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FULLY LOADED BAKED POTATO SOUP RECIPE

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Equipment

  • pot large

Ingredients

  • 4-6 large potatoes
  • 8 slices bacon
  • 4 T butter
  • ½ onion chopped
  • 2 tsp garlic minced
  • ¼ C flour
  • 2 ½ C milk
  • 2 ½ C chicken broth
  • 1 C cheddar cheese shredded
  • ¾ C sour cream
  • Salt & pepper to taste
  • Green onions and additional cheese for garnish

Instructions

  • Wash, peel, and cut potatoes into cubes, boil, drain, and set aside.
    peeled, diced and boiled potatoes
  • In a large pot, fry bacon until brown. Remove the bacon from the pot but leave the rendered fat.
    bacon cooking in a pot
  • Cook onion in the bacon fat and butter until soft.
    onion cooking in bacon fat
  • Add in garlic, cook 1 minute.
  • Whisk in flour, then slowly whisk in broth and milk.
    flour mixed into bacon fat and butter
  • Stir in cooked potatoes, sour cream, cheese, and ½ of the cooked bacon.
    baked potato soup topped with cheese and sour cream
  • Bring to a boil, then remove from heat.
    cooked fully loaded baked potato soup
  • Serve in a large bowl, garnished with green onions, cheese, and the remaining bacon.
    close p of a bowl of loaded baked potato soup garnished with onions, cheese, and bacon