Best 6 Easy Creamy Potato Soup Recipes

EASY CREAMY SWEET POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Place sweet potatoes into a large pot and cover with water and add a pinch of salt; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until tender, about 20 minutes. Drain. Mash sweet potatoes in a bowl.
• Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. Cook and stir onion and garlic in hot oil until golden brown, about 5 minutes.
• Stir mashed sweet potato into the onion and garlic. Pour coconut milk and heavy cream over the sweet potato mixture; stir. Season mixture with hot sauce, salt, and pepper. Reduce heat to low and cook until heated through and slightly thickened, 15 to 20 minutes.

EASY, CREAMY POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Fry bacon until crisp (see recipe #242966 for homemade bacon bit tips). Remove to paper towels to drain. Reserve bacon grease.
• Meanwhile, boil potatoes in a large dutch oven in water; do not add salt! Drain.
• Pour reserved bacon grease into empty dutch oven; saute onion and garlic in reserved bacon grease until onion is lightly browned.
• Add flour to the sauted onion mixture, stirring to evenly brown; add cream and stir constantly until mixture thickens; add chicken broth and stir until bubbly.
• Stir potatoes, corn and crumbled bacon into the soup; add butter, salt and pepper to taste. (you may not need salt. Bacon is very salty) Simmer until butter is melted and stirred into soup.
• Add milk at little at a time if soup is too thick for your tastes.

EASY CREAMY NO-CREAM POTATO LEEK SOUP

Steps:

• Bring 7 cups of water with 1/2 tsp. salt to a boil.
• Meanwhile, peel the potatoes and cut into slices about 1/4 inch thick.
• Wash leeks carefully, and chop into medium sized pieces.
• When water is boiling, add potatoes and leeks.
• Turn down heat and simmer, covered for 30 minutes.
• Reserving 2 to 3 cups of the cooking water, put the remaining contents of the pot into a blender or food processor.
• Puree until smooth.
• Add butter and blend until smooth.
• Return soup to pot and bring to a boil.
• Add reserved cooking water until soup reaches desired consistency (I like to leave it thick).
• Season to taste with salt and pepper and serve.
• Reheats very well.

CREAMY POTATO LEEK SOUP (REALLY EASY)

Steps:

• In a large saucepan or stockpot, bring potatoes and chicken broth to a boil. Cook until potatoes are tender.
• Meanwhile, place bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain, reserving 3 tablespoons of grease and set aside. Sautee the leeks in the frying pan with the reserved bacon grease 8 to 10 minutes.
• When the potatoes are tender, stir in the fried leeks, heavy cream and bacon. Stir to blend and remove from heat. Serve hot.

CREAMY, EASY NO-PEELING POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Bring potatoes, milk and broth to boil in saucepan, stirring.
• Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer until creamy, about 8 minutes.
• Remove from heat. Stir in butter.
• Ladle into bowls and top with cheese, scallion and/or bacon if using those.

EASY CREAMY & BROTHY POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• peel and chop potatoes.
• peel and chop onion.
• place potatoes and onion in your soup pot and saute in butter and garlic for 5 minutes.
• add chicken stock and stir.
• bring to boil.
• simmer on low-med for 1/2 hour or till potatoes are tender.
• use potatoe masher to mash some but not all potatoes in soup
• stir in cream.
• simmer on low for 5 minutes.
• add seasonings to taste and serve.