4 Ingredient Potato Soup Recipe

This 4 ingredient potato soup recipe is an effortless one-pot wonder that will put time back into your day and a delicious meal on your table. Not to mention, this soup was designed to be a family favorite and offers you an easy, filling, and hearty dinner recipe to savor any day of the week. 

THE BEST 4 INGREDIENT POTATO SOUP

There's nothing quite as comforting as the hearty goodness of a homemade potato soup. And this 4 ingredient potato soups is bursting with savory flavors and features a buttery-smooth, rich texture.

Plus, everything for this easy potato soup recipe cooks in one pot and it's ready in less than 30 minutes. It's ideal for busy those weeknights when you need a delicious meal to fill up the whole family. 

And for a delicious side, you can make this garlic bread, Italian cheese bread, or biscuits to go with the soup! 

Ingredients 

Seriously, this easy potato soup recipe will leave you wondering how just 4 ingredients can perfectly come together to create such a delicious soup.

And you most likely already have all the ingredients sitting in your pantry - or kitchen - to make it!

Anyway, here's what you need to make it:

• 4 tbsp. Butter, divided
• 1 Onion, diced
• 1 pound Russet Potatoes, peeled and chopped
• Water to top
• Salt and pepper

And for some optional Toppings:

• Fried Onions
• Green Onions
• Crispy bacon
• Cheddar cheese
• Sour cream

When making this old fashioned potato soup, you can dress it up with simple additions like green onions, fried onions, crispy bacon, and cheddar cheese. 

It's really a blank canvas for everyone to make it however they want in order to fix blad potato soup.

Oh, and if you want a chunky soup with a little more to it, try this Outback baked potato soup!

By the way, if you have any leftover potatoes you can put them to good use by making this fried potatoes and onion recipe. All it takes is 15 minutes to whip up, and it makes a great breakfast or side dish.

Also, just so you know, you can use yukon gold potatoes to make this recipe. I've found that they work just as good to make this soup!

How to Make Potato Soup 

Now, in our house, we truly think this is the best potato soup recipe.

Not only is it delicious, but - as I already mentioned - it uses just four ingredients and is ridiculously simple to make. Plus, all you need from an equipment standpoint is a single pot - yup, that's it! 

So, let's not waste any more time and get into the recipe!

Step 1: Prepping The Soup

To start, pull out a big pot and put it over medium-high heat. Then, add a tablespoon of butter and the diced onions to it.

Cook the butter and onions for a few minutes until the onions are golden.

While that's cooking, wash, peel, and chop the potatoes. Then, add them to the pot with some water and cook for about 15 minutes or until the potatoes are soft and fork tender.

Step 2: Blending The Soup

Now, return the diced and cooked onions to the pot, adding the rest of the butter, salt, and pepper. 

Then, use an immersion blender - or transfer everything to a regular blender - and blend everything until smooth or until it reaches the consistency of preference. If you want chunky potato soup, just pulse the mixture a few times.

Step 3: Finishing Off The Soup

Once the soup is blended, add it evenly to four bowls.

Then, either top with sour cream, chopped green onions, grated cheddar cheese, bacon bits, and fried onion strings, or make it your own with any toppings you want to compliment the potato flavor. 

However you eat this 4 ingredients potato soup, it'll be delicious, so enjoy!

How To Store Potato Soup 

So, if you're just making this 4 ingredient potato soup recipe for yourself, you can look forward to having the leftovers for the next few days. 

And, if you have leftovers, you can store leftover potato soup in an airtight container in the fridge where it will last for 3-4 days stored like this. By the way, you'll want to store it within two hours of making the soup.

You can also freeze potato soup for an even simpler meal prep option, storing it in individual portion-sized containers for easy storage and reheating. It will last frozen for up to 6 months. 

How To Reheat Potato Soup

Then, to reheat the leftover potato soup, you can either put it in a pot over medium heat until warm or in the microwave for a few minutes.

And if you're starting with frozen soup, make sure to thaw it in the fridge overnight before reheating.

FAQs About This Potato Soup Recipe

What types of potatoes are best for soup?  

All types of potatoes work to make this soup, but I prefer russet potatoes. You may notice a change in consistency depending on which ones you use.

Russet potatoes give the soup a more starchy and hearty texture. Reds are more grainy and textured when blended. And, finally, yukon golds are unbelievably buttery soft, and decadent when processed. Experiment and see what potatoes you like best!

How do you thicken potato soup?

The key to thickening potato soup is cooking the potatoes until they are tender and then blending them together along with the rest of the ingredients. When the potatoes are blended, they combine with the butter to make a thick and creamy soup consistency that is just delicious.

So, you'll want to make sure you blend up everything enough, or the soup will not thicken. I like to use an immersion blender to do this.

How do I spice up bland potato soup? 

I think this soup is pretty tasty on it's own, especially if you add the toppings to it.

But, if you think it is bland, you can spice up the potato soup in a variety of ways. Some excellent spices to add are cayenne pepper powder, ancho chili powder, paprika, or just keep it classic and add in some garlic and onion powder.

Or, if you want to give it a Ranch flavor, add in some Hidden Valley Ranch seasoning.

Really any spices and seasonings will work great in this potato soup. 

Wrapping it all up 

Well, that is how to make potato soup with only 4 ingredients! 

This savory, hearty, and flavorful four ingredient potato soup is an easy soup recipe that the entire family is sure to love.

It's just so delicious on its own and can be customized with any topping you want!

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this creamy potato soup recipe as much as I do.

If you make it let me know what you think below! 

EASY SOUP RECIPES

If you want to make some more soup recipes, we have some on the blog that I think you'll enjoy!

Give one of these delicious recipes a try next:

• Chicken and dumpling soup
• Crack chicken noodle soup
• Seafood soup
• Ground beef vegetable soup
• Sopa de conchas

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