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Chilled Golden Potato Soup with Bacon, Sour Cream and Green Onions
2014-01-14 09:33:20
Serves 6
This recipe is similar to the classic Vichyssoise potato and leek soup but adds bacon and other garnishments to make it a whole new adaptation and one your family will LOVE!
Ingredients
- 1⁄2 Lb Bacon, cooked crisp and chopped (reserve grease)
- 2 Tbsp. Bacon Grease (butter can be substituted)
- 1 each Medium Sweet Onion, chopped
- 2 cups Chicken Stock
- 3 e.a Yukon Gold Potatoes, peeled and sliced
- 1⁄2 cup Sour Cream
- 1⁄2 cup Half & Half
- 1 pinch Ground Nutmeg
- 2⁄3 cup Crumbled Bacon
- 1⁄4 cup Green Onions
- 1⁄2 cup Sour Cream
- - Salt and Pepper, to taste
Instructions
- In a medium soup pot, cook bacon until crisp then remove and reserve bacon leaving about 2 Tbsp. of bacon grease in pot.
- Chop / crumble bacon and set aside.
- Saute onion in bacon grease until transparent and tender. Do not brown.
- Add chicken stock and potatoes and gently simmer until potatoes are tender. Turn off heat and allow the soup to cool.
- In a blender, puree the cooled soup mixture. Strain if desired afterwards and chill.
- Add half and half and sour cream to the chilled soup mixture and season with nutmeg, salt and pepper. (Thin with additional chicken stock if desired.)
- Portion soup in bowls and garnish with crisp bacon, green onions and a dollop of sour cream.
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