Homemade Potato Chowder Recipes

CHEDDAR POTATO CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, combine the first 7 ingredients. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 10-12 minutes or until tender., Meanwhile, place flour in a large saucepan; gradually whisk in milk. Bring to a boil over medium heat; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Remove from the heat. Add cheese; stir until melted. Stir the ham and the cheese sauce into undrained vegetables; stir until combined.

POTATO CHOWDER SOUP I

Steps:

• Place potatoes, carrots, celery, onion and salt in a large pot with water to cover. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, combine butter, milk and flour in a small saucepan over medium-low heat. Stir constantly until smooth and thick.
• Pour milk mixture into cooked vegetables. Stir in corn and cheese until cheese is melted. Serve.

QUICK POTATO CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, cook and stir onion in oil over medium heat until tender. Add broth and potatoes; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 10-15 minutes or until potatoes are tender., Stir in the corn, 1/2 cup milk, salt and pepper. In a small bowl, whisk flour and remaining milk until smooth. Stir into soup; return to a boil. Cook and stir for 2-3 minutes or until thickened. Sprinkle with parsley if desired.

POTATO, BACON, AND CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• Cook the bacon pieces in a large skillet over medium heat until the fat has rendered, and the bacon is crispy, about 8 minutes. Remove the bacon, leaving the grease in the pan. Stir the carrot, celery, and bay leaf into the bacon grease; cook for 5 minutes.
• Meanwhile, melt the butter in a large pot over medium-low heat. Whisk in the flour, and cook for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Slowly whisk in the milk, and bring to a simmer over medium-high heat. Once simmering, cook for 5 minutes, whisking frequently. Add the bacon, cooked vegetables, potatoes, and corn. Return to a simmer, then reduce heat to medium-low, and cook until the potatoes are tender, about 20 minutes more. Use additional milk as needed to to achieve desired consistency. Garnish with paprika to serve.

POTATO CHOWDER

Steps:

• Melt butter in large sauce pan.
• Sauté carrots and onion until soft, not brown.
• Stir in potatoes, broth, salt and pepper.
• Bring to a boil, simmer 10 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
• Stir in cream and heat through.
• Thicken with flour water.

CORN AND POTATO CHOWDER

Steps:

• Sling the butter into a soup kettle and melt over medium-high heat. Add the bacon and cook till crisp. Scoop out the bacon and drain on paper towels. Save for later--don't nibble too much.
• Pour off all but 1/4 cup of fat from the pot. Toss in the onions and peppers, seasoning them with a pinch of salt and pepper. Cook till soft and then throw in the garlic, cooking it all for 1 minute more. Sprinkle on the flour and mix into the veggies. Dump in the broth and potatoes. Cover the pot and bring to a boil; then lower the heat and simmer for 10 to 12 minutes, or till the potatoes are tender. Add the shredded carrots and corn. Cover and simmer everything 5 to 6 minutes longer to blend the flavors.
• Stir in the half-and-half. Season with the thyme, cayenne, some more salt, and lots of freshly ground black pepper to taste. Sprinkle with parsley and the bacon bits you've been saving. Give it one last stir, and ladle it up piping hot.

POTATO CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a 5-qt. slow cooker, combine the first 5 ingredients. Cover and cook on low for 8-10 hours or until potatoes are tender. , Add cream cheese; stir until blended. Garnish with bacon and chives if desired.

POTATO CHOWDER SUPREME

Steps:

• 1. Place bacon in freezer (SECRET TIP!) before preparing potatoes.
• 2. In soup pot, place cubed potatoes in cold water. Add salt. Cover and bring to boil. Remove lid and continue cooking potatoes until almost thoroughly cooked (will finish cooking upon addition of final ingredients)
• 3. Retrieve bacon from freezer and cut into 1" or 1/2" small pieces. This process allows for ease of cutting slippery bacon. Pan fry, separating bacon pieces.
• 4. Add chopped onion to bacon when bacon is almost done so that onion is fried to a translucent color.
• 5. When bacon and onion are done, sprinkle flour over them and cook flour into bacon grease for 3 minutes. This will thicken soup later. Turn off heat and set aside until potatoes are done cooking.
• 6. When potatoes are done, drain off some water allowing enough water to to cover potatoes to remain in pot.
• 7. In separate bowl, mix soup, milk, parsley, and corn.
• 8. Add soup mixture to pot with potatoes.
• 9. Add bacon and onion mixture to potatoes.
• 10. Add butter to soup and stir gently as to not break up potatoes.
• 11. Reduce heat to med. low and simmer for 20 min.
• 12. Enjoy!

