Potato Bacon Soup (Tim Hortons dupe)

  My boyfriend had been requesting this for so long, his ultimate comfort food.

He loves Tim Horton's potato bacon soup but around here its almost impossible on any given day to find a location making it so I went on a mission to try and duplicate it and came across a recipe similar to this.

Now, my boyfriend eats ALOT so I make way more then this but for normal families this will be more then enough.

Ingredients:

1 pound of Bacon Chopped

1 medium Red Onion

6 - 7 cups of potatoes cut into cubes

2 cans of cream of chicken soup

2 cups of sour cream

2 1/4 cups milk

salt and pepper to taste

Fresh Chives or green onions (Optional)

Instructions:

 

• First start with cutting your bacon and then frying it for about five minutes.
• Add the chopped onions and saute 3-4 minutes. Drain and put aside.
• Cook cubed potatoes in a large pot in 3 cups of water. Cook for 15 minutes or until the potatoes are soft (Do not drain, as the starch water will be used in the base of the soup)
• Turn element down to low and add sour cream, cream of chicken soup,bacon and onions, and milk and stir well until thoroughly mixed.
• cover and let simmer for 15 minutes to allow the soup to be brought up to temperature as well as to let the flavors soak in and mingle.

This usually takes about 15 minutes for prep time and about an extra half hour cooking time. I would say it would feed about 4 adults or more with some left for leftovers, although in my house I make at least double this because my boyfriend enjoys taking it to work the next few days. I decided to go big and buy a loaf of sour dough to make a bread bowl, but I wouldn't again because a) it is huge and I wasn't able to eat the whole bowl and b) because it went soggy and unpleasant. I also think sour dough was just all in all not a good bread pairing for the soup and wont be trying it again LOL