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Loaded baked potato soup with bacon and spring onions recipe

Loaded baked potato soup with bacon and spring onions recipe

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Soups are great for adding hidden veg and this is perfect for using up leftover jacket potatoes if you have any. Top with crispy bacon and sour cream for a finishing touch. See method

  • Serves 4
  • 5 mins to prepare and 35 mins to cook
  • 488 calories / serving

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp vegetable oil​
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 1 clove garlic, chopped
  • 1 courgette, peeled and chopped
  • 600g baking potatoes, scrubbed and diced or leftover cooked potatoes if you have them
  • 1 vegetable stock cube, made up to 900ml
  • 150ml pot sour cream
  • 100g smoked bacon lardons
  • 1 spring onion, thinly sliced
  • 4 white batch rolls, to serve
If you don't have sour cream, use crème fraîche or yogurt

Each serving contains

  • Energy

    2050kj
    488kcal     24%

  • Fat

    19g 28%

  • Saturates

    8g 39%

  • Sugars

    8g 9%

  • Salt

    2.3g 38%

of the reference intake
Carbohydrate 61.6g Protein 14.6g Fibre 5g

Method

  1. Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Cook the onion for 5-6mins, until beginning to soften and brown. Add the garlic, courgette and potatoes and cook for 2-3mins. Season with salt and black pepper.
  2. Pour over the vegetable stock and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat slightly and simmer for 20-25mins, until the potatoes are beginning to fall apart. Take off of the heat and stir through 100ml of the sour cream.
  3. Using a handheld stick blender, blitz the soup until smooth. Return the pan to the hob and keep warm over low heat.
  4. Fry off the bacon lardons in a small frying pan over medium heat until crisp. Drain on a plate lined with kitchen roll.
  5. To serve, divide the soup between bowls and swirl a little extra sour cream through the top. Sprinkle over some crispy bacon and spring onions onto each bowl. Serve a roll with each bowl of soup.

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