Recipe: Delicious Cheesy Ham and Potato soup

Cheesy Ham and Potato soup. 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.

This Cheesy Ham and Potato Soup is easy to throw together, and will quickly become a family favorite. It's my favorite meal on a cold chilly day, and tastes amazing. Soup season has arrived and I am always looking for new and delicious soups that my family will enjoy. You can have Cheesy Ham and Potato soup using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Cheesy Ham and Potato soup

1. It's of bacon.
2. It's of potatoes diced.
3. It's of onion diced.
4. You need of carrot diced.
5. It's of celery rib diced.
6. Prepare of bacon grease.
7. It's of flour.
8. Prepare of chicken broth.
9. It's of ham diced(or more).
10. Prepare of sea salt.
11. It's of black pepper.
12. Prepare of shredded cheddar cheese.
13. It's of heavy cream.

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. I feel like this one was a little more cheesy and hearty with the ham. Recipe to make with leftover ham!

Cheesy Ham and Potato soup step by step

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..

Most any kind of potatoes will work in this recipe, so use whatever you like best, or happen to have on hand. You'll definitely want to tuck this recipe away so it's handy when you have holiday leftovers. Add potatoes, ham, garlic powder and pepper and stir to combine. Turn the pot off by selecting CANCEL, then secure the lid, making sure Good recipe to use leftover ham and potatoes. This is a lot of chopping so next time I will use my food processor.