Delicious Ham and Potato Soup

This soup is my go-to comfort food, next to mac n cheese (of course!). It's loaded with potatoes and bits of yummy ham. I also make a roux to make it creamy and thick. I found this recipe on allrecipes.com Here's how it goes:

First you dice(really, really tiny) up 1/4 on an onion, 1/2 a celery, and 1/2 a carrot and sweat the mix with 2 tbsp of oil for about 10 mins on low. I use olive oil.

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I then dice up a whole celery and set it to the side until I need to add it to the soup.

 Once the onion, celery, carrot mix is tender and translucent, I add 3 1/2 cups of cubed potato( I leave the skin on), cubed ham, and celery. I then add water until it's covered up. Then I add about 2 tbsp of knorr chicken bouillon.

 After that cooks for about 20 mins, I start making the roux in a separate pan. Roux is butter and flour heated together to make soups thicker.

 Cook it through for about 3 mins.

Then add the milk.

 Add it to the soup.

 Cook it on low for 10 mix. Give it time to thicken up.

 and then you're done!

 

Here's the recipe! Definitely give it a try!