Creamy Cheesy Bacon Potato Soup Recipe Recipe For Shrimp

CREAMY POTATO BACON SOUP

Steps:

• Cook bacon in a large saucepan over medium heat until crisp. Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside.
• Add onion, garlic, and celery to the bacon fat and cook 3-4 minutes or until onion softens slightly.
• Stir in chicken broth, potatoes, and thyme. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to a simmer and cook covered 10 minutes or until potatoes are tender. Stir in cream and simmer for 5 minutes longer.
• Combine cornstarch and 1 tablespoon of water to create a slurry. Whisk into the simmering soup and simmer 1 minute. Stir in half of the bacon. Season with salt, pepper, and cayenne to taste.
• Spoon into bowls, top with parmesan cheese, remaining bacon and green onions.

CHEESY POTATO SOUP WITH BACON

Steps:

• Chop scallions, separating green and white parts. Set aside.
• Cook bacon in a large Dutch oven over medium, stirring occasionally, until crispy, 10 to 15 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer to a plate lined with paper towels, leaving 2 tablespoons of bacon drippings in Dutch oven.
• Add potatoes, onion, butter, garlic, and white scallion pieces to Dutch oven, and cook over medium until onions are slightly softened, 5 to 6 minutes. Add flour, salt, and pepper, and stir until all ingredients are coated. Cook, stirring constantly, 1 minute. Stir in broth until combined. Bring mixture to a boil. Then reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer until potatoes are tender, about 12 minutes.
• Using a potato masher, lightly mash mixture, leaving some whole pieces of potato. Add white Cheddar and cream, stirring until cheese melts. Keep warm.
• Ladle soup into bowls. Top servings with bacon, green scallion pieces, and yellow Cheddar.

EASY CHEESY POTATO BACON SOUP

Steps:

• Add bacon pieces to a large pot. Turn heat to medium and cook until bacon is cooked through but only slightly crispy. Use a slotted spoon to transfer the bacon to a paper-towel lined plate and set aside.
• Spoon off and discard all but about 1 tablespoon of the bacon fat. Add onions and celery to the pot and cook over medium heat, stirring often and scraping any browned cooked-on bits from the bottom of the pan, for about 5 minutes, until the onions have just begun to turn translucent around the edges.
• Add potatoes and chicken broth to the pot. Bring to a simmer and then cook for 10 to 15 minutes, until potatoes can be easily smashed against the side of the pot with a fork.
• Use a potato masher or spatula to roughly smash about half of the potatoes in the pot.
• In a medium pot, over medium heat, melt butter and then add flour. Cook, whisking continuously, until flour begins to turn lightly golden, about 1 minute.
• Slowly drizzle in milk, whisking constantly as you go to whisk out any lumps. Cook, whisking continuously, until mixture is thickened and bubbly around the edges, about 5 minutes.
• Remove pot from heat and slowly whisk in cheese, a handful at a time. Once all your cheese is melted, stir the cheese sauce into the soup. Add pepper. Taste the soup and add salt if needed.
• Add about ¾ of the bacon to the soup (reserve ¼ for topping) and stir everything together.
• Ladle into bowls, top with sour cream, reserved bacon, sliced green onions, and more cheese if desired. Enjoy!

POTATO SOUP WITH SHRIMP

Steps:

• In a 4-quart saucepan, melt the butter and sauté the onion and carrots until both are slightly tender, about 5 minutes. Whisk in the flour and cook for 1 minute. Add the potatoes, milk and dissolved bouillon cubes. Cook over medium heat for 15 minutes, until the potatoes are very soft and some of them have begun to dissolve into mush. Add the half-and-half, salt and pepper.
• In a small saucepan, bring 2 cups lightly salted water to a boil. Add the shrimp all at once and stir well. Watch the shrimp closely; as soon as they all turn pink, about 2-3 minutes, turn off the heat and drain. The shrimp should be slightly undercooked. When they are cool, peel them, and chop roughly into big chunks. Add the shrimp to the soup and stir well. Serve soup sprinkled with bacon bits and grated cheddar cheese and garnished with fresh dill.
• Cook's Note: If you don't have access to shrimp, use corn.

