Baked Potato Soup
photo by lazyme
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
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10
ingredients
- 6 baking potatoes
- 2⁄3 cup butter
- 2⁄3 cup flour
- 1 1⁄2 quarts milk
- salt and pepper
- 6 green onions
- 1 cup sour cream
- 2 cups crisp cooked bacon, crumbled
- 2 cups cheddar cheese, shredded
directions
- Heat oven to 400 degrees.
- Wash potatoes and bake until fork tender.
- Let cool.
- Melt butter in dutch oven, slowly blend in flour with a wire whisk until throughly blended.
- Gradually add milk to the butter-flour mixture, whisking constantly.
- Whisk in salt and pepper and simmer over low heat, stirring constantly.
- Cut potatoes into bite-size cubes.
- When milk mixture is very hot, add potatoes, green onion, sour cream and bacon.
- Mix throughly and heat completely.
- Add cheese a little at a time until melted.
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Reviews
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All the carboholics in the office were in heaven. They licked the bowl clean. Don't tell them that I used low fat EVERYTHING. They have gone on and on about how many calories it probably was. Low fat sour cream, low fat milk, low fat cheese, turkey bacon. I also left the peels on the taters. Great recipe.
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Tweaks
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If I could give it more than 5 stars I would. !) stars, this is so good. But I will say, I made it with baked potatoes and that is what made it so good. Who would havew thought! I did use1 pint of heavy cream and 1 cup of half and half and the rest 1% milk. It did turn out thick and creamy and not for the "light" hearted crowd. I also used 1 cup of cheese, 1/2 tsp garlic powder, and instead of green onions which I did not have, used chives. I'm not a big onion fan so it worked out great. I feel it could be served in an upscale restaurant with rave reviews. Thank you podapo.
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My family doesn't usually like soup but they LOVED this recipe! I used 8 potatoes instead of 6 because I wanted to leave a good amount of pulp in the skins to make potato skins for our next meal. I used margarine instead of butter and a whole pack of bacon rather than measuring out 2 cups. For the salt and pepper I used 3/4 teaspoon of each. For those of you who didn't know, like me, 1 1/2 quarts of milk is 6 cups of milk. I'll be making this again soon. :)