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It doesn’t get any more frugal than potatoes, and it doesn’t get any more comforting than potato soup. Just the thing for when winter lingers and it seems like summer will never come.
Potatoes are a great thing to stock up on when you see them on sale (especially organic!) as they last pretty well in a cool, dark place. This recipe is a great way to use up the leftovers from a baked-potato-bar-dinner (which, by the way, is a great way to feed a big family or a bunch of hungry friends). Since baking potatoes isn’t tough, you might as well bake up a whole ton for dinner and plan on using the leftover potatoes for soup. That’s what I did, and I think I enjoyed the soup more than the original dinner.
Loaded Baked Potato Soup
Ingredients:
6 large organic Yukon Gold potatoes, baked
1/2 c butter
3 T flour
3 c milk
3/4 t salt
1/2 t black pepper
2 oz real bacon bits
4 oz sour cream – (I thought the addition of sour cream was going to be weird, but I tasted the soup before and after adding it since I was skeptical, and that little bit of tang is definitely key to the recipe.)
shredded cheddar cheese
diced green onions
Directions:
- Melt butter in large, heavy pot.
- Whisk in flour and cook for 2 minutes.
- Stir in milk, and continue to stir until slightly thickened.
- Cut potatoes into bite sized pieces and add to pot with salt, pepper, and bacon.
- Cook 5 minutes, then use a potato masher to mash the chunks up a bit.
- Stir in sour cream and add more milk if needed to get the consistency you want.
- Top with lots of cheese and diced green onions.
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wendy says
April 11, 2012 at 2:08 pmI have used this basic recipe myself for years, except I don’t mas the potatoes cause we love the chunks, I also sometimes add real bacon left over from breakfast, my kids top theirs with sour cream and I add alittle mroe cheese then this calls for…oh and diced carrots..there is som much you can do with this recipe!! enjoy!!
Diane G. says
April 11, 2012 at 9:23 pmThis may be a dumb question but why do you call it “baked” potato soup when there is nothing baked about it? I thought maybe you baked the potatoes instead of boiling but it looks like any other potato soup recipe with the addition of the sour cream.
Dana says
April 11, 2012 at 10:52 pmDiane: Under ‘ingredients’ it says that the potatoes should be baked.
Robin Bresett says
January 13, 2013 at 10:04 amHow much ppl would you say this serves??