Recipe: Tasty Ham and Potato Soup

Ham and Potato Soup. Combine the potatoes, celery, onion, ham and water in a stockpot. We don't care for cooked celery so I use a little celery seed. I use this recipe as a base.

Like my Peasant Chicken Soup, this surprisingly healthy Ham and Potato Soup is another of the early recipes I learned in college. It saw me and my friends through many an illness and late-night study session. Slow Cooker Ham and Potato Soup that's creamy, full of vegetables and chunks of ham, finished off with milk and sour cream for a easy and delicious hearty soup. You can have Ham and Potato Soup using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Ham and Potato Soup

1. Prepare 10-12 lbs of ham.
2. Prepare 1 of whole onion, peeled.
3. Prepare 2 of bay leaves.
4. You need 2 cups of chopped onion.
5. It's 2 lbs of carrots sliced.
6. You need 8 stalks of celery sliced.
7. It's 5 lbs of red potatoes (1.5 in cubes, NOT peeled).
8. Prepare 2 cups of 2% milk.
9. You need 1 1/2 tsp of garlic powder.
10. It's 1 tsp of onion powder.
11. It's 1 tsp of paprika.
12. It's 1 tbs of dried parsley.
13. It's 1 tbs of real horseradish.
14. You need of Rough.
15. It's 1 1/2 sticks of butter.
16. You need 2 cups of flour.

Seriously, this delicious recipe is everything I love in a warm soup during the wintertime. It's nice and rich and creamy (using only milk, no heavy cream). It's chock-full of veggies and garlic and lots of golden potatoes. It's the perfect use for leftover ham (or even bacon) after a big holiday meal.

Ham and Potato Soup step by step

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Cook ham for 1.5-2 hours. Let stand 30 minutes. Slice ham best you can leaving about 2 cups of meat on the bone..
2. Place bone in a large stock pot, add in enough water until it covers the bone. Add 1 whole onion and 2 bay leaves. Bring to a boil. Simmer for 1.5 hours..
3. Take out ham bone and whole onion. Add in chopped onions, sliced carrots, and sliced celery. Simmer for 25 minutes..
4. Add in potatoes, simmer for 35 minutes or until potatoes are fork tender. To help break up potatoes smash is the back of a large spoon or whisk..
5. Add in milk, garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, parsley, and real horseradish..
6. In a small sauce pan melt butter on medium high heat. Add in flour and stir constantly until consistency of wet sand..
7. Once the soup comes back to a low boil, whisk in rough. Mix occasionally for the next 10 minutes and enjoy!.

With all this cold weather lately, all I want for dinner is soup! There's nothing that tastes better than a warm bowl of soup on a cold How to make ham and potato soup. It's the perfect creamy soup recipe to make on a cold. This ham and potato soup is made with diced ham, Russet potatoes, carrots, celery and white cheddar cheese, all in a thick and creamy broth. An easy dinner option that's hearty, comforting and quick to make!