Rich and Creamy Baked Potato Soup
This Rich and Creamy Baked Potato Soup has everything that makes baked potatoes delicious. This easy potato soup recipe would be great served with French bread and fresh butter. Hearty potato soup recipes like this one always hit the spot!
Ingredients
- 4 large potatoes
- 2/3 cup unsalted butter
- 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 quart milk
- salt and pepper to taste
- 4 green onions
- 1 cup sour cream
- 2 cup bacon, crispy and crumbled
- 5 ounce grated Cheddar cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Bake the potatoes in the oven until for tender. Set aside to cool.
- Melt butter in a medium saucepan. Slowly blend in the flour with a wire whisk until thoroughly blended. Gradually add milk to the butter-flour mixture, whisking constantly. Whisk in salt and pepper and simmer over low heat, stirring constantly.
- Cut potatoes in half and scoop out the meat and set aside. Chop half the potato peels and discard the remainder. When milk mixture is very hot, whisk in potato meat. Mix until creamy.
- Add green onion and potato peels. Whisk well. Add sour cream and crumbled bacon. Heat thoroughly.
- Add cheese a little at a time until it is all melted in.