Name: Creamy Potato Soup Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 50 min
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons butter; 1 large onion (chopped); 3 carrot (and chopped); 3 celery sticks (chopped); 2 garlic cloves (sliced); 1 ½ teaspoons dried thyme; 1 teaspoon salt; ½ teaspoon black pepper; 1 ½ pounds yukon potatoes (peeled and cubed into ½-inch cubes); 4 cups vegetable broth; 1 cup whole milk; Sour cream (for serving); Chives (for serving)

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Creamy potato soup in a bowl garnished with sour cream and chives.

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My Creamy Potato Soup is So Good!
Ingredients You’ll Need
Popular Additions
How to Make Creamy Potato Soup
Recipe Tips
What to Serve
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Creamy Potato Soup Recipe

My Creamy Potato Soup is So Good!

This is one of those soups that kinda looks blah because, after all, it’s a blended soup. (I think blended soups aren’t as exciting as a chunky ones!) But once you taste the flavor of this creamy potato soup, you’ll understand why it’s so good.

I use onion, carrots, celery, and garlic as the base, which is very common in a lot of my soup recipes. But the simple thyme seasoning goes with the veggies and the potatoes so well. When blended with vegetable broth and milk, it creates a creamy, rich soup that you would think was made with heavy cream. It’s a great soup for dunking grilled cheese into or even a chunky piece of homemade olive bread. And the best part is you can roughly chop everything because it’s all going to be blended anyway!

Ingredients You’ll Need

Ingredients for recipe: potatoes, onion, carrots, celery, seasoning, butter, milk, and broth.

Butter: Olive oil also works!
Onion, carrot, celery, and garlic: As I mentioned above, these are the backbone of flavor for this potato soup!
Dried thyme: I usually have this in my pantry, but you can use 3 tablespoons of fresh thyme instead.
Potatoes: I like to use Yukon potatoes because they’re super creamy, but another yellow potato would work!
Broth: Vegetable broth keeps this soup vegetarian, but chicken broth is fine too!
Milk: Whole milk adds the best flavor, but you could use low-fat or plain, unsweetened non-dairy milk.

Popular Additions

Cheese. Try mixing in a few handfuls of grated cheddar cheese. I also like to put out grated cheese and let everyone top their own bowls with it!
Leeks. Use leeks instead of onion in this recipe for a variation on potato leek soup (one of my favs!).
Roasted broccoli. Stir in roasted broccoli after blending the soup! You could also just add it as a topping.
Croutons. I love adding croutons to soup (there’s something about that crisp-soggy texture).

How to Make Creamy Potato Soup

Onions, carrots, celery, garlic, thyme, salt and pepper in a pot with melted butter. — **Step 1:** Melt the butter in a large pot. Add the onions, carrots, celery, garlic, thyme, salt, and pepper.

After cooking veggies. — **Step 2:** Cook the vegetables until they’re softened.

Potatoes and broth added to pot. — **Step 3:** Add the potatoes and the broth, and bring to a boil, then lower the heat to a simmer, cover the pot, and cook until the potatoes are tender.

After cooking potatoes with milk being poured in. — **Step 4:** Remove the pot from the heat and stir in the milk.

Immersion blender dipped inside soup, slightly blended. — **Step 5:** Using an immersion blender, blend the soup until smooth.

After blending soup smooth. — **Step 6:** Taste for seasoning and serve with sour cream and chives!

Recipe Tips

Use the right kind of potato. Because this soup has minimal ingredients, the potato does a lot of the work to make it creamy! Choose a creamy, yellow potato like Yukon gold for the best texture.
Soften but don’t brown the vegetables. This will draw out their more mellow flavors! Browning them adds its own flavor, which this soup doesn’t need.
Add the milk after you take the pot off the heat. This helps keep it from curdling and gives you a smoother sauce.
Be careful when blending. An immersion blender will make it easy to blend the soup right in the pot! But if you don’t have one, blending in batches with a traditional blender is fine. Just make sure to cover the lid with a kitchen towel and hold it down when blending. The pressure from the steam of the hot soup can cause the lid to fly off!

Creamy potato soup in a pot with a ladle lifting some up.

What to Serve

Spoon lifting up a bite of homemade creamy potato soup.

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