Recipe: Perfect Loaded Bake Potato Soup

Loaded Bake Potato Soup. This soup incorporates pre-baked cubes of potato with onion, crumbled bacon, cheddar cheese and sour cream in a milk soup base which has been thickened with a roux. Loaded Baked Potato Soup - All the flavors of a loaded baked potato comes together in this comforting soup! All the flavors of a loaded baked potato comes together beautifully in this satisfyingly creamy and comforting soup!

That starch is released as the potatoes cook in the broth, becoming part of the underpinning of a rich, thick soup. Make Guy Fieri's easy fully-loaded baked potato soup from Guy's Big Bite, and top it with your favorite fixin's - bacon, cheese, sour cream and chives. When done, the tip of a paring knife should go through the potatoes easily. You can cook Loaded Bake Potato Soup using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Loaded Bake Potato Soup

1. Prepare 8 each of Idaho potatoes.
2. It's of green onions or chives.
3. It's 12 each of garlic cloves.
4. You need 1 of large yellow onion.
5. It's 2 cup of sharp cheddar cheese.
6. You need of salt & pepper.
7. You need of sour cream.
8. You need 4 tbsp of unsalted butter.
9. Prepare 2 quart of half and half.
10. You need 1 packages of bacon.

If you like loading your baked potatoes will all those delish dairy ingredients, then you'll love this soup recipe, too! Once cooled, peel and mash potatoes, and set aside. Heat oil in large pot over a medium-high heat. It's truly a loaded baked potato soup.

Loaded Bake Potato Soup step by step

1. Wash potatoes really well now to your preferences you can peel them or not I like my skins.. cut 5 potatoes and boil in water.
2. As potatoes are boiling Now dice about 3 potatoes small dice leave off to the side...dice the yellow onion and bacon and Galic.
3. In a pot cook bacon garlic and onions together make sure it is on a (medium to medium low flame) when brown take out of the pot and fry the small dice potatoes in the bacon fat once those potatoes are cook take them out of the pot.
4. Now add the half and half and scape the bottom best you can to get all the good little brown bits and as soon as the boiled potatoes are done strain the water out and add the boiled potatoes buttwr and sour cream to the half and half and with a stick blender blend the soup.
5. Once it has been blended add the bacon and onions to the soup and 1 cup of the cheddar cheese..make sure to save some bacon and onion mixture to add to top of the soup.
6. Cook soup for about 10 then add the fried potatoes and cook for another 5 then serve in a bowl and top with remaining cheddar and bacon and green onions.

My father, being the potato-craving German he is and therefore completely biased, raved about this soup. The baked potato soup will keep for about five days, and reheats well either in the microwave or over low heat on the stovetop. Loaded baked potato soup recipe is one of my very favorites! When it is cold outside slow cooker soups are just what is needed to stay warm inside. Loaded baked potato soup is perfect for adding on all of the toppings.