Crockpot Loaded Baked Potato Soup

This Crockpot loaded baked potato soup recipe with fresh potatoes is super easy to make and so delicious! You only need a few ingredients and it only costs about $10 to feed up to 6 people. If you loved our Crockpot potato soup with frozen hashbrowns but want homemade from scratch this is the one.

How to Make Crockpot Potato Soup

We make this comfort food year round, because you just throw it all in until tender. Even making it in the summertime. Serve it with some easy rolls with yeast and you’re set. Make it as creamy or chunky as you want to and it’s a hearty meal that kids and adults love. Dress it up with potato toppings of your choice for even more fun.

Crockpot Loaded Potato Soup

You can make this a number of different ways. You can simmer it on the stovetop until ingredients are tender, or if you’re in a real hurry you can make this Instant Pot potato cheese soup recipe too! Follow the instructions in the recipe card below to make cheesy and let’s get started.

Let’s talk a little bit about slow cooking shall we?? First off I have a few different varieties and I love them all. Each one has an occasion to be used like….

1. This is my favorite 6 quart programmable one with a locking lid so it’s great for bringing to a potluck too.
2. I prefer not to use liners, but rather just spray olive oil inside before adding my food for easier cleanups.

Let me give you a peek of my pretty thang I bought recently. It goes with my kitchen so I can just leave it out on the countertop all the time. 😉

Can you cook raw potatoes in a slow cooker?

Absolutely. Not only do we love this slow cooker potato soup, but Crockpot baked potatoes and try slow cooker cheesy potatoes too. The low and slow approach is great to getting this starch nice and tender.

Should you peel potatoes for potato soup?

I do not. I like the added texture and nutritional benefit from leaving them on. If you choose to remove them just know it won’t be as chunky as if you left them on. For a very creamy version yes you would want to peel them and maybe even use an immersion blender at the end to get it really smooth.

Easy Potato Cheese Soup Recipe

There are only a few ingredients and everyone just loves it. It is quite inexpensive to make as well which I love. The perfect slow cooker soup recipe to make when you have leftover ham after Easter or Christmas time.

If it isn’t after the holidays with leftovers I will just grab a ham steak in the meat department. They’re precooked, cheap, and you can even buy it already diced many times. In other cases I will use ground beef to make this other Crockpot Creamy Potato and Hamburger Soup version of this.

You will use your favorite Crock pot for this. If wondering What to do with Leftover Baked Potatoes this is a terrific option to reduce waste. If already cooked you can reduce cook time by half. It will fit in a 6 quart or larger. Double this easily if you want to but you’d need a 12 quart pot for that and it would take a little while longer.

Loaded Potato Soup Ingredients

1. Potatoes – I like using red or russet potatoes
   1. Keep all the pieces the same size so they cook evenly. If you like a chunkier soup make the pieces a bit bigger (but still diced or they won’t cook thru). 
   2. Smaller will make it thinner, depends on your desired consistency
2. Shredded cheddar cheese – we like sharp and a lot of it. Stir it in at the end so it melts and then put a bit at the top when served too. 😉
3. Cream of mushroom soup
   1. use canned, make your own homemade cream of mushroom, you can opt for cream of potato if you prefer
4. Sour Cream
5. Milk
   1. could use heavy cream

What can You Add to Crockpot Potato Cheese Soup?

1. Ham
2. Chives
3. Cooked bacon bits
4. Diced green onions

Crockpot Loaded Potato Soup with Frozen Potatoes

Cutting potatoes don’t need to be perfect but just cut each one in half and then criss cross cut so they are diced and all of similar sizes. If you are using frozen bagged potatoes then you can skip this step. Use the larger chunks instead of shredded so you are left with more texture but the timing won’t change.

Put the diced potatoes in your crockpot on low and add 2 cans of cream of mushroom soup. Any brand will do, I usually just use whichever is on sale. 😉 Add a dash of salt now if you wish. Then cook until everything is tender, a few hours will do. Add sour cream and enough milk to thin it to your liking.

You’d follow the same idea for our Crockpot ham and potato soup with heavy cream too. Even make it in the middle of summer because it’s just that good. The first thing you want to do is dice the potatoes.

How to Make Loaded Potato Soup on Stovetop

If you want to make this comfort food using hash brown potatoes on your stovetop just follow the directions below. 

• Instead of putting everything in your crockpot you’ll need to put the soup, potatoes and ham/bacon in a large pot on low.
• Cover and cook until the diced potatoes are very tender.
  • Remember to stir 

Then add your milk, sour cream and cheese and continue to stir on low until the cheese melts and the soup is warm again with the cold milk added to it. Bagged frozen potatoes can be used to make this slow cooker potato soup recipe as well. Just cuts down on the overall cook time is all.

Easy Crockpot Potato Soup

Here is a quick rundown of how to make this. There is a printable recipe card at the very bottom you can keep handy, or just come back every time. 😉 We love seeing you of course and like to hear your additions as well so we can try them the next go around. You can tweak this quite a bit to meet your needs. I have even made a dairy free version of this using almond milk and dairy free sour cream.

1. Dice potatoes and add them to the crockpot with your cans of cream of mushroom soup, (could use cream of chicken soup), bacon bits and/or diced precooked ham.
2. Stir well so all is combined.
3. Let this cook on low all day (at least 6-8 hrs on low, high for 4 hrs but you at least need a good 4 hrs. on high.) Longer and slower is better if you ask me. 
4. 30 minutes before serving add your milk, cheese, and sour cream. Stir and put top back on for about 30 minutes so cheese can melt. Serve with shredded cheese and chives on top.

Substitutions you could make: If you like it smoother you can use a potato masher to mash potatoes right in the pot. Chicken broth could be used instead of milk if you need a dairy free soup option.

Seriously the best soup ever….and it cooks by itself! All 5 of us clean our bowls when this meal is served for dinner. It is a great meal that warms the belly and can get you talking at the dinner table about other easy meals you might want to try too!

We used Hormel Cure 81 Ham Steak for this. We like the taste of this brand. It’s lean and 1 piece is the perfect amount for this recipe.

Now add a shake of Hormel real bacon pieces too. Stir the mixture and set it on low with the top on all day!! I use a larger slow cooker for this recipe even though it doesn’t completely fill it because it cooks more evenly. 

About 30 minutes before you’re ready to eat add the sour cream, milk, and cheese. Stir, recover, and serve 30 or so minutes later with toppings like more toppings!