This ULTIMATE Potato Soup is packed with flavor and is comfort food at its finest! Load it up with cheese, bacon, and sour cream and enjoy a hearty meal!
I don’t know about you, but when the cooler weather heads my way, I love nothing more than wearing sweaters, making soups and stews, and having “in home, cozy” evenings! Well, living in Houston, I don’t get many of those, so when “Fall” hits, I just pretend the cooler weather is here and make soups/stews anyways!
I’m sure come January, I will be able to bring out the sweaters, but until then….my A/C runs and I make my soups, haha!
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Last week, I wanted to make a slow cooker recipe and decided to go through my pantry and refrigerator to see what I had.
I had potatoes, bacon, broth, and onion….so I knew potato soup would be just the thing to make! With a few changes to an older recipe I have, as well as combining a few changes from one I found….this one has now become our new favorite!
My kids, hubby, neighbor, and self all thought it was amazing! Incredibly flavorful and quite hearty!!
If you love good ol’ potato soup, look no further…this is the ULTIMATE recipe!!
Ingredients Needed:
½ lb bacon, cooked and crumbled
3 cups chicken broth
2 lbs Yukon gold potatoes, diced
1 yellow onion, diced
4 tbsp. bacon grease (you can also use butter if you don’t have any grease from the bacon)
⅓ cup flour
12 oz. evaporated milk
1 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
½ cup sour cream
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon black pepper
Toppings of choice: Additional crumbled bacon, sour cream, chives, green onions
If you’re wondering what to serve this soup with, I highly recommend a crusty bread or side salad! Perhaps even both! We love serving a bread item with ours because its so yummy dipping it in the soup and enjoying the bread/soup combo in every bite!!
ULTIMATE Potato Soup is a family favorite and one that everyone will enjoy! Perfect to warm you up on those cold Fall/Winter nights! Print the recipe below and be sure to give it a try!
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ULTIMATE Potato Soup
Ingredients
- ½ lb bacon *cooked/crumbled
- 3 cups chicken broth
- 2 lbs Yukon gold potatoes *diced
- 1 yellow onion *diced
- 4 tablespoon bacon grease *or butter
- ⅓ cup flour
- 12 oz evaporated milk
- 1 cup cheddar cheese *shredded
- ½ cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- toppings of choice (sour cream, cheese, bacon, jalapenos, chives, green onions, etc)
Instructions
- In your slow cooker, add the diced bacon, chicken broth, potatoes, and onion.
- Place lid on top and cook low for 6-7 hours or high for about 4 hours.
- Once the potatoes are tender and done, cook the bacon grease (or butter) in a small saucepan over medium heat.
- Whisk in the flour and continue stirring for about 1 minute.
- Slowly pour in the evaporated milk and continue to simmer for about 3-4 minutes, or until mixture gets really thick.
- Pour milk mixture immediately into slow cooker and stir to combine.
- Add in the cheese, sour cream, salt, and pepper stirring once more until all is well combined.
- Serve with toppings of choice!
Nutrition
Recipe updated 10/12/21
Karen Fein says
I need to know if the potato soup can be frozen
Kristin says
Absolutely! Freezes perfectly!
Joyce says
I don’t have a slow cooker and
can’t afford one and every recipe
I want to make says cooked in slow cooker
like your ultimate potato soup. Can you please
give other choices on how to cook with
instructions how to cook on stove top. Love to try
your recipes they look so good. Please
Oh what does website mean at bottom
of page??
Jackie Woods says
I have a question. My daughter not eat pork, so what should i use?
Kristin says
Hmmm, you can actually omit the bacon entirely from this and make it vegetarian if desired!!