A Baked Potato, in a Bowl!
I LOVE baked potatoes. Actually, I love just about anything that involved potatoes - potato salad, french fries, potato soup, mashed potatoes... you would be hard pressed to find something involving potatoes that I don't like! So I knew I would love this recipe for baked potato soup when I found it! This actually goes above and beyond your typical baked potato. It includes other vegetables such as carrot, celery, and onion, which add a whole new dimension to the soup. It's very tasty! I chose to garnish my soup just like I would a mashed potato - with sour cream, bacon, and green onions. Not exactly the most healthy choice, but man it was good!
She originally included beer as one of the ingredients, but I don't like the taste of beer, so I omitted it. If you would like beer in your soup, then replace 1 cup of milk with 1 cup of beer, added right before serving the soup.
This was originally posted at my website, SushiDay.com
Ingredients
- 2 large baking potatoes
- 1 stalk celery, chopped
- 1 medium carrot, chopped
- 8 oz yellow onion, chopped
- 4 Tbsp butter
- 2 cups milk
- 2 heaping Tbsp flour
- 1 cup Fontina cheese, finely shredded
- salt and pepper to taste
Cooking Directions
- Prick potatoes with a fork and bake in the oven approximately 45 minutes.
- When they are soft, remove the potatoes from oven, allow them to cool slightly, remove their skins and cube the potatoes.
- Roughly chop the celery, onion and carrot.
- Saute in butter. Allow them to rest in place slightly to develop browned (but not blackened) edges.
- When the onions are becoming translucent, add flour and stir. Allow to cook approximately 3-5 min until the flour slightly browns.
- Remove from heat, add milk and stir to incorporate.
- When there are no visible lumps of flour, add the Fontina cheese. Stir well. Return to a moderate flame, stirring constantly to melt cheese.
- Blend with a hand held blender to desired smoothness. At this point, the mixture will be very thick.
- Garnish as desired. I garnished mine with sour cream, bacon bits, and green onions, similar to how I would garnish a baked potato.
