Easy Creamy Potato Soup

This homemade potato soup recipe makes the creamiest, most delicious soup. It’s easy, loaded with potatoes and veggies, and the broth is so creamy!

This is my favorite potato soup because it is pure comfort food, but not so rich that you can’t enjoy it regularly. Joanne is a major fan of this soup! We like to make this all year around and it is ridiculously easy to whip up for a quick tasty dinner.

I also love that you have two options for serving. You can keep it on the brothy side (like our photos) or blend it for a thick, creamy soup. If you love this here are two other favorites, see our sausage and potato soup or this potato and leek soup.

Key Ingredients

• Potatoes: You can use any potato in our recipe, but I highly recommend Yukon Gold potatoes. There’s no need to peel them, and when cooked, they are buttery and almost melt in your mouth.
• Veggies: This is potato soup, but we love adding a few cups of extra veggies. Onions are a must, carrots add color and some sweetness, and chopped celery adds flavor and texture.
• Garlic and rosemary: Make this the tastiest potato soup I’ve made. I’ve found some potato soup recipes too rich or lacking in flavor, but that’s not a problem with this easy potato soup. I love rosemary, garlic, and potato together.
• Butter and flour: The combination of butter and flour thickens our soup. Unsalted butter or salted butter works just fine for this recipe. You will need to season with salt to taste. I’ve added tips for omitting the flour in the recipe below for gluten-free potato soup.
• Stock or broth: For the best potato soup, use good-quality chicken stock from the store or homemade. When reaching for store-bought broth, we go for low sodium. We also look for a store-bought broth that’s darker in color (usually means more flavor), and since it usually has more of a backbone, we like to buy boxed bone broth (we use homemade bone broth sometimes, too).
• Cream: We add a little cream to this soup. The chicken stock adds flavor, and the cream makes the broth creamy and more luxurious. You can also try half-and-half, sour cream, or plain yogurt.
• Cheese: This is optional, but if you have some on hand, it adds a lovely richness to the soup. Use sharp cheddar for cheesy potato soup that rivals cheesy baked potatoes. We also love stirring in Gruyère or parmesan.

Find the full recipe with measurements below.

How to Make the Best Potato Soup

Tip 1: Cook veggies in flavored butter. We love to cook our vegetables with garlic and rosemary in butter. The kitchen will smell incredible and this adds so much flavor.

Tip 2: Thicken with a little flour. So that our soup thickens nicely, you’ll stir in some flour and cook until toasty. The mixture of butter and flour helps thicken the soup. Then, it’s time to add the broth and potatoes and simmer until tender, which takes about 20 minutes.

Tip 3: Finding the perfect blend. Finish by stirring in cream and some cheese if you plan to add it. You can serve the brothy soup or blend some to thicken it even more. I like to blend a portion of the soup (about 2 cups). Then, I add the blended mixture back into the soup.

What to Serve with Potato Soup

I love serving this potato soup with bread for dipping. A few favorites from the blog are this homemade focaccia bread, this roasted garlic bread, and our beer bread! Consider a light salad on the side to balance the soup’s richness. I love this strawberry balsamic salad or this easy chopped salad.

As for topping potato soup, I love scattering over fresh herbs (especially chives), but you can add more cheese, cooked bacon, sour cream, or crispy fried shallots.