A wonderful, creamy soup with ham and potatoes that is nevertheless healthy because it is loaded with vegetables! A delicious, hearty soup that the entire family will adore! You can use any squash cultivar.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 20 mins |
| Total Time: | 40 mins |
| Servings: | 10 |
| Yield: | 10 servings |
Ingredients
- 3 large red potatoes, diced
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 cup diced cooked turkey (Optional)
- 1 cup diced cooked ham
- ⅔ cup diced celery
- ⅔ cup sliced carrots
- ⅔ cup chopped asparagus
- ⅔ cup frozen peas
- ⅔ cup peeled and cubed butternut squash
- 1 (32 ounce) carton chicken broth
- 1 cup water
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning, or to taste
- 1 teaspoon ground white pepper, or to taste
- ½ teaspoon salt, or to taste
- 3 bay leaves
- ¼ cup butter
- 7 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 2 cups milk
Instructions
- Combine potatoes, onion, turkey, ham, celery, carrots, asparagus, peas, and butternut squash in a large pot. Pour chicken broth and water over mixture; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and simmer soup until potatoes and squash are tender, 10 to 15 minutes. Stir Italian seasoning, white pepper, salt, and bay leaves into soup and continue to simmer.
- Melt butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat. Whisk flour into butter, whisking constantly, until thickened, about 1 minute. Slowly stir milk into flour mixture until mixture it smooth and thickened, 4 to 5 minutes. Stir milk mixture into soup and cook until thickened and heated through, 3 to 5 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 255 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 31 g |
| Cholesterol | 37 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
| Protein | 13 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 814 mg |
| Sugars | 6 g |
| Fat | 9 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Delicious and versatile.
Really good! I skipped the squash, and I started by sauteing garlic & onions in the pot before adding the other ingredients. Also, the roux was A LOT! It made the soup nice & creamy but almost a little too thick. I might add a little more chicken stock and/or water to make the soup a little less thick.
Great soup.. I use turkey stock instead of chicken. It came out great… thank you for the share.
Very delish
Husband said its the best thing I’ve ever made!
This recipe was really easy to follow and my husband loved it.
I added leftover mashed potatoes after veggies were cooked. Also garlic to veggies. Addition of potatoes nicely thickened the soup, making a reux unnecessary and making this a bit healthier. Nice use of leftover Easter ham, thank you!
sprinkling shredded cheese and croutons on top of soup makes it that much better .
This soup was delicious. I made it for dinner tonight and was perfect for a very cold ,windy day. I did not include the turkey as I thought the ham was enough.I had to make some adjustments by using some ingredients but in different form or substitute. I had no Asparagus but had Asparagus broth in my freezer. (I keep a variety of broths in my freezer. They come in handy) So I substituted the cup of water for 1 1/2 cups of Asparagus broth. I used frozen peas instead of canned. I try to stay away from processed foods as much as possible. I did not have Red potatoes but had some beautiful Russet potatoes with nice skins so I kept skins on. I really enjoyed the butternut squash in this soup. This will be a new soup to make on regular bases .
This soup was great! I made it for my daughter recovering from surgery. The whole family came by to see her and wish her well so I doubled the recipe there was plenty left for her family for the next day! I substituted corn in place of celery. Also omitted the turkey, had a bigger portion ham. Everyone loved it. This is a keeper!
Very good. To get a “creamy” soup. I used chicken bouillon and all milk for the liquid in the soup. Did not have turkey, just used more ham. Did not have any peas on hand. Will make this again and hopefully have peas the next time.
My vegetarian, soup hating daughter loved this soup! I used 1/2 and 1/2 instead of milk, only becuase it was about to expire. Soup was delicious!
Just delicious. My husband liked it. I didn’t have Italian seasoning, so used oregano. I put the spices in while it cooked for the first 15 minutes. I think the asparagus added a lot to the flavor. Will make this again. A quick and flavor rich soup.
This is such an easy soup to prepare and so delicious. Made it tonight when it was -5 degrees outside. This is a keeper. Didn’t change a thing in the recipe.
I made attempted this soup for the first time for my moms 50th surprise party and it was the hit of the party!!!!! I am not familiar with cooking whatsoever so having this recipe and the easy directions made it so easy…with that being said it never said anything about taking the bayleaves out after adding them so they stayed in the soup so that was a bummer because I had to pick out the leaves that were crumbled in there. So rookie mistake I know but I would definitely make this again. Loved it and I didn’t change a thing!! For some reason it won’t let me rate it but it’s a 5+ in my book.
This was really pretty great! This was the first soup I’ve made from scratch (not counting jambalaya as a soup) and the whole family is impressed. I followed the directions exactly, as I tend to do for the first time through. The only thing I KNOW I’ll change for next time is significantly cutting the onions. I’m not an onion person (in fact, I buy them pre-chopped!) but I know that for simmering/slow cooked recipes, they help. If you love onion, keep it as is! Also, my little girls said it was a bit spicy so I may use a bit less pepper next time I make it for the family.
I LOVED this! I didn’t have all the veggies on hand but consistency and flavor was perfect!This is now my favorite. Plan to make tomorrow!
This was outstanding! We’ve cut out white and refined carbs from our diet for health reasons. I really wanted a potato soup but couldn’t use white potatoes. This recipe was perfect, even my picky family declared it the best potato soup they’d ever had. I did make 3 changes: 1- left out the corn (empty carbs) 2- I ran it through the blender when it was all done cooking until it was smooth and then added some more ham chunks at the end and 3- substituted 5tbsp of whole wheat flour in the rue
Very good, easy to make. Great meal.
Most excellent yummy:)