Cream Cheese Potato Soup
"Souped up soup!"
photo by breezermom
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
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8-10
ingredients
- 4 1⁄2 lbs russet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces (about 8)
- 3 1⁄2 cups chicken broth
- 6 slices bacon
- 1 onion, chopped
- 12 mushrooms, coarse chopped
- 2 cups milk
- 8 ounces cream cheese, cut into bits and softened (chilled cream cheese will be grainy)
- salt and pepper
- sliced green onion top (to garnish)
directions
- In large pot combine potatoes with broth and simmer, covered, 20 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
- Remove potatoes from heat and mash with potato masher.
- In frying pan, cook bacon until crisp and drain on paper towel and crumble; set aside. To bacon fat, add onion and mushrooms; saute until tender.
- Add the bacon/onion mixture to potatoes. Stir in milk, cream cheese, salt and pepper until cream cheese is melted. DO NOT BOIL.
- Garnish with green onions.
Questions & Replies
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Do you drain the chicken broth
Reviews
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Yummy! We really enjoyed this soup. I had ham broth I saved from a baked ham I made so I used that instead of the chicken broth. It turned out great! I wish I had made a double batch, it's so good. Thanks, GailAnn! -
Amazing potato soup !!! It's super easy to make and has great flavor I have made it several times and I think I finally have it perfected I didn't add the mushrooms because we don't really care for them I added a ladle of my chicken broth and potato mixture and put it in my blender with the cream cheese and puréed it so it was nice and smooth and then added it back to the potato/ broth mixture and stired it in it made the soup a lot creamier and you didn't have those little chunks of cream cheese that didn't get completely blended in -
Very Good!!!!! Was easy to make and very hearty. There wasn`t any leftovers on this one. My family is not real big into soups. They said this one was a keeper.
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Very good, very thick soup! I think celery would have been a great addition to this soup. I liked it even better the next day when I added some water and topped it with nonfat sour cream and more bacon bits. I agree with the original portion sizes you had on the recipe (serves 4-6). Thank you! -
Delicious! I did not have any mushrooms but it was wonderful even without them!
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
gailanng
United States
I'm just me, mother, grandmother...friend to many and a Louisianian. My Cajun and French Quarter Italian descent afforded me exposure to some of the best of foods. My passions are my family, decorating, cooking and gardening. Those very passions push me into constant awareness with always looking for something new to delight the senses, thus my favorite idiom...Inspire me, puuuullllllleeeeeeease! ...and I mean it, too. God Bless America!
