Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, loaded baked potato soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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This recipe for potato soup includes bacon, onion, ham, sour cream, cheddar cheese, green onions—and plenty of potatoes, of course. Use a high-starch variety of baking potato, also known as a russet, for this recipe, to ensure that your loaded potato soup has a hearty body and a creamy texture. When done, the tip of a paring knife should go through the potatoes easily.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have loaded baked potato soup using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Loaded Baked Potato Soup:

1. Get 1 lb bacon, diced
2. Prepare 1 onion, diced
3. Take 5 large russet potatoes, peeled and cubed
4. Make ready 4 cup chicken stock
5. Get 3 tbs butter
6. Make ready 3 tbs flour
7. Get 1 1/2 cup 2% milk
8. Prepare 3 green onions, sliced
9. Take 3/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese, divided
10. Take 1/2 tsp black pepper
11. Make ready Sour cream for garnish, optional

I try to use left over baked potatoes to save some time. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate; set aside. This soup incorporates pre-baked cubes of potato with onion, crumbled bacon, cheddar cheese and sour cream in a milk soup base which has been thickened with a roux. How to Make Creamy Potato Soup: Place potatoes in a pot, cover with water, season with salt and cook until tender then drain.

Instructions to make Loaded Baked Potato Soup:

1. In a large stock pot, cook bacon until crisp. Remove with a slotted spoon to drain and set aside. Drain all but 2 tablespoons of bacon grease from the pot. Cook the onions in the remaining bacon grease for about 5 minutes, until tender.
2. Add potatoes and chicken stock to pot. Bring to boil, reduce heat to medium and simmer about 20 minutes, until potatoes are tender. With a slotted spoon, remove a few scoops of potatoes. Place in a bowl and mash with a fork. Set aside.
3. In a small sauce pan, melt butter. Stir in flour and cook for 2 minutes. Whisk in milk, bring to boil and simmer until thickened. Slowly stir into stock pot. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and simmer. Stir mashed potatoes back into pot.
4. Add 1/2 cup shredded cheese, three-fourths of the bacon and half the sliced green onions to the pot. Add pepper. Stir to combine. Cook an additional 5 minutes.
5. To serve, ladle soup into individual bowls and top with some shredded cheese, bacon, green onions and optional sour cream.

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