Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, creamy ham and potato soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Creamy Ham and Potato Soup is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Creamy Ham and Potato Soup is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have creamy ham and potato soup using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Creamy Ham and Potato Soup:
- Make ready 1 tbsp. olive oil
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup chopped ham
- Prepare 3 tbsp. unsalted butter
- Make ready 2 celery stalks, diced
- Take 2 medium carrots, peeled and diced
- Get 1/2 yellow onion, diced
- Get 3 cloves garlic, minced
- Prepare 3 tbsp. all purpose flour
- Make ready 2 cups unsalted chicken broth
- Get 3 cups milk
- Make ready 1/2 tsp. salt
- Get 1/4 tsp. each pepper, poultry seasoning
- Make ready 1/4 tsp. salt free all purpose seasoning
- Make ready Pinch nutmeg
- Take 4 small (or 2 large) russet potatoes, peeled and diced
Steps to make Creamy Ham and Potato Soup:
- Heat the oil in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Once it's hot, add the ham and cook, stirring often, until the ham has browned up a bit. Then remove it to a seperate plate and cover the plate with foil to keep it warm.
- Add the butter to the pot. Once the butter has melted, add the celery, carrots and onion with a big pinch of salt. Cook, stirring often, for 5-7 minutes, until the veggies have begun to soften. Then stir in the garlic and cook until it's fragrant, another minute or so. Increase the heat to med-high, then sprinkle the flour over the veggies and stir to incorporate it. Cook and stir for 2 minutes.
- Slowly pour in the broth while stirring, then add the milk and all of the seasonings. Let it all come up to a low boil. Once it begins to boil, stir in the potatoes and return the ham to the pot, reduce the heat back down to medium and let it simmer for about 10 or so minutes, until the potatoes are fork tender. Then remove from the heat and serve.
- This soup is also very good with some kielbasa or smoked sausage in place of the ham, pictured below.
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