CREAMY CHEESY BACON POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• 1. In a 6 quart Dutch oven or Stock Pot, Scrub & cube potatoes. Add them to the pot. Cover potatoes with cold water. Heat on Medium-high heat until boiling. Reduce heat to a simmer. Cook potatoes until tender.Do Not Drain.
• 2. Using a Potato Masher, mash potatoes. Once potatoes are somewhat small,use an Emersion Hand-Blender to puree potatoes. It should become thick. Add salt to taste.Turn stove to low.
• 3. In a skillet, fry bacon. Reserve back 2 Tablespoons Bacon dripings.( I use a metal can to put my bacon dripings in and cover with foil,then put in fridge to use at a later time to flavor green beans or use instead of butter; say in making pancakes etc.)Turn soup to low-medium heat now.
• 4. With remaining drippings,add diced onions to skillet until sauted,then spoon out into soup. Add 2 cups cheese and shredded carrot to soup now. Stir with ladel. Top individual bowls of soup with crumbled bacon & chopped green onions.

CREAMY, CHEESY POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Bring water to a boil in a medium saucepan.
• Add potato cubes and stir to make sure they are just covered with water.
• Cook potatoes until fork tender, maybe 10 minutes.
• Drain potatoes and set aside.
• In a large pot melt butter over medium heat and stir in onion. If using real onion cook until just translucent.
• Stir in the flour and cook stirring constantly for at least a minute to get rid of the raw flour taste. (If you've never worked with roux it will look like a really thick paste at this point. That's great- keep stirring :) ).
• Add red pepper flakes and salt & pepper.
• Slowly add the 1 cup of broth stirring as you pour it into the roux. Stir until smooth.
• Start adding the milk and cream and stir until smooth.
• Bring the mixture up to a low simmer stirring constantly. Simmer 2-3 minutes.
• Add the sugar and the shredded cheese.
• Stir until cheese is melted.
• Stir in Bacon or Ham and potatoes and cook for 1 minute to heat potatoes thru.

DELICIOUS CHEESY BAKED POTATO & BACON SOUP

Steps:

• In a large soup pot melt butter over medium-high heat.
• Add in garlic; cook stirring for about 2 minutes.
• Add in flour then stir until smooth (about 1 minute).
• Gradually add milk and half and half stirring constantly until thickened and smooth.
• Add potatoes and onions; bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
• Reduce heat; simmer for 10 minutes.
• Add remaining ingredients; stir until cheese is melted.
• Serve immediately.
• Delicious!

EASY CREAMY, CHEESY POTATO SOUP W/ CRISP BACON

Steps:

• In a 3-qt sauce pan, combine potatoes, water, regular salt, and pepper.
• NOTE: If using real, uncooked potatoes, bring to a boil, cover and simmer for 10 mins, until potatoes are tender.
• If using canned potatoes, bring to soft boil.
• Turn down heat to medium.
• Gradually add soup and milk, stirring constantly.
• Add onions, garlic, Johnny's seasoning salt, and dashes of hot sauce, and allow to cook, while stirring, for 5 minutes.
• Stir in sour cream, bacon, and parsley, and heat thru.
• Top with additional pepper and cheese.

BACON CHEDDAR POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Chop onions and celery, if using a food processor don't chop these too fine.
• In a large saucepan, sauté onion and celery in 4 ounces of butter until tender.
• Add potatoes and broth, bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes till potatoes are tender.
• In a small skillet, melt remaining 4 ounces of butter, add flour to make roux, cook roux over low heat until yellow blond in color and set aside.
• To cooked potato and broth mixture, add water, cream and roux stirring continuously until mixture thickens.
• Stir in the cheese, bacon bits, parsley, pepper and paprika.
• Cook over low heat until the cheese is melted, stir continuously and remove from heat when cheese is melted.
• Garnish with croutons, if desired.