How To Make Crockpot Potato Soup
Enjoy a flavorful and creamy bowl of potato soup for dinner tonight! Toss everything in the crockpot, and let it do the easy cooking for you.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 8slicesbacon
- ½onion,diced
- 2lbred potatoes,peeled and diced
- 2garlic cloves,minced
- ½tspdried thyme,or 2 fresh sprigs
- ½tspblack pepper
- 2½cupschicken broth,or stock
- ⅔cupheavy cream
- 1tspcornstarch
- 1cupcheddar cheese,shredded
- ½cupsour cream
- 3green onions,tops sliced thinly
Instructions
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Cook the bacon until crispy over medium-high heat. Remove from the pan, and reserve the fat.
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Add the onion to the reserved bacon fat, then cook until tender.
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Add the potatoes, garlic, thyme leaves, onion, salt to taste, and black pepper.
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Add the chicken broth and stir to combine.
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Place the lid on the slow cooker, then cook on High for 4 hours or 6 to 8 hours on Low, or until the potatoes are fork-tender.
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Once softened, use an immersion blender to blend about half of the soup, then slightly mash the remaining potatoes.
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Combine the cream and cornstarch in a bowl, then add them to the slow cooker along with cheese, sour cream, and half of the bacon.
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Place the lid back on the slow cooker, then let the soup warm through on High for 15 to 20 minutes or until thickened.
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Serve the soup topped with green onions and remaining bacon, and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 531.21kcal
- Fat: 37.81g
- Saturated Fat: 18.09g
- Trans Fat: 0.31g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 12.99g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 3.65g
- Carbohydrates: 32.12g
- Fiber: 3.06g
- Sugar: 5.90g
- Protein: 16.83g
- Cholesterol: 97.16mg
- Sodium: 588.85mg
- Calcium: 219.09mg
- Potassium: 976.91mg
- Iron: 1.83mg
- Vitamin A: 209.51µg
- Vitamin C: 16.07mg
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