Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, cheesy ham and potato soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
In a saucepan, bring potatoes and water to a boil. In a large saucepan, saute ham and onion in butter until onion is tender. Stir in the flour and pepper until smooth; gradually add milk and reserved cooking liquid.
Cheesy Ham and Potato soup is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Cheesy Ham and Potato soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have cheesy ham and potato soup using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Cheesy Ham and Potato soup:
- Make ready 1/2 lb bacon
- Make ready 3 each potatoes diced
- Prepare 1 small onion diced
- Take 1 large carrot diced
- Prepare 1 each celery rib diced
- Take 4 tbsp bacon grease
- Get 4 tbsp flour
- Take 2 cup chicken broth
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup ham diced(or more)
- Take 1/2 tsp sea salt
- Make ready 1/2 tsp black pepper
- Make ready 8 oz shredded cheddar cheese
- Get 1 cup heavy cream
I changed a few items because of what I had onhand. This Cheesy Ham and Potato Soup is simple and DELICIOUS!! With potatoes, ham, cheese, scallions, and yummy spices, this soup is FULL of flavor! We tend to have leftover ham after holidays like Christmas and Easter, which is perfect for using in this soup!
Instructions to make Cheesy Ham and Potato soup:
- Cook bacon in a large frying pan. Crumble and set aside. Save bacon grease.
- While the bacon is cooking: in a 5 qt dutch oven, or similar size soup or stock pot, cover diced potatoes with water and boil till desired tenderness(about 15 mins). Save 1 and 1/2 cups of water from the cooked potatoes and drain.
- After bacon is cooked, remove bacon from pan. Keep 4 tbls(I just kept all the grease in the pan from cooking the half pound of bacon) bacon grease in frying pan and add onion, celery, carrot and cook for about 10 minutes or until onions are translucent.
- Transfer cooked veggies and bacon grease to the empty soup pot that the potatoes were in.
- Add the 4 tbls flour to the veggies and stir to dissolve flour completely. Cook about 3 mins. (You may want to add a little more flour or bacon grease depending on consistency, but 4 n 4 works well)
- Slowly add the saved water from the potatoes to the pot while stirring to combine. The mixture should be quite thick.
- Add the chicken broth, ham, salt, pepper, cooked potatoes and crumbled bacon and return to simmer. Stir well to combine the liquids.
- Slowly (about a handful at a time) add cheese, let melt a little then stir in. Repeat untill all cheese added and melted.
- Add heavy cream and stir to combine.
- Return to simmer and cook 5 to 20 mins.
- Enjoy! Top with what you like. (Cheese, bacon, green onions, croutons, etc) Or enjoy as is. I like some cheese garlic croutons on mine.
We also use leftovers for ham and bean soup, or cheesy ham chowder. How to make Cheesy Ham and Potato Soup: Step one: Warm butter in a large soup pot. Step two: Add in diced carrots, celery, and onion. Step three: Next add in diced potatoes, corn, ham, and chicken broth. Step four: Season with salt and pepper to taste.
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