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Loaded Potato (and Cauliflower) Soup takes several minutes to prepare.

Loaded Potato (and Cauliflower) Soup takes several minutes to cook.

Loaded Potato (and Cauliflower) Soup makes 4 servings.

The ingredients for Loaded Potato (and Cauliflower) Soup are:

2 slices of thick cut (nitrate free if you can find it) bacon
Half a medium onion
Half medium head of cauliflower
2 Russet (baking) potatoes
3 cups chicken broth (homemade or low sodium if possible)
? cup evaporated milk
4 Tbsp (1/4 cup) light sour cream
2 Tbsp chives
4 tbsp (1/4 cup) 2% sharp cheddar cheese (or whatever you like, that?s just what I used)
Salt and pepper to taste

Here is how you make Loaded Potato (and Cauliflower) Soup:

Fry up the bacon and remove to drain on a paper towel.Then add the chopped onion to the bacon fat left in the pan and saut? until translucent. If skipping the bacon fat, you can saut? onions in your choice of fat or just skip the saut? altogether, they?ll cook just fine in the broth along with the potatoes and cauliflower. Add in chopped cauliflower, potato* and broth and simmer until the veggies are tender. Then blend (if you have an immersion blender this is the perfect time for it). Add the evaporated milk and stir, then ladle into bowls. Top each bowl with 1 Tbsp light sour cream, ? a slice of the bacon you made, crumbled, 1 Tbsp of cheese and ? Tbsp of chopped chives.*I like to leave one of the potatoes out until after blending, then add in chopped pieces and cook until tender because I like having some pieces of potato in my soup, but it?s totally up to you.Serving Size: Makes 4 servings (1.5 cups each)Number of Servings: 4Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user PIAQUA.

The nutritional information for Loaded Potato (and Cauliflower) Soup is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 4
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 290.0

• Total Fat: 11.6 g
• Cholesterol: 27.5 mg
• Sodium: 301.5 mg
• Total Carbs: 34.9 g
• Dietary Fiber: 4.4 g
• Protein: 12.0 g