Cheesy Ham and Potato soup.
Hello everybody, it's Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I'm gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, cheesy ham and potato soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have cheesy ham and potato soup using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Cheesy Ham and Potato soup:
- {Take of bacon.
- {Make ready of potatoes diced.
- {Prepare of onion diced.
- {Take of carrot diced.
- {Make ready of celery rib diced.
- {Take of bacon grease.
- {Take of flour.
- {Make ready of chicken broth.
- {Get of ham diced(or more).
- {Take of sea salt.
- {Make ready of black pepper.
- {Make ready of shredded cheddar cheese.
- {Take of heavy cream.
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..
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