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!
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!
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
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!
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Potato, Green Bean & Bacon Soup
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
Instructions
Notes
This soup can be lightened up by using either half & half or all milk. If using all milk, it won't be quite as thick of a broth.
Enjoy!! Until next time!
If you make this recipe, I’d love to know! Snap a picture, share the photo on social media with the hashtag #AnAffairFromTheHeart – I’d love to see what you made! – Michaela
This looks so good! I adore soup any time of year, and green beans are one of my favorite veggies! Maybe I need to start growing them. Can’t wait to try this recipe. Yum!
What a hearty and delicious soup Michaela! Pinned and shared!
I love soup in the summertime (or really anytime) and this one looks delicious!
Looks scrumptious to me, and we eat soup in the summer too. I made a red lentil soup the other night! 🙂 Definitely want to try this one!
This was really good. Thanks for sharing this. Top marks.
Simon
Glad you enjoyed! 🙂
Yes! This was delicious! Thank you for sharing -its a keeper =)
I am so happy that you enjoyed it!! My son is requesting it for his birthday — he loves it too!
I blended my soup up. Made it creamy. It was yummy!
Fantastic! Glad you enjoyed!
Loved it!
I’m so glad! 🙂
My Grandmother from Belgium made a soup like this minus the bacon all the time! She used half-half and buttermilk equil parts of both. Over the years I foynd that she also added celery while sauting onions. She also would thicking with flour and water if to thin. I loved when she wrnt to the farmers market and brought back fresh green beans it meant we were having green bean soup with homemade bread!
Thank you so much for sharing your memory with me! ❤️
How would the recipe be if I wanted to put it into the crock pot???