This Creamy Loaded Potato Soup is wealthy, filling, and stuffed with tasty loaded baked potato taste! It has been so chilly the place I dwell recently, and a heat, hearty bowl of potato soup with cheese and bacon is simply the satisfying consolation meals I’ve been craving! I really like consuming this soup for lunch or dinner, and it pairs completely with a aspect salad or contemporary veggies with dip. Higher nonetheless, a satisfying cup of this Creamy Loaded Potato Soup is simply 232 energy or 5 WW Factors (or 8 Factors if following the diabetic WW plan). To view your present WW Factors for this recipe and monitor it within the WW app, click on right here!
Recipe Notes
- Potatoes: I exploit and advocate utilizing russet potatoes on this soup. Two kilos of potatoes is about 3-4 medium to massive potatoes. You’ll wish to wash and peel your potatoes earlier than chopping them up to make use of within the soup!
- Bacon: I nearly at all times use heart reduce bacon in my recipes, as a result of it’s only a leaner reduce of normal bacon, so it tastes superb and crisps up properly. Within the recipe directions I’ve you toss a few of the bacon in with the soup and depart some out to make use of as topping, however if you’d like your bacon to remain crispy you should use all of it as topping slightly than mixing some into the soup.
- Cheese: I feel cheddar cheese works completely on this, however you probably have one other variety available or wish to attempt one thing else, be happy. Colby Jack or Pepper Jack would each be tasty. If you need your cheese to soften extra simply, you may shred your personal from a brick as a substitute of shopping for it pre-shredded, however both variety will work!
- Chives: I really like the freshness and delicate onion taste a sprinkle of chives provides, however you may omit this or substitute scallions if you happen to don’t have them.
- Mixing: I like my potato soup to be easy and creamy, so I extremely advocate mixing this soup because the recipe instructs! I really like utilizing my immersion blender/stick blender for this as a result of it’s really easy and mess-free to mix it proper within the pot. Nonetheless, if you happen to don’t personal an immersion blender, you may positively switch the soup to an everyday blender in a pair batches after which return it to the pot.
- Re-heating: This Creamy Loaded Potato Soup reheats rather well! It’s already a thick soup, however because it continues to thicken up because it cools, I like so as to add a little bit water to mine once I reheat the leftovers. This may skinny it out a bit! I don’t actually have a measurement to share, I simply maintain my bowl underneath the faucet and switch it on for a fast splash after which combine it in earlier than microwaving to reheat.
Extra Tasty Lightened-Up Soup Recipes
For extra tasty, lightened up soup recipes like this Creamy Loaded Potato Soup, take a look at my Creamy Hen and Gnocchi Soup, Sausage and Tortellini Tomato Soup, Butternut Squash Soup, Creamy Hen and Wild Rice Soup, Black Bean Soup, Beef Taco Soup, Buffalo Hen Soup, Sluggish Cooker Beef and Barley Soup, Hen Corn Chowder, Zuppa Toscana, Broccoli Cheddar Soup, Italian Wedding ceremony Soup, Cheeseburger Soup, Spaghetti and Meatball Soup, and extra within the soup part of my recipe index!
Creamy Loaded Potato Soup
This Creamy Loaded Potato Soup is wealthy, filling, and flavorful with cheese, bitter cream, and bacon!
- 2 lbs russet potatoes, peeled and reduce into 1” cubes
- 1 teaspoon salt, divided
- 6 slices heart reduce bacon, (I exploit Oscar Mayer)
- 3 tablespoons mild butter, (I exploit Land O’Lakes mild butter unfold with canola oil within the tub)
- ½ medium onion, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 3 cups low sodium hen broth
- 2 cups fats free half-and-half
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- ⅓ cup mild bitter cream
- 3 oz shredded 2% milk sharp cheddar cheese
- 1 tablespoon sliced chives
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Place the potato chunks in a Dutch oven or soup pot and add water till it fills to about an inch over the tops of the potatoes. Add ½ teaspoon of the salt and place on a burner over excessive warmth till boiling. As soon as boiling*, proceed to prepare dinner uncovered for 10 minutes. Test a potato with afork to make sure tenderness after which drain the potatoes right into a colander. Switch the new potatoes to a bowl and mash a bit with a fork or potato masher. Put aside.
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*Whereas the potatoes are boiling, prepare dinner the bacon to crisp based on bundle directions, after which set on paper towels to empty any extra grease. Chop the bacon and put aside.
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As soon as the potatoes are accomplished, add the butter to the identical pot and produce over medium warmth. Add the chopped onion and prepare dinner, stirring sometimes, for 4-5 minutes till the onion is softened. Add the garlic and prepare dinner for a further 30-60 seconds. Whisk within the flour a little bit at a time till totally mixed and let the “paste” that kinds prepare dinner for a minute. Slowly whisk within the broth a little bit at a time till the combination is totally mixed. Add the half-and-half a bit at a time and whisk into the combination till creamy. Elevate the warmth to med-high, whisking sometimes, till the combination thickens and calmly bubbles. Scale back warmth to a simmer.
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Add the cooked potatoes to the pot together with the remaining ½ teaspoon of salt and the ½ teaspoon of black pepper. Stir collectively and take away from warmth. Use an immersion blender (or switch soup to an everyday blender in batches) immediately within the pot to mix the soup till easy.
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Add the bitter cream, shredded cheddar, and about 2/3 of the chopped bacon and stir till the bitter cream and cheese has easily melted into the soup. Serve heat and garnish every cup of soup with a sprinkle of the remaining bacon and chopped chives.
WW Factors per (1 cup) serving: 5* (SP calculated utilizing the recipe builder within the WW app)
*a serving is 8 Factors if following the diabetic Weight Watchers plan)
Diet Info per (1 cup) serving:
232 energy, 30 g carbs, 4 g sugars, 8 g fats, 4 g saturated fats, 11 g protein, 2 g fiber, 404 mg sodium (from myfitnesspal.com)
Weight Watchers Factors Plus:
6 per (1 cup) serving (PP calculated utilizing a Weight Watchers PointsPlus calculator and the diet data)
Tailored from The Cozy Prepare dinner and Ina Garten