Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, creamy loaded potato soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have creamy loaded potato soup using 13 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Creamy Loaded Potato Soup:

1. Take 1/2 pound bacon cut in bite size pieces
2. Make ready 1 large onion diced
3. Make ready 3 cloves garlic, minced
4. Get 6 tablespoon butter
5. Prepare 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
6. Make ready 2 cups whole milk
7. Get 2/3 cup sour cream
8. Prepare 1/2 cup heavy cream
9. Get 5 large potatoes cut into small cubes. Less than an inch
10. Make ready 2 cups Cheddar cheese shredded
11. Make ready Fresh or dried chives, optional
12. Make ready 4 cups chicken broth
13. Take Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions to make Creamy Loaded Potato Soup:

1. Cut bacon into bite size pieces and fry until crispy.
2. Use the rendered bacon dripping to cook the diced onion until translucent.
3. Add garlic and stir intil fragrant. Remove from heat.
4. In dutch oven or stock pot, add the chicken broth, diced potatoes, onion, garlic.
5. Bring to a soft boil and cook until potatoes are fork tender.Lower heat to simmer.
6. Put 6 tablespoons of butter in skillet and melt. Add 1/3 cup flour and stir until smooth. Cook about 3 minutes to get rid of raw flour taste.
7. Add the whole milk to the rue mixture. Cook until thick and bubbly.
8. Add the rue to the simmering pot with broth. Stir and simmer until slightly thickened.
9. Add the sour cream, heavy cream, cheese and bacon pieces. Save some bacon for garnish.
10. Heat but do not boil. Serve with extra dollop of sour cream, cheese and bacon.
11. I like chives in mine but its optional. Salt and pepper to taste.
12. You can mash the potatoes or puree half and have a less chunky soup if you like. Plus it thickens soup more. If you like it thicker, add some instant potatoes to your thickness of choice.

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