Crockpot Potato Soup is such a frugal budget meal!
If you'd rather make Potato Soup on the stovetop, here's our family's favorite stovetop potato soup recipe. It's a fantastic recipe, but requires a little more work than letting Mrs. Potts handle the cooking for you! 🙂
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We made this Slow Cooker Potato Soup on Christmas Eve, and goodness gracious, it was perfect! I've made it once before but had forgotten just how yummy it was, however my husband decided after tasting it that this is the only Potato Soup recipe I need to make from here on out.
I did use half and half this time (before I'd only tried it with skim milk, which worked well too but it never thickened quite as much.)Â It was so simple, and would be a great penny-pinched meal to enjoy on a cold winter night this week!
Slow Cooker Potato Soup
Ingredients
- 4 slices bacon
- 1 1/2 cups chopped onions
- 5 cups peeled russet potatoes about five potatoes
- 1 medium stalk celery
- 1 carton 4 cups chicken broth
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. pepper
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups half and half or milk we used skim milk and it was fine, but it might be a little creamier if you use half and half
- 8 oz. shredded Cheddar Cheese
Instructions
- In skillet, cook bacon over medium heat, until browned & crispy. Remove from skillet, and drain on paper towels, then refrigerate until dinner time.
- In bacon drippings, cook onion over medium heat 4-5 minutes, stirring frequently, until tender.
- Spray slow cooker with cooking spray. In cooker, mix onion, potatoes, celery, broth, salt & pepper. Cook in slow cooker on low for 6-7 hours.
- In small bowl, beat flour and half and half (or milk) with wire whisk until well blended; stir into soup.
- Increase heat on slow cooker until high. Cover; cook about 30 minutes longer or until thickened.
- Stir in cheese until melted & smooth. (If you want fewer lumps in your soup, you’ll want to mash the potatoes a bit with a potato masher.)
- Crumble bacon, serve on top of soup.
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I had to modify this slightly for what ingredients I had on hand, and exclude the bacon bc I am vegetarian. I thought it tasted okay, but the cooking time seems way off? I cooked this on high for 8 hours before the potatoes were finally done. Or were they supposed to be chopped up into very little chunks, or else pre-cooked? Still, a very easy little soup to whip up!
Hi Laurie! I tried this tonight and it was so good! I don’t usually mash up the potatoes and I did just enough that there were smaller chunks. I think it helped make it creamer. This was super easy. I made it with a pan or rolls! Thank you!
Laurie do you know about how many this feeds? Need to feed 50-75 people at church and curious about how many batches we might need?
was wondering the servings as well!
I think it would feed 6-8 adults depending on how much they eat.
So glad you liked it Liz – thanks for letting me know (we love it too!) 🙂
I was looking for a slow cooker recipe for potato soup when you posted this. Only change was I had a ham bone I boiled down for stock so I omitted the bacon and chicken broth. THIS WAS FANTASTIC!!! I was very concerned the soup would not get thick enough for me in the crock, but it turned out superb! Will definitely be making this again in the crock! And soon!
Yay! So glad you liked it Xana ~ thanks for letting me know! 🙂
Sounds delicious! Thank you for sharing.