March 31, 2025
Hello Foodie Friends
Still really diggin' the comfort food of the season and my crockpot has earned a coveted spot on my kitchen counter for soup time. This POTATO SOUP includes a stovetop method if you're not a "crocker" too. A hot batch of this has such mass appeal, especially when you serve it with some biscuits, rolls, bread, or muffins. for those of you who would consider freezing some I would never recommend freezing soups that have milk they just don't work well due to things separating and ending up grainy.
Enjoy!
Marzee
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COUNTRY POTATO SOUP
INGREDIENTS:
5 cups water
1/3 cup butter
1 Tbsp. parsley flakes
5 rounded tsp. chicken bouillon
1 tablespoon salt
pepper to taste
6 potatoes, peeled & cubed
1 stalk celery ~ sliced
2 onions, chopped
1 to 3 large carrots, peeled and diced
1 13-ounce can evaporated milk
crumbled bacon
DIRECTIONS:
Put all ingredients except evaporated milk into crock-pot. Cook on high 4 hours or on low for 8 hours. Add milk last 2 hours. Put water, butter, parsley flakes, bouillon, salt and pepper into large pot and get heating while you prepare the potatoes. When you put them in the boiling water, start timing: boil 20 minutes. Add celery, carrots and bacon 5 minutes after the potatoes go in. Once potatoes are done pour in the can of evaporated milk, and you've got a delicious dinner!
For thicker soup, before pouring in milk, mix about 1/2 cup of cornstarch with enough cold water to make it pourable, and slowly stir that into the boiling soup. It will thicken quickly, than add the milk.
Category: Crockpot, Soups
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HELPFUL CROCKPOT COOKING TIPS
* Allow sufficient cooking time on "low" setting.
* -- liquids don't boil away as in conventional cooking. Usually you'll have more liquid at the end of cooking instead of less.
* Cook with cover on -- except to "brown off" liquids after cooking
* it's "one-step" cooking: many steps in the recipes may be deleted.
* Recipes that will not adapt well are those that require broiling or deep frying. If you feel unsure about a step, go ahead and follow the recipe's directions as written.
* Most uncooked meat and vegetable combinations will require at least 8 hours on low. Many recipes say "bring to boil, then turn down to simmer." In a crock pot this is not necessary. Simply set the crock pot to low and forget it. Crock pot cooks so gently...so an extra hour on low need not worry you. Any recipe can be cooked on high the first two hours to reduce cooking time, and then turned to low.
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