It's the time of year, when many of you are looking for meatless options for dinner. We try to stick with the "no meat" Fridays during the Lenten season and I know many of you out there are vegetarians. Even if you're not celebrating Lent, or a vegetarian, sometimes we just don't feel like eating meat.
When I was pregnant with my son, I didn't have much of an appetite the first four months or so. The LAST thing I wanted was meat. I made A LOT of meatless soups during this time, LOL! Even though I'm not pregnant now, my husband and I often grow tired of eating meat. We often venture over to meatless options.
Because we're not vegetarian at my house, I often make my soups with beef and chicken broths or bouillon cubes. Please, by all means, if you're vegetarian, use vegetable broth or bouillon cubes. It will still turn out delicious!
As always, please feel free to tailor this soup to your family's likes/dislikes! Add more or less veggies, depending on what you like. I think everyone will clean their bowls with this delicious, Creamy Potato Soup!
Creamy Potato Soup
Ingredients:
8(ish) potatoes (I used Idaho), chopped into bite-sized pieces
1 can cream of celery soup*
4 cups water
3 chicken bouillon cubes
1 medium onion, chopped
2-4 carrots, chopped
1-2 stalks celery, chopped
3 green onions, chopped
1 8oz. block cream cheese, chopped into cubes
1/4 cup sour cream
2 tsp. garlic powder
1 tsp. onion powder
1 1/2 tsp. pepper
1 tsp. salt
Directions:
Place all ingredients into your crock and stir.
Cook on LOW for 8-10 hours......stirring occasionally.
Yup! That's it!!! Nothing fancy!
Garnish with some more green onions, serve and enjoy!
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Happy Slow-Cooking!
Hope
Editor's note: This post was changed from an earlier version. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Mackey Chandler
9:27 am on Sunday, March 4, 2012
Sounds good. Cold weather food for sure. I'll try this tomorrow and add a little chopped parsley.
Hope Comerford
1:37 pm on Sunday, March 4, 2012
Great plan!
Lela
2:23 pm on Sunday, March 4, 2012
wonder if you can reduce the calories by using fat free cream cheese and sour cream -
Hope Comerford
2:33 pm on Sunday, March 4, 2012
Lela, I wouldn't recommend fat free products, but low fat would work ok. I remember reading that the fat free ones don't do well in the slow cooker!
Hope Comerford
2:34 pm on Sunday, March 4, 2012
Hi Everyone!
To make this meatless, it should read above "Cream of Celery Soup" not "Cream of Chicken," and again, I used Chicken Bouillon Cubes, but by all means, use Vegetable Bouillon!
Thanks!
Hope
Carol Osborn
3:55 pm on Sunday, March 4, 2012
It is cooking as I type. Tastes WONDERFUL! Great smells coming from the kitchen, without a lot of work, which will make it taste even better!
Hope Comerford
7:00 pm on Sunday, March 4, 2012
Glad to hear it Carol!
Kristina Bowles
5:39 pm on Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Mine didn't come out looking like this, it came out looking rather curdly and gross :(
Hope Comerford
9:41 pm on Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Sorry to hear that Kristina! That kind of thing happens to me sometimes too :( It's discouraging, but sometimes the Crock has a mind of its own!
Shannon
7:40 am on Wednesday, March 7, 2012
I looked up other recipes similar to this and they called for dairy products to be added at the end. Trying it today :)
Hope Comerford
11:48 am on Saturday, March 10, 2012
Shannon, as long as they are warmed up or room temp first, otherwise, they will still curdle.