My Favorite Baked Potato Soup
- Ready In:
- 1hr 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 4 large baking potatoes
- 2⁄3 cup butter
- 2⁄3 cup flour
- 6 cups skim milk
- 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1⁄2 teaspoon white pepper
- 4 green onions
- 12 slices bacon
- 1 1⁄4 cups cheddar cheese, shredded and divided
- 8 ounces sour cream
directions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Prick the potato and wrap in foil. Bake potatoes for approximately 1 hour until done. Let cool, then scoop the pulp and set aside.
- Meanwhile cook the bacon, let cool, then crumble. Set aside.
- Chop onions.
- Melt butter over low heat in a heavy saucepan. Add the flour, stirring until smooth. Cook 1 minute, stir constantly.
- Increase to medium heat and gradually add the milk, stirring consistantly until thick and bubbly.
- Add the potatoes, salt, peppers, half of the green onions and bacon. Stir in 1 cup of cheese.
- Cook until thoroughly heated, then stir in sour cream. Can add more milk if desire a different consistency.
- Top with remaining onions, bacon, and cheese.
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I enjoy cooking, especially baking. I am married, no children though I have a dog Chance, whose internal clock must be Swiss-made as he knows what time dinner should be and is quite the taskmaster if I'm not at least in the kitchen at the appointed time.
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