Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, cheesy ham and potato soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Combine potatoes, celery, carrots, onion, ham, and water/broth in stockpot and bring to boil. Then cook over medium heat until potatoes are tender. Stir in the chicken bouillon, salt (if using), and pepper. In separate saucepan, melt butter over medium-low heat.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cheesy ham and potato soup using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Cheesy Ham and Potato soup:
- Prepare 1/2 lb bacon
- Take 3 each potatoes diced
- Get 1 small onion diced
- Prepare 1 large carrot diced
- Take 1 each celery rib diced
- Get 4 tbsp bacon grease
- Take 4 tbsp flour
- Take 2 cup chicken broth
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup ham diced(or more)
- Get 1/2 tsp sea salt
- Take 1/2 tsp black pepper
- Take 8 oz shredded cheddar cheese
- Take 1 cup heavy cream
Add more water if a thinner soup is desired. Add the shredded cheese and ham cubes to the soup and stir until the cheese is completely melted and the ham is heated through. Now it is time to add the milk to the potatoes. And to finish off this delicious Cheesy Potato and Ham Soup - stir in the cheese and cooked ham cubes.
Steps to make Cheesy Ham and Potato soup:
- Cook bacon in a large frying pan. Crumble and set aside. Save bacon grease.
- 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.
- 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.
- Transfer cooked veggies and bacon grease to the empty soup pot that the potatoes were in.
- 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)
- Slowly add the saved water from the potatoes to the pot while stirring to combine. The mixture should be quite thick.
- Add the chicken broth, ham, salt, pepper, cooked potatoes and crumbled bacon and return to simmer. Stir well to combine the liquids.
- Slowly (about a handful at a time) add cheese, let melt a little then stir in. Repeat untill all cheese added and melted.
- Add heavy cream and stir to combine.
- Return to simmer and cook 5 to 20 mins.
- Enjoy! Top with what you like. (Cheese, bacon, green onions, croutons, etc) Or enjoy as is. I like some cheese garlic croutons on mine.
Now it is time to add the milk to the potatoes. And to finish off this delicious Cheesy Potato and Ham Soup - stir in the cheese and cooked ham cubes. This Cheesy Ham and Potato Soup is simple and DELICIOUS!! With potatoes, ham, cheese, scallions, and yummy spices, this soup is FULL of flavor! We tend to have leftover ham after holidays like Christmas and Easter, which is perfect for using in this soup!
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