Simple Way to Make Award-winning Creamy Ham and Potato Soup

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, creamy ham and potato soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have creamy ham and potato soup using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Creamy Ham and Potato Soup:

1. Get olive oil
2. Prepare chopped ham
3. Get unsalted butter
4. Prepare celery stalks, diced
5. Make ready medium carrots, peeled and diced
6. Prepare yellow onion, diced
7. Get garlic, minced
8. Get all purpose flour
9. Take unsalted chicken broth
10. Prepare milk
11. Make ready salt
12. Get each pepper, poultry seasoning
13. Prepare salt free all purpose seasoning
14. Prepare nutmeg
15. Get small (or 2 large) russet potatoes, peeled and diced

It can be light enough for a lunch with a sandwich or hearty enough for a main dish along with a salad and crusty bread or biscuits. This version of soup calls for diced cooked ham, but the ham may be replaced with diced and browned smoked sausage. Combine potatoes, onion, turkey, ham, celery, carrots, asparagus, peas, and butternut squash in a large pot. Stir Italian seasoning, white pepper, salt, and bay leaves into soup and continue to simmer.

Instructions to make Creamy Ham and Potato Soup:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. This soup is also very good with some kielbasa or smoked sausage in place of the ham, pictured below.

Combine potatoes, onion, turkey, ham, celery, carrots, asparagus, peas, and butternut squash in a large pot. Stir Italian seasoning, white pepper, salt, and bay leaves into soup and continue to simmer. A rich hearty soup great for left over holiday ham. I use the bone from the ham to make the stock. DS said it was the best soup he ever had!

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