Living on a potato farm you can imagine just how many meals we eat with potatoes. This isn’t really a bad thing because my family loves them and yet another bonus is how versatile they are. Potatoes can quickly go from being a main dish like this Crock Pot Potato Soup to a side dish like these Oven Roasted Potoatoes & Mushrooms. Heck I even have several dessert recipes that include potatoes!
It’s been an unusually warm winter for us this year but that doesn’t mean I don’t crave a few hearty soups. The other family members are not big soup eaters so if I want to indulge in a hearty soup recipe I lean heavily towards this Crock Pot Potato Soup because it’s one of the few everyone will eat seconds on, heck even firsts.
Easy Crock Pot Potato Soup
Easy Crock Pot Potato Soup
Ingredients
- ½ cups Diced Onions
- 4 cups Cubed Russett Potatoes – Skin On
- 1 teaspoon Seasoned Salt
- 4 cups Chicken Stock
- 2 minced garlic
- 8 ounces weight Cream Cheese
- 9 slices Bacon
- ½ cups Shredded Cheese
- ¼ cups Green Onions Chopped
Instructions
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In a crock pot, combine onion, potatoes, seasoned salt, stock and garlic cloves. Cook on low for 8-10 hours.
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Blend or Puree about 1/3 of the mixture (an emulsion blender works great).
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Return to the crock pot with the rest of the soup and add the cream cheese block. Leave your cream cheese as a block and let cook for 30 minutes on low.
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Stir in the cream cheese until well blended.
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Top each bowl with crumbled bacon, shredded cheese and onions.
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Note: if you like the soup a little thicker you can mash some of the potatoes up and it chunky and so creamy and just like those at the restaurants.
Brandy,
This looks so easy to prepare! Just dump in the cream cheese? My kind of finishing touch, for sure. I usually have bacon in the freezer (I have no self control around bacon so I bake it and put away the majority as soon as it’s cool) so this soup truly is from pantry staples.
Thanks!
It’s a wonderful ending touch to add creaminess and flavor.
MMMM, I love potato soups. Yours sounds so good with the cream cheese and bacon, too.
I love how simple it is to make and tastes delicious!
I am such a spud girl, I am going to explore your blog for your tater recipes!
Potatoes are a staple in our house. I will be sharing plenty more!
I love potato soup, but I don’t love standing over the hot pot stirring for an hour! lol. Making it in the crock pot is genius! I’ll definitely be making this in the next couple of days! Thanks for the recipe- pinned and yummed 🙂
This sounds delicious! I love using my crock pot!
This looks great and being in the slow cooker makes it simple enough.
This is a great recipe. I love how you bring the ingredients together.
I’m loving how yummy this hearty soup looks! Potatoes are one of my favorite foods, and we like them in all forms. 🙂 I’d be interested to hear how you use them in desserts too! I hope you can stop on by and share this or any other recipe with us on Five Friday Finds!
My husbands mother has a recipe for using leftover mashed potatoes in brownies that we all adore. Also spudnuts are a large treat in our community. Thank you for hosting!
Yum! I love using my crockpot too! Thank you for linking up at #HomeMattersParty and hope to see you again soon!
This may be a silly question, but are the potatoes supposed to be cooked or uncooked when you put everything into the crock pot?
Cheri-
They are uncooked. Remember this is a small batch though so if you are going to make a larger batch you will need to increase the cooking time.
Thank You! I will try it soon.