Cheesy Ham and Potato soup
Cheesy Ham and Potato soup

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Combine potatoes, celery, carrots, onion, ham, and water/broth in stockpot and bring to boil. Then cook over medium heat until potatoes Stir the cheese mixture into the stockpot and cook until heated through. (I also will break up some of the potatoes for thickness. It gets thicker as it cools. With potatoes, ham, cheese, scallions, and yummy spices, this soup is FULL of flavor!

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook cheesy ham and potato soup using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Cheesy Ham and Potato soup:
  1. Take 1/2 lb bacon
  2. Make ready 3 each potatoes diced
  3. Get 1 small onion diced
  4. Prepare 1 large carrot diced
  5. Get 1 each celery rib diced
  6. Get 4 tbsp bacon grease
  7. Get 4 tbsp flour
  8. Prepare 2 cup chicken broth
  9. Prepare 1 1/2 cup ham diced(or more)
  10. Get 1/2 tsp sea salt
  11. Get 1/2 tsp black pepper
  12. Get 8 oz shredded cheddar cheese
  13. Get 1 cup heavy cream

This Cheesy Ham and Potato Soup is easy to throw together, and will quickly become a family favorite. It's my favorite meal on a cold chilly day, and tastes amazing. Soup season has arrived and I am always looking for new and delicious soups that my family will enjoy. Using shortcuts like frozen hash brown potatoes, the soup takes only minutes to prepare and the slow cooker does the rest.

Instructions to make Cheesy Ham and Potato soup:
  1. Cook bacon in a large frying pan. Crumble and set aside. Save bacon grease.
  2. While the bacon is cooking: in a 5 qt dutch oven, or similar size soup or stock pot, cover diced potatoes with water and boil till desired tenderness(about 15 mins). Save 1 and 1/2 cups of water from the cooked potatoes and drain.
  3. After bacon is cooked, remove bacon from pan. Keep 4 tbls(I just kept all the grease in the pan from cooking the half pound of bacon) bacon grease in frying pan and add onion, celery, carrot and cook for about 10 minutes or until onions are translucent.
  4. Transfer cooked veggies and bacon grease to the empty soup pot that the potatoes were in.
  5. Add the 4 tbls flour to the veggies and stir to dissolve flour completely. Cook about 3 mins. (You may want to add a little more flour or bacon grease depending on consistency, but 4 n 4 works well)
  6. Slowly add the saved water from the potatoes to the pot while stirring to combine. The mixture should be quite thick.
  7. Add the chicken broth, ham, salt, pepper, cooked potatoes and crumbled bacon and return to simmer. Stir well to combine the liquids.
  8. Slowly (about a handful at a time) add cheese, let melt a little then stir in. Repeat untill all cheese added and melted.
  9. Add heavy cream and stir to combine.
  10. Return to simmer and cook 5 to 20 mins.
  11. Enjoy! Top with what you like. (Cheese, bacon, green onions, croutons, etc) Or enjoy as is. I like some cheese garlic croutons on mine.

Soup season has arrived and I am always looking for new and delicious soups that my family will enjoy. Using shortcuts like frozen hash brown potatoes, the soup takes only minutes to prepare and the slow cooker does the rest. I made this as described and it was very good. However, I would definitely use fresh potatoes next time even though buying ready made hash browns saves a lot of work. Russet Potatoes- Red potatoes may also be used.

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