Baked Potato Soup Recipe for the every day person

Baked Potato Soup Recipe

Potato Soup

Potato Soup Tip

Slow and low is the way to cook your potato soup. Because of the high starch content of potato soup you have to be careful not to burn it. If you scorch the bottom of your potato soup it will have that burnt taste all through the soup. So remember its a low and slow cooking technique for that potato soup recipe.

It’s that time of the year again when we start looking to the soup pot for something to warm our tummies and our souls. This baked potato soup recipe is just the ticket to satisfy both. I’ve seen several variations on this recipe of late but this one seems to provide the base for all of the variations. From this baked potato soup recipe you should be able to create you own unique version to tag you name to. While I mash up some of the potatoes I also just cube some of them up so that I get some big chunks too. Makes me feel like I’m getting more than just soup.

5 large potatoes
1 stick butter
3/4 cup of flour
1 3/4 quarts of milk
4 green onions
1 cup of sour cream
1/2 pound of bacon
10 ounces of shredded cheddar

Bake the potatoes till they are fork tender.
Cook and crumble the bacon and place it on a paper towel to remove any grease.
Chop up the green onions.
In you soup pot heat the butter and milk until the butter is melted. Do not bring to a boil..
When the butter is melted whisk in the flour slowly to prevent lumps.
Peel the potatoes if you like or not it’s a personal thing. If you are going to leave the skin on then cut the potatoes up and then mash them so that you don’t have one big potato skin in there.
Add the mashed potatoes , ½ of the bacon and ½ of the onions and heat till it is all hot. Garnish with a drab of sour cream and the reset of the onion and bacon.

 

Potato Soup Recipe Facts

Potato Soup recipe facts that i bet you didn't know...

Just one Potato Provides

1 potato will provide you with about 40% of your vitamin C and 20% of your potassium needs for the day.

 

one potato a day

Did you know that every American eats about 130 pounds of potatoes every year? That works out to about 1 potato a day for everyone.

 

Random potato facts

Potatoes are only second to milk as the most consumed and that Europeans eat more than twice as many potatoes as Americans. Also potatoes hold the record as being the first vegetable to be grown in space by NASA in 1995.

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