CHEESY POTATO CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a large kettle, cook potatoes and carrots in chicken broth until tender, about 10 minutes. Add the cheese, dill weed, salt and pepper. Cook and stir until cheese is melted. Add bacon, reserving 1/2 cup, and milk. Heat through. Top individual bowls with reserved bacon.

BACON AND POTATO CHOWDER

Steps:

• Fry bacon until crisp, and chop. Drain and use paper towel to soak up excess fat.
• In a large pot, sautee onion and garlic with 2 tbsp bacon drippings.
• Add potatoes, water, bouillon cubes to pot.
• Heat to boiling, then cover and simmer until potatoes are cooked, then add bacon.
• Mix flour with a small amount of evaporated milk, making a paste.
• Gradually stir in remaining milk.
• Add to potato mixture.
• Cook over medium heat until mixture comes to a boil and thickens.
• Stir often to ensure the soup doesn't burn on the bottom of the pot.

POTATO SAUSAGE CHOWDER

Steps:

• Slice link sausage in half, then in half again and lay slices on foil lined broiler sheet. Broil about 10 inches away from heat until Links get slightly charred. Turn and broil once more until side 2 is lightly charred. Remove from oven. DON'T LEAVE IN THE OVEN WHILE DOING POTATOES CAUSE THE SAUSAGE WILL SHRIVEL UP! Umm -- don't ask me how I know that.
• Wash and cut up your small onion (don't peel it). Add the onion, bay leaves and tarragon to either some cheesecloth or an old worn out rag tied with some string to contain the herbs and onion. Throw this in the big pot.
• Meanwhile, cube about 3 pounds skin on (about 8-10 big) potatoes into small cubes, about the size of marbles or make 'em bigger if you like them that way. Smaller cubes means the chowder gets done faster. Thinly slice about 1 pound of potatoes, skin on. Reserve the sliced potatoes. Put the cubed potatoes in the pot and cover with water by 1 inch or so. Add the 1 tsp of chicken buillon. Cook, on high in your BIG pot so you don't have to worry about the potato foam until you get a good boil and then turn down heat to med-high. Continue to boil 25 minutes or longer depending on how big you cubed your potatoes. You want your potatoes soft enough that they are mashable but not so soft that they begin to lose their shape! Stir often to make sure nothing sticks to the bottom of the pot.
• Meanwhile, with scissors, cut those slices of sausage into little chunks. Reserve.
• Stir fry your onion and 3 pepper blend till the onion is no longer opaque. You do not want to cook until the peppers lose their vibrant colors. Reserve.
• After you have been boiling your cubed potatoes about 20 minutes, go ahead and add the sliced potatotes. Boil another 5-10 minutes. At this point, if you didn't add too much water to begin with you should be running out of water and needing to stir more often. If you did add too much water to begin with, then just remove some liquid until you only have about 2 cups left in the pot with the potatoes. This is the time to remove your bouquet garni (the cheesecloth or rag filled with the onion and herbs) add your chicken broth and turn that heat down to medium. Also, go ahead and add the rest of the spices, the sausage you cut up and reserved and the veggies you just stir fried. Simmer, uncovered for about 10-15 minutes on medium heat. Your chowder should not be boiling. Stir often.
• In a large saucepan, whisk together the cold milk and the flour. Simmer, whisking frequently. Add the butter and melt completely, still stirring frequently. After butter has melted, SLOWLY pour the milk mixture into the big pot with the rest of the ingredients, stirring constantly to incorporate. Simmer on LOW another 5 minutes, stirring and scraping bottom of pot frequently.
• Serve garnished with grated cheddar cheese and diced green onions if desired.
• Note: Corn is a wonderful ingredient to add to this chowder as is chopped spinach and kale. Wonderful served with hot cornbread. Yummy.

CHEESY POTATO CHOWDER

Steps:

• In 5-quart Dutch oven, place potatoes; add just enough water to cover. Heat to boiling. Reduce heat; cover and simmer 10 to 15 minutes or until potatoes are very tender. Drain. Reserve 1 cup potatoes; return remaining potatoes to saucepan. In small bowl, mash reserved potatoes with fork; return to saucepan.
• Stir in broth, salt and pepper. Heat to boiling. Add broccoli. Return to boiling; cook uncovered 4 minutes, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat to medium.
• In small bowl, stir flour into milk with wire whisk until well mixed. Add milk mixture to potato mixture, stirring constantly. Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, until mixture thickens and boils. Stir in cheese until melted and smooth. Stir in sour cream and green onions; cook until thoroughly heated.
• To serve, ladle soup into bowls.