Homemade Slow Cooker Potato Soup
Delicious and inexpensive potato soup. And you get to throw it in the slow cooker and it will cook it for you. So simple!
Servings: 1 crock pot
Ingredients
- 7 potatoes, peeled I used russet
- 1 carrot use more if you want more, I used 3 baby carrots
- 1 26 oz container of chicken stock
- 2-3 strips of bacon crumbled more if you want more
- 1 cup cheddar cheese
Instructions
- Peel the potatos (keep the skins on if you want to) and cut them into cubes.
- Add the potatoes and chicken stock into the slow cooker.
- Chop the bacon until it's fine, or you can leave it chunky. I made it fine (to hide it from the kids).
- Chop the carrot super thin and cut it up as fine as you like (the smaller you cut it up, the faster it will cook).
- You will want to cook this on low for 6-8 hours, so start it in the morning if you want it for dinner.
- Once it has been cooking for a few hours, stir it up a bit to loosen the potatos (you can do this when you get home as well).
- Add the cheese after it has been cooking a while and right before you serve it, so the crock pot doesn't burn.
- Stir it in and when it melts it's ready to serve!
Notes
Alternative way to cook: If you want to speed this recipe up, you can cook the potatoes on the stove (like you do mash potatoes, but instead of using water to boil them in, use the chicken stock, and add the carrots). Get your slow cooker turned on while the potatoes are cooking and when they are soft move it from the stove to the slow cooker. Add the bacon and let it cook for at least 4 hours, you want the flavors to meld with the bacon. Add the cheese at the end.