Delicious Ham and Potato Soup

Submitted by MeliBug

"This is an amazing soup from Toronto, Canada. Great for cold weather outside!"

 

• Ready In: 45mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Yields: 8 bowls
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 3 1⁄2 cups peeled and diced potatoes
• 1⁄3 cup diced celery
• 1⁄3 cup finely chopped onion
• 3⁄4 cup diced cooked ham
• 3 1⁄4 cups water
• 2 tablespoons chicken bouillon granules
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt (or to taste)
• 1 teaspoon ground black pepper (or to taste)
• 5 tablespoons butter
• 5 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 2 cups milk

directions

1. Combine the potatoes, celery, onion, ham and water in a stockpot. Bring to a boil, then cook over medium heat until potatoes are tender, about 10 to 15 minutes. Stir in the chicken bouillon, salt and pepper.
2. In a separate saucepan, melt butter over medium-low heat. Whisk in flour with a fork, and cook, stirring constantly until thick, about 1 minute. Slowly stir in milk as not to allow lumps to form until all of the milk has been added. Continue stirring over medium-low heat until thick, 4 to 5 minutes.
3. Stir the milk mixture into the stockpot, and cook soup until heated through. Serve immediately.

Reviews

[LUVMY2BOYS]

I really enjoyed the fact that this recipe didn't use cheese: sometimes soups w/ cheese don't reheat well :-). Husband loved this! I cut the recipe in 1/2 but ended up using about 1 cup of lean turkey ham. I used veggie broth for the water (omitted bouillon) & liked the fact that the flour/butter combo was made separately & then added to the meat mix. It was very good & I hope hubby requests it again :-). Thank you!

 

[cyaos]

This was quite good on its own. I followed the recipe exactly with the exception that I just used free-range, reduced sodium chicken broth instead of water and elimated the chicken bouillon entirely. You could taste each individual flavour and that was nice. I like strong flavours so I would like to add some crushed garlic next time and perhaps a little more pepper and maybe some other spices. Very good as is though. Thanks for posting!

 

[LonghornMama]

My friend made and suggested this recipe. Very good, and I love that it doesn't contain cheese. Quick and easy and of course reheats well. I used chicken base instead of bouillon, and would reduce the salt next time. Also, I used Penzey's white pepper which is pretty strong, next time I'd reduce that a bit. Delicious on a cold day! Thanks for sharing the recipe!

 

[samuel]

I made this recipe as written. This recipe was easy to follow and the end results were very tasty. This will definitely be added to my make again recipes. Thank you for sharing.

 

[Ramelle B.]

I modified slightly as I like a little cheese (but didn't have) so I added a can of cheese soup and more water and used some celery seeds as I also didn't have celery, and added garlic cloves...made with new little reds and it was fabulous. Topped it off with a few romano cheese croutons and it was a hearty soup. I'm no soup maker but this one, I could do.