Cheesy Ham and Potato soup
Cheesy Ham and Potato soup

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, cheesy ham and potato soup. One of my favorites. For mine, 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 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.

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

When I'm in the mood for comfort food, I prepare a pot of this soup. It is always a treat on a cool fall day.—Melissa Sherlock In a saucepan, bring potatoes and water to a boil. With potatoes, ham, cheese, scallions, and yummy spices, this soup is FULL of flavor! We tend to have leftover ham after holidays like Christmas It takes a little more time than our other Potato soup, but it tastes PHENOMENAL.

Steps 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.

I feel like this one was a little more cheesy and hearty with the ham. Russet Potatoes- Red potatoes may also be used. Learn how to make this Cheesy Ham and Potato Soup on the Stove Top, Crock Pot, or the Instant Pot! It's thick and creamy, easy and cheesy! This made from scratch Cheesy Ham and Potato Chowder is thick and creamy and the perfect way to breathe new life into your leftover ham.

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