This quick and simple recipe makes homemade coffee creamer. Make the dish creamier by using milk with more fat.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 30 mins |
| Servings: | 10 |
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 bunch chopped fresh chives
- 2 quarts heavy cream
- 1 quart milk
- 2 cups water
- 3 teaspoons ground cumin
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 2 teaspoons ground black pepper
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 2 teaspoons dried thyme
- 4 potatoes, peeled and cubed
- 1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves – cut into cubes
- 3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
Instructions
- Melt butter in a large pot over medium heat. Stir in flour until absorbed thoroughly by the butter. Add onion and chives and sauté for 5 minutes.
- Pour in cream, milk, and water, and season with cumin, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and thyme.
- Add in potatoes and chicken. Reduce heat to low and let simmer for 1 hour. Remove from heat, let cool slightly, pour into individual bowls, and garnish each with parsley.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 940 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 32 g |
| Cholesterol | 319 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Protein | 21 g |
| Saturated Fat | 51 g |
| Sodium | 681 mg |
| Sugars | 6 g |
| Fat | 83 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Omg!! Added I can cream of mushroom, season salt, Mrs dash, then at end broccoli and cheese on top! Can’t get enough! (8ppl adjust)
This is a great base recipe to prepare as it stands or modify to suit your tastes. I cut the recipe in 1/2, and instead of heavy cream I used cottage cheese blended smooth in a food processor. Like others suggested, I used a couple bay leaves and bacon bits, also a teaspoon of curry powder. To help thicken it further I used a hand potato masher 4-5 times to crush the potatoes slightly and release their starch. The taste was rich and delightful.
Tasty soup. Adding cheddar is a good move. Definitely supposed to be cups, not quarts.
This is a very rich soup but yummy! I modified the amount of cream to one quart and changed the milk to three cups. The basic recipe was fabulous. I also added carrots and celery! A very versatile recipe!
Personally, I really enjoyed this soup, however, my family thought it was more than a little bland. So next time I make it, I am going to add a couple of pieces of chopped bacon, sautéed with the butter, and more spices…
Made it with chicken stock instead of water and did not add the cumin. But it is still worth a five rating….company next day loved it as well. I shared the recipe at their request.
This soup was awesome! Perfect balance of rich and creamy. I followed the directions except I substituted a quart of half and half for one of the heavy creams (it was cheaper and saved us some fat grams!). I also added a bag of frozen corn to it. Yummy! My kids asked if we could have it every week:)
I did not use the flour as a thickener as the potatoes thicken it enough. Good use of heavy cream left from thanksgiving dinner – 2 cups only. As recommended from previous viewers, I cut the cumin to 1 tsp and used chicken stock instead of water. Very flavourful – will make again.
Absolutely amazing! I added shredded cheese and ritz crackers, made it thicker and even more amAzing! ??
This soup is so rich that it will be saved for special family dinners. That being said, it is outrageously delicious!
This had way too much cumin, thyme and black pepper for me. I added a bunch of vegetables, potato flakes and a can of creamed corn to salvage it. After all that, my husband really liked it.
I only had half and half so I used that instead of heavy cream. I also had plenty of milk but not enough half and half so I switched their volumes and the soup still turned out great. I went light on the garlic and the cumin (by half) and it was just perfect.
I made this soup for the first time. Probably the tastiest flavorful soup I have ever tasted.
This was good, but way too rich for me, even though I subbed half and half for one qt of the heavy cream. My potatoes were really small, so I used 9 of them. If I were to make this again (I doubt that I will), I would dice them much smaller or even cook them and puree the entire thing before adding the chicken. I diced the chicken pretty small and that was better than having big chunks. The onion pieces were disconcerting somehow, I think because of the texture of the cream “broth.” So I think it would benefit from having the onion pureed and possibly some or all of the potato as well. ETA: I found that the soup was just as good cold as it had been hot, and I had a lot left over, so I tried freezing some and reheating it. It reheated very well, the texture did not suffer at all and the flavor was even better. I might make this again after all.
This recipe is fantastic. I read other reviews and they should be quiet. No need to add anything. This is 100% DELICIOUS
I made this soup without the cumin or the fresh chives, because I didn’t have any. I used dried chives instead. It was phenomenal! I have made it twice now, both times with excellent reviews! I want to try and make it next tim substituting half and half for one of the quarts of heavy cream…oh, and I used fat free half and half the 2nd time I made it – it was JUST as amazing!
My husband loved this soup and he is hard to please.He also liked it on bagels/egg/cheese and sauce on top.We also decided it would be good on pasta. The soup is very creamy and wonderful flavor, I added more garlic/onion powder.
Put everything in crockpot without the floured first ingredients. Added cream at end (but only 1 cup). Added 2 cans corn, 3 can green beans.
Very good base for a soup, I did make a few changes I used Light cream instead of Heavy, Instead of water I used chicken broth, I added two extra potatoes and a bunch of different frozen veggies, I let it cook a little longer, but it was worth the wait. Both kids loved it and want me to make it again soon!!
Keep it Light!I substitued the milk for 1% milk, and the heavy cream with Non Fat 1/2 & 1/2. Not a fan of cumin so I used the Thyme & a bay leaf. Also shortened the whole process with leftover chopped chicken and new potatoes, threw in some bacon lite bits. sprinkled with cilantro-Yum.
This soup is EXCELLENT with a few modifications. I added a little less than 1/2 tsp of cumin and is that a typo re: the heavy cream?!?!? I put in 1/2 pint of heavy cream and mine turned at excellent. I also add some carrot slivers and cut up about 4 pieces of celery. YUM YUM! Made it with beer bread and the family went crazy!!