This easy baked potato soup comes together effortlessly using baked potatoes and is just the way you like it when garnished with all of your favorite toppings.
I don’t know what’s happening with the weather where you live, but here we seem to have skipped right over fall and headed straight into winter. Being a Georgia girl born and raised, cold weather is not my favorite, so I’m always looking for ways to warm up.
When it comes to food, that means soup! Potato soup is one of those things you’d have to be crazy not to like. Our version is easy, too, and you can make your bowl as “loaded” as you like it!
Equally easy and perfect for cool weather is Butternut Squash and Red Pepper Soup. It’s a favorite around fall holidays.
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This recipe really couple not be more simple. Basically, you’re going to bake a few potatoes and scoop out the insides. Then, cook the bacon and set it aside. Cook some green onions in the bacon grease and set those aside, too.
Then add butter, flour, milk, and the potato and mash it all together. (Click over here to get to a full page of potato mashers). Toss in some cheddar cheese, the bacon, and the green onions, and you have easy baked potato soup!
Let’s be honest. The only reason you might order a baked potato to go with your meal is because you’re thinking about those topping you want on it. Are you a cheese only sort of person? Butter and sour cream?
If you’re like me, you go all the way… cheddar cheese, green onions, bacon, and sour cream. You can customize your bowl of potato soup the same way, so be sure to set out lots of options so everyone can dress it up to their liking.
If you’re a soup lover you’ll want to try Italian Sausage Soup with Veggies and Pasta (southern style, of course). And another creamy one that’s as easy as this is She Crab Soup.
Love soup and salad like we do? This beautiful Salad with Marinated Asparagus and Oranges goes perfectly with a bowl of soup. Asiago Cheese & Black Pepper Biscuits are absolutely yummy with this or any soup.
As always, if you make this easy baked potato soup recipe, let us know what you think in the comments below and snap a picture so you can tag us on Instagram @biscuitsandburlap!
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Easy Potato Soup Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 baking potatoes, baked and scooped out
- 5-6 cups milk
- 10-12 strips bacon, cut into lardons
- 1 bunch green onions
- 1.5 cups sharp cheddar cheese, shredded divided
- 2 Tablespoons butter
- ⅓ cup all purpose flour
- salt, to taste
- pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Cook bacon pieces (lardons) over medium high heat in dutch oven until done. Set aside to drain on paper towels. Spoon out any bacon grease in excess of approximately 2 Tablespoons.
- Dice bottom ⅓ of green onions and saute’ in bacon grease until limp. Set aside.
- Add butter and melt over medium heat. Stir in flour. Add milk, whisking for 4-5 more minutes.
- Add scooped potatoes and mash with a potato masher or large spoon until most, but not all, of the lumps are mashed out.
- Add 1 cup cheese, onion and ½ of the bacon and stir until cheese is melted. The soup can simmer a while at this point or is ready to eat.
- Garnish with remaining bacon, additional chopped green onions and additional cheese.
Jamielyn says
Potato soup is one of my favorites! This looks so creamy and delicious!
Pam says
It really is good. Thanks, Jamielyn!
Caitlyn Erhardt says
This looks so comforting! The perfect winter soup recipe!
Pam says
Thank you, Caitlyn!
plant.well says
Mmmm I love potato soup, and you’re pictures are so beautifully vibrant! 🙂
Pam says
Awww…. thanks so much!
georgie says
this looks so cozy and comforting! I haven’t had potato soup in a long, long time! I must try it again sometime!
Pam says
Thanks, Georgie!
Sandi says
Yummy! Potato soup is one of our go to recipes in the winter, especially with how crazy the weather has been.
Pam says
Exactly! We love it too.
Jan says
Looks good! Wish y’all would get a yum button! I’m pinning but I like yum better.