The Ultimate Creamy Potato Soup
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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!
How to Make Potato Soup
The Ultimate Potato Soup Recipe
Equipment
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)
- ⅔ cup heavy cream, (155ml)
- 1 ½ teaspoon* salt
- 1 teaspoon ground pepper
- ¼ - ½ teaspoon ancho chili powder**
- ⅔ cup sour cream, (160g)
- Shredded cheddar cheese, chives, and additional sour cream and bacon for topping, optional
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!
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Made it tonight for dinner.. .absolutely delicious!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!
Thank you so much, Tina! I am so glad that you enjoyed the potato soup! 🙂
Can I make this and freeze it ?
Hi, Kandace! Unfortunately, I don’t recommend freezing the soup. It will be too mushy when thawed and reheated. 🙁
Good potato soup recipe for sure. It was fun to make. Thank you.
I am so glad that you enjoyed making the soup and that it tasted delicious, Julie! Thanks for trying my recipe. 🙂
It’s a snowy day in Georgia and this is just what we needed! Absolutely delicious! Added 1 tbsp of Better than Boullion and JESUS! Thank u for this amazing recipe!
Soup on a snowy day is the best! I am so glad that you enjoyed the potato soup, Tori! Thanks for trying my recipe and for commenting. 🙂
Thank you, Made this last night to get comfort while shoveling over 30 centimiters of snow.
It was VERY VERY GOOD.
My whole family loved it.
Soup is my favorite on a cold winter day. I am so glad that you enjoyed it, Maud! Thanks for trying my recipe. Stay warm. 🙂
Thought I was Queen of Potato Soup.
Your recipe is underway to prove me wrong. Will rate soon. Thanks for your “test”!!
Do you make the original Lazy Daisy Cake??
I hope that you enjoy the potato soup, Randy! Keep me posted on how it turns out. Unfortunately, I don’t have a recipe for lazy daisy cake at this time. 🙂
The only complaint it that I didn’t make enough! Great flavor, very filling, and all things considered not that hard to make! Will make again
I am so glad that you enjoyed the potato soup, Samuel! I am sorry that your first batch didn’t make enough. Just for the future, this recipe does double easily. Thanks for commenting. 🙂
I’m very excited to try this recipe today.
What can I substitute for the heavy cream if I have no yogurt?
Hi, Terri! If you’re looking for a substitute, half-and-half could work though the potato soup won’t be quite as creamy. 🙂
Your creamy potato soup is amazing. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much, Stephen. I am so glad that you enjoyed it! 🙂
100% the best potato soup I’ve ever had. My husband and three children loved it!
Thank you!! 💛
I am so glad that the soup was such a hit with your family, Cheska! Thanks for trying my recipe. 🙂
Hi! This will be the 4th or 5th time I am making this soup. It’s delicious.
Oh and just in case this helps anyone- I just use a potato masher at the end. It’s still very creamy and thick!
I’m going to try this recipe although I’m going to try with frozen potatoes I hope it still turns out as well as everyone has said…I’ll let you know soon 🙃
Hi, Pamela! Someone recently used frozen potatoes and had success. I hope that you do as well. Keep me posted on how it turns out. 🙂
I feel compelled to leave a comment after just one spoonful of a this amazing recipe. I am always on the hunt for new recipes so trying new things is nothing new to me, but i must say… this is something that i wish i had a bottomless pit amount stored in my kitchen at all times. Bravo, wonderful amazing delicious 5 stars.. has this been aired on the food new work yet ?
Thank you so very much, Bonnie! I am so glad that you enjoyed the potato soup. This recipe has not yet been aired on the food network but has been viewed by thousands on youtube. Thanks for trying my recipe and for commenting, I appreciate it! 🙂
This is now my forever go-to potato soup recipe. It’s simple enough to make but results in the thickest, most indulgent soup. The only thing I will change next time is adding carrots and celery with the onion for a little more variety and color. I may also try adding cheese directly to the pot. We added large handfuls to our bowls. My husband isn’t easy to impress in terms of food and he loved this.
I am so glad that your family enjoyed the potato soup, Mary! Thank you for trying my recipe and for commenting. 🙂
Let me preface this by saying I have NEVER left a comment on a recipe I used online. So the fact that I’m leaving one now means a lot. This recipe is SO GOOD. I’ve tried so many potato soup recipes and all of them are either too simple or try to do way too much. This is the best recipe out there.
Pro tip: I add thick diced ham as well to add more meat. Delicious
I am honored that you found my recipe worthy of commenting, Haley! I am so glad that you loved it! 🙂
My husband loves this recipe. My boys love this recipe. I love this recipe. We don’t eat pork so I use beef bacon, and yogurt for the heavy cream, because I never have heavy cream when I need it. Thanks for this.
I am so happy that this recipe has been such a hit with your family, Summer! Thanks for the feedback. 🙂
I made this for dinner tonight. My wife loved it!
Good job on coming up with this one.
I am so glad that the potato soup was such a hit, Ken! Thanks for trying my recipe. 🙂