Potato Soup is a delicious, warming dish that will keep you warm on those chilly days. Made with potatoes and onion in chicken broth this soup can be served as an appetizer or main course to fill hungry bellies!
Top it with Cheddar cheese and serve it alongside some warm crusty bread for the ultimate comfort food experience.
📝 Ingredients
For this comforting soup recipe, you need the following ingredients:
- Bacon
- Potatoes (I usually use russet potatoes.)
- Sweet onions or yellow onions
- Celery
- Green onions
- Carrots (I like to use carrot matchsticks.)
- Chicken broth
- Salt and black pepper
- Garlic cloves
- Dried basil
- Crushed red pepper
- Hot sauce
- Butter
- Heavy whipping cream
Garnish
- Cheddar cheese
- Sour cream
👩🏻🍳 How To Make Potato Soup
Begin by frying bacon in a large pot. I like to cook the bacon so that it is a little bit crisp yet still pliable.
While the bacon is cooking, start preparing the vegetables by washing and slicing the green onions and celery. My family does not like the texture of celery, so we leave it rather large so that we can easily find it and remove it from the soup later.
Remove the bacon from the pot, but leave the drippings in to help flavor the soup. At this point, I like to break the bacon into pieces and place it in the refrigerator. It will be used to garnish the soup.
Dice the onions, and slice the potatoes into small chunks.
Layer it all in a large chili or soup pot. When I say large, I mean HUGE.
On top of the vegetables, pour chicken broth and then add some hot sauce and spices.
Bring it to a simmer and then cover the soup and let it cook for a couple of hours.
After the soup has simmered for a couple of hours, remove the celery stalks.
Add the stick of butter and heavy whipping cream and allow to simmer for an additional 30 minutes.
To thicken it, carefully place an immersion blender in the pot and puree a small amount. (Note: while immersion blenders can be used in nonstick cookware, do not allow them to touch the bottom.) You could alternatively scoop out some of the hot soup and puree it in a blender.
Ladle pureed soup into bowls and garnish each bowl of soup with cheese, bacon bits, green onions, and sour cream if desired.
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📖 Recipe
Cheesy Potato Soup Recipe
Ingredients
- 12 ounces bacon
- 5 pounds potatoes
- 2 sweet onions
- 5 celery stalks
- 1 bunch green onions
- 1 bag carrot matchsticks
- 32 ounces chicken broth
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 2 teaspoons black pepper
- 3 garlic cloves
- 3 ½ teaspoons dried basil
- 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 5 teaspoons hot sauce
- 1 stick of butter
- 1 pint heavy whipping cream
Garnish
- 2 cups Cheddar cheese
- ½ cup sour cream
Instructions
- In Large Chili pot, cook bacon until brown and crisp. Remove from pot and allow to drain on paper towels. Once bacon has cooled, break or cut into pieces and refrigerate. .
- While bacon cooks, Peel potatoes and then cut into small cubes, about ½ inch in size.
- Dice onions and trim edges off of celery.
- Rinse green onions and cut off roots and top 1-2 inches. Chop into small pieces about ⅛ inch long. Reserve and refrigerate ½ cup for garnish.
- Once bacon has finished cooking, on top of bacon drippings add potatoes, bag of carrots, onions, celery, and green onions. Add chicken broth to pot.
- Add spices and hot sauce and bring pot to low boil over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to low and allow to simmer for 1 ½ hours.
- Remove celery stalks.
- Add the stick of butter and heavy whipping cream and allow to simmer for an additional 30 minutes.
- Using an immersion blender, carefully puree soup mixture for a few seconds – until it has a creamy texture and appearance.
- Ladle soup into bowls and garnish with cheese, bacon, green onions, and sour cream if desired.
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I would start by making potato soup. Please do not be offended, but I would use my mother’s recipe. She’s made this for me all my life and it’s my #1 comfort food. it’s time I started making it myself.
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Potato Soup is my favorite winter-time soup. The only problem is that I eat way too much of it when I make it. I’m going to try your recipe. One can never have too many potato soup recipes.
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This looks so, so good and it’s the perfect season to put up this post! I’m not just saying that because I’m stopping by to comment…I’ve actually pinned this and am buying the ingredients to make it…as in, TONIGHT lol
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April @ Everyday Fitness and Nutrition says
I love a good potato soup but haven’t found a recipe that I just love yet. I’ll have to give this one a shot.
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Eileen says
I could totally go for some of that potato soup today! It’s just so chilly today! Thanks for sharing!
HilLesha says
I love almost anything with potatoes in it, so naturally I love potato soup. It’s one of my favorite soups! I haven’t had it for awhile, but that shall change . . . soon!
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That looks yummy and I don’t even eat potato soup! Your pictures are gorgeous.
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This sounds so good! A nice thick hearty soup like this is PERFECT for winter weather.
Fi Ní Neachtáin says
I love soup this time of year. This one looks delicious, I love potato soup!
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Mary W says
Surprisingly this is the one soup that I never made. I thought it was hard but not after seeing this. I think I just might make this next week. It would definitely be a great soup for this chilly weather.
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There is nothing more delicious than potato soup. I love leaving on warm in the crock pot on a cold day and eating it whenever I’m hungry.
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Omg this looks do yummy!!! Potato soup is one of my favorites!!!
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Omgoodness that potato soup looks amazing! I am not sure why, but I have never made any before. I do love my mother’s though. I am so going to make this for my family! Thank you for sharing it!
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That soup looks heavenly! I need a big pot like that one. I have stock pots but they’re all thin.
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Looks amazing! I was just thinking of making soup and now I think I know what I want! I am a fan of soup with potatoes… but you add in cheese and bacon and that makes it magical.
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Despite the weather being pleasant, I just can’t seem to get warm today. I’d love to try your potato soup recipe & warm myself up! I also really enjoy making corn chowder, but haven’t in ages!
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I love potato soup – it’s one of my favorites. I so need to borrow this recipe. Looks amazing!
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I would definitely make your Potato Soup in the chili pot. That soup looks amazing!
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I think chili is what I use my large pot for most often. However your potato soup sounds incredible, so I may need to go that route!
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Potato soup is my all-time favorite. Never made it from scratch, but now I want to!
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