Bacon Potato Soup

Everyone loves this soup. It's wholesome and filling and hearty. Potatoes + Cheese + Bacon can't go wrong.

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This is the ultimate comfort food. Everyone who tries it loves it, even my picky eaters. It’s a great way to use up a bag of potatoes that has sat a little too long, and it’s so easy to make. We love this extra when I have time to make my famous (in our house anyway) Dinner Rolls.

Bacon Potato Soup

Owl Creek Farm owlcreek.ca

Everyone loves this soup. It's wholesome and filling and hearty. Potatoes + Cheese + Bacon can't go wrong.

5 from 2 votes

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Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Total Time 50 minutes mins

Course Main Dish, Soup

Cuisine American

Servings 8

Calories 911 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• 1 lb bacon sliced or diced into small pieces
• ½ medium onion diced small
• 1 tbsp garlic minced
• 2 stalks celery diced small
• 5 lbs potatoes peeled and diced small
• 7 cups water
• 1 can evaporated milk
• 2 tbsp Better Than Bouillon Chicken
• 1 tsp ground pepper
• 8 ounces cheddar cheese shredded

Instructions

 

• Fry bacon in large pot until cooked but still soft, then drain all but approximately 1 tablespoon bacon fat.
• Fry onion, garlic, and celery with the bacon in the bacon fat until tender and bacon is crisp.
• Add water, evaporated milk, potatoes, Better Than Bouillon, and pepper, and bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat to simmer, and cover, simmering until potatoes are tender, about 10 minutes.
• Remove from heat and use a potato masher to mash potatoes. If you want a chunkier soup, don't mash completely. For a much smoother soup, you can use an immersion blending.
• Soup will thick as it cools. Serve with shredded cheddar cheese.

Notes

Originally posted on September 6, 2008. Recipe updated. The original recipe didn't include evaporated milk, and pepper got left off somehow. Regular milk can be used, or left out, but the best flavour, we've found, is from using evaporated.

Nutrition

Calories: 911kcalCarbohydrates: 56gProtein: 16gFat: 70gSaturated Fat: 30gCholesterol: 97mgSodium: 642mgPotassium: 1403mgFiber: 7gSugar: 8gVitamin A: 442IUVitamin C: 58mgCalcium: 371mgIron: 3mg

Keyword bacon, celery, cheese, cream, milk, onion, potato

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