A flavorsome and hearty potato soup that is easy to prepare and lovely to eat
Submitted by Darren Comley
Baked Potato Soup
A flavorsome and hearty potato soup that is easy to prepare and lovely to eat
Serving: 6
Ingredients
- 1 kg potatoes. diced.
- 10 slices short cut bacon, diced
- 1/2 stick chorizo, diced
- 3 chillis, chopped roughly, seeds in
- 4 cups chicken stock
- 1 onion, diced
- 3 teaspoons minced garlic
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 1/3 cup plain flour
- 1 can evaporated milk
- 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- Salt and Pepper to taste
- Optional toppings - chives, shredded cheese, spring onions, bacon, sliced chilli, parsley
Instructions
- Add diced potato, onion, garlic, bacon and chicken stock to the slow cooker. You can fry the bacon, onion and garlic first if you prefer.
- Season with salt and pepper and cook on low for 6-8 hours til potatoes are fork tender.
- In a saucepan, melt the butter, stir in the flour and gradually add the evaporated milk.
- Stir this mixture to smooth then gently simmer until the mix is a creamy thickness.
- Add the mix into the slow cooker and stir to combine.
- Mash 3/4 of the potatoes, leaving the rest in dices.
- Add the sour cream and cheese to the slow cooker and stir to combine
- Test taste for seasoning
- If soup is too thick at this point, add more chicken stock (start with one extra cup) and stir through
- Cook another 30 minutes
- Serve with optional toppings of your choice
- I reconnected with an old high school friend Kellie (30 year reunion) and she provided me with this recipe, which I tweaked.
- If you like your soup chunkier, only mash half the potatoes. Would be awesome for dipping half a french tick/roll covered in melted cheese.
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I wish I had bread rolls but toast worked just as well! Not a huge soup person, but boy is this good!
The chorizo wasn’t mentioned anywhere in the recipe past the ingredients list, so I chopped it up and threw it in with the sour cream and cheese step.
Our family favourite soup now! Didn’t use as much bacon and no chorizo but apart from that everything else. Just delicious with garlic bread. So filling for a cold windy day. We love this soup!
What lovely feedback!! Thanks so much 🙂