Potato Soup With Crispy Bacon Food

BACON AND POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Cook bacon in a large stockpot over medium heat until crispy.
• Add onion and cook 4-5 minutes, until tender.
• Add salt and pepper, thyme sprig, rosemary sprigs, and bay leaf.
• Add potatoes and garlic, and mix well with bacon and onions.
• Add stock or water and bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes, or until potatoes are tender.
• Add cream and mustard; stir to blend.
• Remove bayleaf and purée about 1/2 of the soup in a blender.
• Mix blended soup with the rest of the soup.
• Adjust seasonings.
• To serve, ladle soup into bowls and top with chopped scallions.

EASY CREAMY, CHEESY POTATO SOUP W/ CRISP BACON

Steps:

• In a 3-qt sauce pan, combine potatoes, water, regular salt, and pepper.
• NOTE: If using real, uncooked potatoes, bring to a boil, cover and simmer for 10 mins, until potatoes are tender.
• If using canned potatoes, bring to soft boil.
• Turn down heat to medium.
• Gradually add soup and milk, stirring constantly.
• Add onions, garlic, Johnny's seasoning salt, and dashes of hot sauce, and allow to cook, while stirring, for 5 minutes.
• Stir in sour cream, bacon, and parsley, and heat thru.
• Top with additional pepper and cheese.

POTATO SOUP WITH CRISPY BACON

Steps:

• Heat 2 teaspoons of oil over high heat and add 4 rashers of bacon and cook for 2-3 minutes or until crip and then set aside.
• Heat another 2 teaspoons of oil in the pan and add chopped brown onion and garlic and cook for 1 minute.
• Add potatoes, 2 sprigs thyme, chicken stock and water and bring to the boil and then reduce heat and simmer for 15-20 minutes.
• Blend until smooth and stir through cream.
• Divide into serving bowls and top with crispy bacon to serve.

BACON AND POTATO SOUP II

Steps:

• In a sauce pot, melt butter and cook onions gently.
• Add chicken broth, potatoes, and pepper. Cover and cook gently 20 to 25 minutes.
• Cool slightly.
• Puree half of the potato mixture at a time in a blender or food processor.
• Return to the pot and add milk and half and half. Reheat.
• Serve in bowls with crumbled bacon on top of soup.

BECCA'S POTATO BACON SOUP

Steps:

• Place cooked bacon in a large stockpot over medium-high heat; add potatoes, chicken broth, carrots, onion, parsley, celery seed, salt, and pepper. Bring mixture to a boil, cover stockpot with a lid, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer, stirring frequently and slightly mashing potatoes, until potatoes are fully cooked, at least 20 minutes. Add extra chicken broth if needed.
• Whisk milk and flour together in a bowl or measuring cup until frothy; slowly pour into soup while constantly stirring. Bring soup back to a simmer and cook until soup is thickened, 3 to 5 minutes.
• Remove soup from heat and stir in American cheese until completely melted. Ladle soup into serving bowls and garnish with green onions.

LOADED BACON-CHEESEBURGER-POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir ground beef in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes. Drain, discard grease, and set aside.
• Meanwhile, place bacon in a 3-quart saucepan, and cook over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Remove crisped bacon with a slotted spoon and set on paper towels to drain. Leave bacon grease in the saucepan.
• Sauté carrots, celery, and onion in the bacon grease until vegetables are tender, about 10 minutes. Add broth, potatoes, and browned ground beef; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover, and simmer until potatoes are tender, 10 to 12 minutes.
• Meanwhile, wipe out the skillet you previously cooked the beef in. Melt butter in the skillet and whisk in flour; cook, stirring frequently, until bubbly, 3 to 5 minutes. Carefully whisk milk into flour-butter mixture until well combined and very smooth.
• Pour milk mixture into the soup, whisking to combine; bring to a boil and simmer for about 2 minutes. Add Cheddar cheese and stir until melted. Season with basil, parsley, salt, and pepper.
• Remove from heat. Ladle soup into bowls and sprinkle with bacon and additional shredded Cheddar cheese.

ABSOLUTELY ULTIMATE POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, cook the bacon over medium heat until done. Remove bacon from pan, and set aside. Drain off all but 1/4 cup of the bacon grease.
• Cook celery and onion in reserved bacon drippings until onion is translucent, about 5 minutes. Stir in garlic, and continue cooking for 1 to 2 minutes. Add cubed potatoes, and toss to coat. Saute for 3 to 4 minutes. Return bacon to the pan, and add enough chicken stock to just cover the potatoes. Cover, and simmer until potatoes are tender.
• In a separate pan, melt butter over medium heat. Whisk in flour. Cook, stirring constantly, for 1 to 2 minutes. Whisk in the heavy cream, tarragon, and cilantro. Bring the cream mixture to a boil, and cook, stirring constantly, until thickened. Stir the cream mixture into the potato mixture. Puree about 1/2 the soup, and return to the pan. Adjust seasonings to taste.

CRISP BACON & POTATO SOUP #SP5

Steps:

• In a large skillet fry the bacon crisp, remove and place on paper towels, pouring 1/2 the bacon fat off and St aside for rue later. Next, pour the bag of Simply Potatoes and onion into the skillet and brown cooking 1/2 way. Remove the potatoes and onion set aside. Replace the bacon fat you set aside earlier into the pan add the flour and make a paste, add the chicken stock and stir until it thickens.
• In a large skillet fry the bacon crisp , remove the bacon and drain on paper towels and remove 1/2 the bacon fat and set aside later for rue.
• In a 2 quart pan replace the bacon fat you set aside earlier, and add the flour, making a paste, add in the chicken stock to thicken the soup slightly stirring until all paste is dissolved into stock.
• Pour the bag of Simply Potatoes with onion into the same skillet and brown cooking till tender, remove and set aside.
• Pour into the stock potatoes and onion along with 4 slices of the Applewood bacon that has been crumbled and chopped celantro. Heat to a boil for 10 minutes then turn off turn off. Salt and pepper to taste.
• Ladel into bowels crumble 1 slice of crisp Applewood bacon on top of each bowl garnish with a sprig of celantro.

BACON AND POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Cook bacon until crisp in 3-quart saucepan, remove and drain well on paper towels. Discard bacon grease and wipe pan thoroughly with paper towel.
• Meanwhile, prepare vegetables. Add olive oil to saucepan and add onion, carrot, and celery as they are cut up. Saute until onion is soft but not brown, about 3-4 minutes.
• Stir in chicken broth, potatoes, and pepper; bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer, covered, until potatoes are tender, about 10-15 minutes.
• Stir in cheese, heating just until melted--do not boil. Chop bacon and add to soup. Adjust seasoning to taste by adding salt, if desired. Serve at once.

VERY EASY POTATO BACON SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in saucepan over medium heat; cook and stir onion until lightly browned, about 10 minutes. Add potatoes, water, dill weed, salt, and pepper to onion; bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until potatoes are tender and water is almost all evaporated, at least 30 minutes.
• Stir milk and bacon bits into potato mixture; bring to a boil. Remove from heat and stir parsley into soup.