Today was 90 degrees out but that did not stop me from making soup! Casey and I love soup! We always bring Campbell's Chunky soup to work for lunch. For awhile now I have been wanting to make soup. I've always been a little nervous about it though. Since I am determined for Summer to end and Fall to start, I decided to just find a recipe, get the ingredients and make my own soup!We even turned the AC up so it felt right eating warm soup!
Ingredients:
1 Bag of Ore-Ida frozen shredded hash browns
1/2 a onion chopped up in little pieces
3 cans of chicken broth
1 can of cream of chicken soup
1/4 teaspoon of ground pepper
1 8 oz package of Cream Cheese
Optional:
Bacon...lots of it!
Shredded Cheese
Seasoning Salt of your choice. I used Red Robin's seasoning salt.
First, get your crockpot out! Put hash browns, onion, broth, cream of chicken soup and pepper in the crockpot. I used a little bit more pepper than just 1/4 teaspoon and used a little more than 1/4 teaspoon of my seasoning salt. It made the soup turn out a little spicy and extra flavorful! Next, turn the crockpot on and let cook for 6-8 hours. I started it at noon and ended up eating around 6:30pm. At this point your soup will look and smell like Chicken Noodle Soup.
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| Yes my crockpot was filled to the top! |
On the 5th hour, take your cream cheese and put it in a bowl. Microwave it for about 25 seconds or until it is just starting to melt. Then ladle at least two scoops of the soup into the bowl. Use a whisk and mix until the cream cheese is well blended with the soup and there is no cream cheese chunks! Take that mixture and pour it all back into the crockpot and mix around! Cream cheese is what makes your soup creamy. Continue cooking the soup. If adding bacon to the soup, start cooking it and chop it into small pieces. About fifteen minutes before turning the crockpot off, throw the bacon in there.
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| The final result! |
After you dish up your soup, add some shredded cheese, more bacon and saltines! Then enjoy the most delicious soup! We really loved this soup! So much! It even left us with a bunch of leftovers that we can bring to work. This is at the top of our dinner list now!
I'm going to make this when it gets a little more fall like outside.
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