Description

Celebrate cooler weather with this comforting and satisfying soup. It's a delicious soup that is full of diced ham, potatoes, carrots, celery, onion, heavy cream or milk and sour cream. Serve it with a crusty bread to soak up all of that wonderful goodnes

Ingredients

• 7-8 c. Russet potatoes, scrubbed, peeled and diced
• 1 yellow onion, peeled and diced
• 2 large carrots, scrubbed and diced
• 1/2 c. celery, scrubbed and chopped
• 2-3 c. ham, diced (or 16 oz. packaged cubed ham)
• 2 t. parsley
• 1 t. thyme leaves
• 1/4 t. black pepper, to taste
• 4 - 5 c. chicken stock/broth
• 1 t. Kosher salt, or to taste
• 1/4 c. flour
• 1- 1/ 1/2 c. heavy cream or whole milk
• ½ c. sour cream
• Optional garnishes: chopped parsley, chopped green onion and/or shredded Cheddar cheese.

Steps

1. Line a crock pot liner to the base of a large 6 quart crock pot for easy clean up.
2. Add diced potatoes, onion, carrots, celery, ham, parsley, thyme, black pepper and chicken stock to the crock pot. Add salt, to taste a little at a time.
3. Cover; cook on Low 7 -8 hours or on High 4-5 hours.