Potato, Green Bean & Bacon Soup

Name: Potato, Green Bean & Bacon Soup
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 4 cups fresh green beans, ends snipped and cut into small pieces; 1 pound bacon, cut into small pieces; 1 medium onion, chopped; 4 medium sized potatoes, peeled and 1/8'd; 1 pint heavy cream; 2 cups 2% milk; Salt & Pepper to taste

January 23, 2019October 18, 2023

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Flavorful creamy broth, with fresh green beans, potatoes and bacon, make this a great soup year round, but especially when you have those fresh garden green beans!

Potato, Green Bean & Bacon Soup — An Update! After posting this recipe in July of 2015, it went bonkers!! It’s been so well received, and pinned so many times!! I have had many readers write to me telling me just how much they love it, too.

“Yes! This was delicious! Thank you for sharing -its a keeper =)” – Kelly P.

Of course, when you can pick the beans right from your garden, this soup is extra special, but living in the midwest, that isn’t the case. These days, though, fresh green beans in the produce section a the grocery have been really good. So, we eat this soup year round. That makes my youngest son very happy!! Today when I updated this post, I also added a recipe video, so you could see how it’s done!

^LOVE IT? Pin it!^

Begin original post: Some of you may be thinking, “she is sharing a soup recipe, in July? In this heat?” We eat soup year round in our house. It’s one of our most favorite meals. The best part of this particular recipe is making it when the green beans are fresh from the garden, or your local farmer’s market.

This soup recipe is from my Mother-in-law, and was my husband’s favorite growing up. It was one, that I have never made in our 24 years of marriage. I guess the reason being, it took me until the last few years to really love fresh green beans. Weird, right? As a kid, I told my mom I didn’t like them because they were “fuzzy.” I am head over heels in love with them now, though, and am sorry I missed out on so many years of such a good thing!

Recipe Favorites with Fresh Green Beans:

This recipe isn’t really a “recipe” when it gets told by my Mother-in-law, or my sister-in-law. “Throw this in, throw that in, sometimes I add this, sometimes I use that.” So, me making this for the first time, I measured while I cooked, and when he walked in the door, I waved him over to the stove, lifted the lid and said “I finally made your favorite soup!” He tasted it and said it was perfect!

#Winning

Ingredients in this Potato, Green Bean and Bacon Soup:

green beans, onion and potatoes
bacon
heavy cream, milk
salt & pepper

After you cook your bacon in your Dutch oven, remove it, and most of the grease, leaving some in the bottom of the pan. Add in onions and sauté them until translucent. While you are cooking your bacon and the onions, steam your green beans and your potatoes. Add bacon and green beans back into the pot.

Mash your potatoes, and add them back in. Add in cream and milk and Salt & Pepper to taste. Simmer until heated through.

You can lighten this soup up by using half & half or all milk, but I made it full on fat because I had heavy cream in the fridge to use. It was rich, creamy and so delicious!

Enjoy!! Until next time,

Yield: 8 servings