Instant Pot Potato Soup
You could probably do this in a normal pot too, just requires more time and stirring!
Instant Pot Potato Soup
Time: 1.5 hrs | Difficulty: 2/5 | Recommendation: Weeknight dinner
This potato soup is really creamy and delicious, and can be made in your Instant Pot so you don’t have to do much work yourself! You could also make this on a stovetop, but you’ll just have to watch the pot and stir it throughout the cooking process. Also, swap out any toppings you want for this! I liked bacon, scallions, and cheddar, to make it like a loaded baked potato, but you could do anything you wanted (chives, parmesan crisps, croutons, anything!). This is for a 3-quart Instant Pot (that’s the smaller one), and makes about three to four servings.
Ingredients/Tools:
3 strips of bacon
1 tbsp butter
5 scallions, chopped
1 big garlic clove
3 big potatoes (or 4 small), roughly chopped
1 cup chicken or vegetable stock
1 tbsp cornstarch
1/2 cup + 1tbsp of milk
1/4 cup heavy cream
3-quart Instant Pot
Method:
Chop everything that needs to be chopped. Then press sauté on the Instant Pot and add in the bacon. It will stick to the bottom of the pot a little, but that’s okay, you want some of that stickiness. Remove when cooked and chop into bits.
Still on sauté, add the butter, then the white and light green parts of the scallions, and the garlic. When you can smell the garlic, add the potatoes and stir a bit. The potatoes don’t need to brown, just pick up the flavor.
Add in the stock and set it all to pressure cook for 8 minutes.
While the soup is pressure cooking, stir 1 tbsp of cornstarch into 1 tbsp of milk. Then add that “slurry” to the rest of the milk.
Manually release the pressure when the pot tells you it’s done. Press sauté. Then add in the milk mix and the cream, and stir. Get it up to a boil and continually stir until it thickens up.
Add in some of the greens of the scallions, and add salt, pepper, etc. now.
When the potatoes get soft enough, smush them down with the back of your spoon so it gets real soupy and smooth.
Serve with the bacon bits on top, more scallions, and maybe some shredded sharp cheddar!