Creamy Hamburger Potato Soup with Bacon - Key To My Lime (2024)

• February 19, 2022

This creamy Hamburger Potato Soup is the perfect comfort food. It’s loaded with ground beef, bacon, spices, cheddar cheese, and russet potatoes. Everyone loves this hearty soup!

Best Hamburger Potato Soup

This hamburger potato soup is so delicious! It’s perfectly thick and creamy, and I love having it on these cold winter days.

This soup is super hearty and filling, so it’s perfect when you want to make a soup as a meal (instead of as a side dish).

It’s a really fun soup to dress up just the way you like it. You could make it spicy by adding in some cayenne pepper. You could also sneak in some extra vegetables by stirring in some corn, green beans, kale, or spinach.

Ingredients

Bacon: You can leave the bacon out if you’d like, but I love the extra layer of flavor it adds. If you like bacon cheeseburgers, you’ll probably prefer this soup with the bacon in it.

Ground Beef: Lean ground beef is the best choice for this recipe. You’ll be draining off the excess fat, so starting with a lean ground beef makes that easier.

Onion and Garlic: Both of these aromatics add tons of flavor to the soup while they’re sautéing.

Butter: This is the fat that we’re using to combine with the butter to make a roux. You could use oil instead, but it won’t be as flavorful.

Flour: Flour is the thickener in this soup. It combines with the melted butter, and then that roux coats the ground beef and potatoes before the liquids are added. This allows the flour to mix with the liquids without clumping up.

Spices: Onion powder, dried parsley, fine sea salt, dried basil, and ground black pepper are the spices and herbs we’re using in this dish. Feel free to play with them to get the flavor profile you like best.

Potatoes: Russet potatoes are perfect for this soup because we want them to melt a little bit. The starch from the soft edges incorporates into the soup and helps make it super creamy. You could swap this for frozen hash brown potatoes if you want something even easier.

Chicken Broth: Chicken broth is half of the base of this soup, and it adds a ton of flavor. You could swap this for beef broth if you prefer.

Milk: Milk makes up the other half of the base of this soup, and it helps make the soup perfectly creamy. If you’re worried that your soup will separate, you can either swap this for half and half, or you can use extra chicken broth, and then melt in cream cheese at the end.

Cheese: Freshly shredded cheddar cheese adds tons of flavor, and makes this soup taste like a cheeseburger soup.

How To Make Classic Hamburger Potato Soup

Start by sautéing the sliced bacon, then remove the bacon from the pot and drain the grease. Add the ground beef to the pot. (See the recipe card below for the full printable instructions.)

Once the ground beef is about halfway finished cooking, add in the onions and stir. When the ground beef is browned and the onions are translucent, add in the butter, then stir in the garlic and spices.

Add in the potatoes and the flour. Stir until the potatoes and ground beef are evenly coated.

Add in the chicken broth and milk, and stir. Simmer until the potatoes are fork tender. Make sure to ONLY simmer – if you bring this to a full boil you run the risk of the milk separating.

Just before serving, stir in the shredded cheddar cheese and the cooked bacon. See the recipe card below for the full written instructions, including ingredient amounts, cooking times, and helpful tips, etc.

What Potatoes Are Best For Soup?

It depends on the type of soup you’re making. If you want the potatoes to hold their shape, a waxy potato is best. If you want a super creamy soup, then russet potatoes are best.

Do I Need To Peel Potatoes For Soup?

It really depends on the flavor profile of the soup. For this recipe, it’s best to peel the skins so that the mouth feel is creamy. If you’re not making a creamy potato soup, then you don’t normally need to peel the potatoes.

What Meat Goes With Potato Soup?

My favorite meat additions to potato soup are chicken, ground beef, sausage, bacon, and leftover ham.

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Soup Recipes

If you like this recipe, be sure to check out all of our soup recipes! Some reader favorites are:

• Mulligan Beef Stew
• Crockpot White Chicken Chili
• Chicken Potato Soup

If you’re looking for a hearty soup the whole family will love, try making this creamy potato and hamburger soup!