Slow-Cooker Loaded Baked Potato Soup
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By Diane Unger
Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2015
Hearty potato soup loaded with bacon, cheese, chives, and sour cream should be a winner. But to get it right in the slow cooker, we had to rethink the potato.
WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS
To achieve the ideal creamy and silky smooth texture we were looking for, we ditched the typical russet potato, and turned to less starchy red potatoes. For the base of the soup, we cooked bacon until crispy (reserving it for garnishing the...