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My Favorite Potato Soup Recipe with Bacon!
Hello there friends, today I'm going to show you how to make my favorite Potato Soup. Perfect for a cold or even hot day! I love putting a little corn salsa in the middle of all my potato soups to give them a wonderful, and delicious texture!
Recipe Video
Recipe Ingredients
Makes 8 to 10 Servings
For the Soup:
- ½ pound Bacon chopped
- 3 large Onions chopped
- 1 stalk Celery finely diced
- 2 cups Leeks chopped
- 5 large Baking or Yukon Gold Potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
- 2 tablespoons Fresh Thyme & Sage chopped
- 10 Garlic bulbs
- 8 cups Chicken Stock or whatever you need to cover the vegetables
- 1 cup Heavy Cream
- Salt and Freshly Ground Pepper to taste
For the Potato and Corn “Salsa”
- Olive Oil
- 1 cup Onion dice fairly small
- 2 cups Yukon Potatoes cut into medium to small dice, poached in water first
- 2 cups Corn
- 2 tablespoons Fresh Herbs, sage, rosemary or thyme chopped
- Salt and Pepper to taste
Recipe Instructions
For the Soup:
- In a soup kettle, heat the bacon and cook for 5 minutes to release some the fat, add onions and sauté for 3 to 4 minutes or until light golden brown. Add the celery, leeks, potatoes, fresh herbs, garlic cloves and chicken stock. Cook for 45 minutes or until all vegetables potatoes are very soft. Add the cream and insert a hand blender into the soup kettle and puree and process until very smooth. Adjust salt and pepper.
For the Potato and Corn “Salsa”
- In the meantime in a frying pan, heat some olive oil and when hot add the onion and cook until light golden brown add corn and potatoes, cook for a few minutes and adjust seasoning with salt and pepper.
- Add the potatoes and corn to the creamy soup, and Decorate with bacon bits as the chef did in the video.
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Thank you this recipe was delicious. My family and I loved the flavor and the different texture the soup brings with the corn, onion and potato salsa.
I will be making this one again.
I had potatoes that needed to be used up so I decided to try this soup. It turned out amazing!!! Thank you for sharing. For others, it made 20 cups of soup! I calculated the calorie count to be 170 calories per cup which is pretty good if you are watching your weight for a flavorful filling soup. Once again kudos the Chef Jean Pierre for such an entertaining educational video.
Can you freeze this soup?
Yes of course you can
Thank you for your inspiring videos! One question though, what brand are the large pots with the one main handle?
Thank you again!!
John, I believe they are Vigor pots. They are available at the web-resturant store Chef mentions often. They are steel, with a clad bottom. Not very expensive.