Hey Cookaholics, Chef Kendra here and today we're making a delicious
potato soup! so let's you and i do we do and make it we're gonna get this on
medium and we need some bacon in this pan
because potato soup with bacon is amazing but almost anything
yeah a little bacon too the game is up
you don't like bacon don't use bacon you can use turkey bacon you can use
you can use ham i'm gonna stick my bacon thing on top
careful i don't want to scratch the pan i'm gonna let that bacon cook
give this bacon a flip
now i'm just going to remove this
and turn the pan off and grab our bacon
and i just have a plate over here with paper towel on it
i'm gonna remove this pan to the back here and let that cool down
before i remove the oil and wash it i tell you guys i love this bacon press
i love it i still prefer to cook the bacon in the oven
i'm cooking a lot of bacon but if i'm cooking bacon in a pan
and i love this thing not expensive
goodbye
i have some minced onion here and i'm gonna mix it
with some our chicken broth
using a spore state cheddar shredded natural wisconsin sharp new
york sharp california mild and vermont sharp
cheddar cheeses i actually like this brand not sponsored
but this is really my favorite brand of packaged shredded cheese
and this one has a lot of flavor somebody asked me once
why why do i use sweat cheese so much i mean convenient it's easy the same
reason why people use chicken breasts all the time because
it's convenient it's easy
it makes you know a lot of people poo poo
convenience items when cooking
i don't because i feel like it makes cooking more enjoyable for you
by making it easier or saves you time go for it i don't have many pet peeves
a couple of them are people being meeting each other for no reason
and food snaps i'm a chef but i'm not a food snob
and i don't care if that food snob is a chef or just a regular person
put snobs annoy the heck out of me i'm just going to chop up some green
onions guys
i'm going to use these like traditional onions in the dish
this and the minced onions gonna make a nice flavor
we'll get some water into this big old
stockpot that's enough
i'm gonna add some salt to this stock pot
clean these potatoes
now i'm just going to clean these potatoes we're not using the peel but
still you want to start off with rinse
potatoes you don't want to get yucky stuff in the clean potato
underneath that makes sense i think it makes sense
get the main part for this
and then the end pieces i do this that's just my
way of doing it
now i'm gonna cube these potatoes and rinse them off again
and get them into my boiling water now if i was working at the restaurant
we trimmed the edges and make sure everything was perfect
but this is hard to cook cooking baking we're not
we're not wasting potatoes
now i'm going to rinse these potatoes off
and you can see they're just in bite-sized pieces
now get them in this boiling water but i'm reduce the heat
to medium get them in this boiling water and i'm
gonna put the top on i'm gonna let them cook for eight to ten
minutes so over here i've got my trusty large
i'm going to take the top off here we go guys i'm going to add
about a tablespoon of bacon fat to this
and our butter let me get it over medium heat
just like so
now while this butter starts to melt i'm gonna chop up this bacon
and it's okay to use the one for the vegetables because this bacon
is already cooked
just gonna rough chop it i'm gonna take this off now that it's
boiling and reduce the heat to medium back over
to the butter in the oil now i'm gonna add the green
onion tops
cook and stir that for a few so we've been cooking this for about
four or five minutes now i'm going to add in the garlic
stir that in real good and i'm gonna cook this for about a minute
all right now we're gonna switch utensils
and i am going to whisk in some flour
now i'm going to whisk in the chicken broth
can you even see that switch hands
this is me pretending to wish because i'm left-handed
at this point i just i'm gonna whisk off and on but what i
want to do is to bring it to a boil not a hard boil
just when it starts to bubble and what that
does is it ensures you that your flour has
actually cooked i'm let it do this thing
i'm about to take the potatoes off and drain them
i love the fact that you can just pick it
these pants
pick up the handles love that
put them back in a pot
because i'm going to add them to the soup soon
so we're just going to let let that do its thing and then we'll be back
this is the other half of the bacon and our greens from our green
onions aka scallions that we're gonna use
for garnish this is just what we're looking for
so we're gonna add our potatoes
turn that down to medium low now we're gonna add these mint onions
that's been soaking in that broth they're nice and soft i'm gonna add a
ton of flavor
i'm gonna add black pepper
sour cream goes in
add the bacon
and the cheese
now i have some salt here but i'm not going to add that salt until i taste
this
all right guys this is going to turn the heat off
i'm going to give it a couple more turns of this spatula look at that
that's amazing now i'm going to ladder up some see if
it needs more sauce
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