (or lightly browned, if using dried onions). Remove bacon and onion to a small dish.
• 4. Add butter to bacon drippings in pan. (If you're feeling virtuous you can clean the bacon drippings out of the pan and just use the butter, but it really does add something wonderful to the flavor if you leave it in.) When butter is melted, gradually whisk in flour and a bit of the milk to form a roux. Cook while whisking constantly until lightly browned and free of lumps,.
• 5. Add remaining milk, water, chicken bouillion, and garlic salt. Cook over medium heat for 15-20 minutes, or until slightly thickened.
• 6. Add cooked potatoes to broth.Cook additional 15-20 minutes.
• 7. Remove from heat and cool slightly. Mix in sour cream, bacon, and cheddar cheese. (If you add the dairy while the soup is too hot, it will curdle.) Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
• 8. Serve immediately or transfer to crock pot on warm to serve later in the day. I serve it with additional cheese, bacon bits, and scallions for garnish.

LOADED POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Layer sliced potatoes in a lightly greased 6 quart slow cooker; top with chopped onions.
• Stir together chicken broth, salt, and pepper; pour over potatoes and onion. Broth will not completely cover potatoes and onion. Cover and cook on HIGH 3-5 hours or until potatoes are tender.
• Mash mixture with a potato masher; stir in half and half. Cover and cook on HIGH 20 more minutes or until mixture is thoroughly heated.
• Ladle into bowls, and serve with toppings of shredded Cheddar, crumbled bacon, green onion slices.

THE ULTIMATE LOADED BAKED POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Fry the bacon in the bottom of a large dutch oven or heavy bottomed pot.
• Once the bacon is done, remove and set a side (chopp for garnish once it cools).
• Add the onion and garlic to the bacon fat left in the pot and sautee until the onions are translucent (medium-low heat so that the garlic does not burn).
• Wisk the flour into the onions and garlic mixture while in the pot and cook for an additional few minutes to cook out the flour.
• Slowly wisk in the chicken broth and heavy whipping cream.
• Add in the potatoes. Bring it to a boil then reduce to a low heat and cook until the potatos are tender.
• Add salt and pepper to taste and blend everything together with a hand blender (or you can blend it in batches in a regular blender).
• Turn off the heat (makes sure the heat is off or the sour cream will curdle) and add the cheddar cheese and sour cream and mix it all together.
• Serve topped with the chopped bacon, cheddar cheese, sour cream and sliced scallions.

SUPER EASY LOADED POTATO SOUP

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.

LOADED POTATO SOUP!!

Steps:

• Cook bacon in oven at 350 until crisp set aside (keep drippings).
• Boil potatoes and onions in chicken stock until tender.
• In a separate pan put bacon grease and butter mix with flour to form a roux.
• When roux is cooked to remove flour taste add milk slowly and stir to thicken.
• While thickening the milk mash half of the potatoes add bacon crumbles and continue to cook on low heat.
• When milk mixture is thickened add to potatoes and stir to incorporate.
• Season to taste add about 3 dollops of sour cream and a handful of cheddar cheese.
• Top with green onions, sour cream and bacon.

LOADED POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Place potatoes and onion in water until covered and boil until potatoes are tender. Drain and set aside. Melt butter in Large pot over medium heat. Whisk in flour until smooth, then gradually stir in milk. Bring to a boil, and simmer for about 5 minutes until slightly thickened. Add potatoes and onions that you set aside. Stir in sour cream and cheddar cheese. Season with salt and pepper. Once your cheese and sour cream has melted remove from heat and serve.

COOKING LIGHT LOADED POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Pierce potatoes with a fork.
• Microwave on high 13 minutes or until tender.
• Cut in half and cool slightly.
• While potatoes cook, heat oil in a saucepan over medium-high heat.
• Add onion and saute 3 minutes.
• Add broth.
• Combine flour and 1/2 cup milk.
• Add to pan with 1 1/2 cups milk.
• Bring to a boil and stir often.
• Cook 1 minute.
• Remove from heat and stir in sour cream, salt, and pepper.
• Arrange bacon on a paper towel on microwave-safe plate.
• Cover with a paper towel and microwave on high for 4 minutes.
• Crumble bacon.
• Discard potato skins.
• Coarsely mash potatoes into soup.
• Top with cheese, green onions, and bacon.

PERFECT LOADED POTATO SOUP

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.