An easy and delicious creamy potato soup recipe that can be made in just one pot! Loaded with bacon and creamy potato goodness, this is a favorite comfort food in my household.
Something savory today!
Savory, creamy, and loaded with bacon, sour cream, and cheese. You guys already know that we don’t exactly do health food around here, right? 😉
Even when I’m not sharing desserts, the food is always comfort food, and that’s usually best served with extra cheese (have you tried my baked mac and cheese yet!?) and usually comes with a few calories. Let’s not think about that too much, alright?
I know I mentioned to you guys that I had this potato soup recipe for you back when I posted my Oreo Balls; I made it when Zach had a bad cold and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since (you might think that’s an exaggeration, but I can assure you that my food obsessions run deep… Please see photo below to understand why).
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Zach prefers to eat healthy most of the time (I pretend that I do, too, but really if I lived alone I’m pretty sure I’d eat creamy cheesy foods every night and never fit through any doors ever again), so the soup was a good break from baked chicken breast, but this definitely isn’t an every night kind of meal in our house.
Potato soup is definitely on the menu for this weekend, though… it’s so frigid outside I’ve convinced myself that I need soup, specifically creamy potato soup, to survive. Potato soup makes me dramatic, evidently.
If you’re in the midst of a cold spell yourself (or even if you’re not) I think you’re going to enjoy this creamy potato soup as much as we do. Read on for some tips on how to make it!
Tips for Perfect Creamy Potato Soup
- Cut your potatoes into pieces no larger than 3/4″ and try to keep them around the same size so that they cook at the same time. Nothing worse than biting into a crisp, raw-inside chunk of potato!
- To make this soup nice and creamy, I recommend pureeing about half of it either by using an immersion blender or by transferring a portion of the soup to a blender, pureeing, and then stirring the pureed soup back into the pot (maybe you recognize this technique from my corn chowder). If you want a completely smooth soup you can puree all of it, but I prefer to have a few actual pieces of potato, so I think pureeing half gives it the best taste and texture.
- Don’t return the bacon to the pot until after you have pureed some of the soup. It’s best not to blend the bacon 😉.
- The ancho chili powder is, in my humble opinion, a must and gives this soup the most perfect depth of flavor. I blend it into the potato soup and also sprinkle it on top before serving. I recommend adding just a 1/4 teaspoon and then taste testing before adding more.
This would make a great comfort food for this cold and windy weekend (is there anything more cozy than a pot of soup simmering on the stove while the wind is howling at your window? Anything!?), and while I don’t follow football at all I do know that this would be great to make ahead and enjoy during the big game this weekend.
Who really cares about football when you can make yourself a Super Bowl of soup! 🤣😂 OK OK I’m sorry, enough of that!
Enjoy!

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How to Make Potato Soup

The Ultimate Potato Soup Recipe
Ingredients
- 6 strips (uncooked) bacon cut into small pieces
- 3 Tablespoons butter unsalted or salted will work
- 1 medium yellow onion chopped (about 1.5 cup/200g)
- 3 large garlic cloves minced
- ⅓ cup all-purpose flour 42g
- 2 ½ lbs gold potatoes peeled and diced into pieces no larger than 1” (this was about 6 Large potatoes for me/1.15kg)
- 4 cups chicken broth 945ml
- 2 cups milk 475ml
- 2/3 cup heavy cream 155ml
- 1 ½ teaspoon* salt
- 1 teaspoon ground pepper
- 1/4 - 1/2 teaspoon ancho chili powder**
- 2/3 cup sour cream 160g
- Shredded cheddar cheese, chives, and additional sour cream and bacon for topping optional
Recommended Equipment
Instructions
- Place bacon pieces in a large Dutch Oven or soup pot over medium heat and cook until bacon is crisp and browned.
- Remove bacon pieces and set aside, leaving the fat in the pot.
- Add butter and chopped onion and cook over medium heat until onions are tender (3-5 minutes).
- Add garlic and cook until fragrant (about 30 seconds).
- Sprinkle the flour over the ingredients in the pot and stir until smooth (use whisk if needed).
- Add diced potatoes to the pot along with chicken broth, milk, heavy cream, salt, pepper, and ancho chili powder. Stir well.
- Bring to a boil and cook until potatoes are tender when pierced with a fork (about 10 minutes).
- Reduce heat to simmer and remove approximately half*** of the soup to a blender (be careful, it will be hot!) and puree until smooth (half is about 5 cups of soup, but just eyeballing the amount will be fine. Alternatively you can use an immersion blender.).
- Return the pureed soup to the pot and add sour cream and reserved bacon pieces, stir well.
- Allow soup to simmer for 15 minutes before serving.
- Top with additional sour cream, bacon, cheddar cheese, or chives. Enjoy!
Christine says
This soup is so delicious and easy to make! It has so much more flavor than other potato soups I’ve made 🙂
Janice Argyle says
This was the best potato soup we’ve ever tasted!!😋 Thanks for the recipe 👍🏻
Sam says
I’m so glad you enjoyed it so much, Janice! 🙂
Betty says
Super
The best ever.
Husband loved it wants it for dinner as well. Suits me
May I ask the nutrition label
Sam says
I’m so glad everyone enjoyed it, Betty! I haven’t calculated all of the nutrition info here, just that one serving is 480 calories. 🙂
Jeff Meier says
Incredible. 1st time I’ve made this recipe. Will definitely make again.
Sam says
I’m so glad you enjoyed it so much, Jeff! 🙂
Bobbie says
Delicious! I’ve made this 3 times and it always comes out great! Quick question – can leftovers be frozen?
Sam says
I’m so glad you have enjoyed it so much, Bobbie! I haven’t tried freezing it myself, but I would be concerned that it would separate.
Jeannie says
Got it simmering on the stove now. Smells amazing. Can’t wait to dig in along with some Ham & Cheese crescent rolls!
Sam says
I hope you love it, Jeannie! 🙂
Betty says
By far the best potato soup recipe I’ve ever had!!!! Making it for the second time tonight! My family loves it and my husband even had seconds!(he never does that)!!!!!
Ruth Morris says
Delicious! Made this today as we wait for the snow storm….. exceeded my expectations!
Scott says
Delicious!
Amber says
I have made many potato soup recipes and this one is not only the easiest but also my family’s favorite! My teenage son said it’s the best he has ever had. I have made it couple times now and didn’t change a thing, well I did put cheese right in the soup the same time I added the bacon and sour cream at the end.
Sam says
I am so glad everyone has enjoyed it so much, Amber! 🙂