Happy 2012! I think it will take me awhile to get used to saying 2012, but I like it. I am excited for the New Year. We recently asked on our Facebook page what recipes you would like to see in 2012. Several people asked for soup more soup recipes. We love making soup and we are always happy to meet our readers requests, so today we are sharing one of our favorite soup recipes-Potato Rosemary Soup.
When we brought Caleb home from the hospital, life was a little crazy. We were lacking sleep and still adjusting to having a baby in the house. Cooking dinner was not on our to do list. We were eating a lot of sandwiches, freezer meals we had previously made, and cereal. One night we got a call from our good friend, Janette, who told us she was coming over to cook us dinner. It was music to our ears. She is a fabulous cook and knows her way around the kitchen-especially our kitchen. She is a designer and helped us with our kitchen remodel. She is the best!
She made us Potato Rosemary Soup, salad, bread, and pumpkin cupcakes for dessert. We were spoiled! Everything was delicious, especially the soup. Luckily, she shared the recipe. We have been making the soup ever since. It has become a staple in our house. It is so easy to make and very comforting and filling. The potato soup is hearty and thick with a hint of rosemary. It also has feta cheese which adds a nice creamy texture. We like to make a big pot so we can enjoy leftovers for lunch or dinner the next day.
Warm up with a bowl of comforting Potato Rosemary Soup. It is the perfect meal for a cold winter’s day.
Potato Rosemary Soup
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 medium onion diced
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 5 large Russet potatoes washed and cubed (we leave the peels on, but you can peel the potatoes if you wish)
- 2 15 ounce cans vegetable broth
- 1/2 cup water
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups milk we use skim
- 1/2 cup feta cheese
- 1/2 tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary
- Salt and black pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a large stock pot, heat olive oil and sauté onion until tender, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook for 2 minutes. Add potatoes,vegetable broth, and water to the pot. Bring to boil and reduce to medium heat. Let potatoes cook until tender, about 20 minutes. With a slotted spoon, remove 2 cups of the potatoes. Set aside. Puree the remaining potatoes with an immersion blender or put potatoes in a blender or food processor.
- In a small sauce pan, melt butter. Stir in flour and cook for 2 minutes. Whisk in milk, bring to a boil and simmer until thickened. Slowly stir mixture into large stock pot with the pureed potatoes. Bring to a boil and reduce heat to a low simmer. Stir the 2 cups of potatoes back into the soup.
- Stir in feta cheese and fresh rosemary. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. Cook for an additional 5 minutes. Serve warm.
Have you tried this recipe?
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A delicious looking and sounding soup!
Happy New Year!
Cheers,
Rosa
My husband would adore this soup. I need to try it 🙂
Looks comforting and delicious Maria! Isn’t it wonderful when friends share their yummy recipes?!!! Happy New year to you
This sounds just amazing. How good is rosemary with potatoes? Perfection. So Josh (my Josh ;)) isn’t a feta fan. Can you taste that its feta? Another recommended cheese? He doesn’t like goat either. Mozzarella? I’m soup obsessed right now- we’re doing chili tonight
Cheddar, potato, and rosemary would be good! We are loving soup right now too!
Potato soup is definitely my favourite. I could linger over a comforting noel of this soup any day of the week.
This looks amazing! Do you have any idea if it freezes well? I’m never sure when it comes to dairy products and freezing. Thanks!
Hi Dana! I haven’t tried freezing this soup yet, but I am sure it would be fine. Enjoy!
This looks and sounds absolutely delicious and perfect for January! Love the addition of feta, too!
We have a huge HEDGE of Rosemary in our backyard. Here in California it grows like weeds all year long 🙂 Needless to say, we use a lot of rosemary in our dishes. Looks awesome!
Holy crap yes. I love this soup!
I love this! Rosemary is such a delicious flavor with potatoes and I love it because it’s the only plant that stays alive on my front steps throughout the winter 😉
Oh my goooooodness! I bet this smells just a amazing as it tastes!
This sounds so so good. What a sweet friend to come over and do that for you guys!! Happy 2012!!
I’m always looking for more soup recipes. Thanks for sharing this! A very happy new year to you!
Love, love, love this. I haven’t made or eaten potato soup in so long. I love the addition of rosemary, just perfect!
I love potato soups and love that you combined rosemary!
YUM!!! This looks incredible!!!!
This potato soup looks delicious. And, the pictures are just beautiful, too.
I love potato soup, and I especially love the unexpected additions to this – like the feta!
This soup is the perfect way to kick off my healthy eating intentions for the new year…so gorgeous and creamy, but without the cream! And rosemary! I can practically smell the scrumptious herb aroma from here. Thank you!
the more soup the better lately…this sounds so delicious!
this sounds fantastic!
Ooooh, this soup looks wonderful! I love the feta – so much flavor. And it is perfect soup weather. Happy New Year!
I love the combo of potatoes and rosemary! The ingredients sound heavenly together 🙂
This soup looks thick and delicious! I love rosemary with potatoes, this has to be amazing! What a great friend you have.
I love that this soup has feta in it! What a great twist on potato soup…never seen that before!
This sounds so comforting! Already forwarded to friends 🙂
This looks fantastic. I have a baked potato soup recipe that mixes pureed cauliflower with potatoes (to lower the carbs/starch). I’ll have to add rosemary and feta like this next time! 🙂
Rosemary and potatoes go together like…..peas in a pod! Looks beautiful and nourishing.
Cheers to you – Karen
I love a nice cozy bowl of soup for dinner and potato rosemary sounds wonderful together.
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Oh I absolutely love rosemary and potato together. I will have to make this recipe and use GF flour. The pictures look gorgeous!
What a warm and comforting soup! I need a bowl of this tonight, this would definitely warm me up! 🙂
This is the time when I hate to live in the south side of the world, I cannot think on soup right now because we are in summer, and this soup looks so perfect…!!!
This looks SO comforting! And I love the idea of adding feta!! 🙂
This sounds like the answer to any winter nights meal ~ delicious 🙂
Maria!! I have a little tear in my eye–that sounds just like my mom’s potato soup (minus the feta.) I will most definitely give it a go!
I hope it lives up to your mom’s soup:)
Had this for dinner tonight… I used red skinned white potatoes and we all loved it!
Glad you liked the soup! Thanks for letting us know.
Ironically, I have a friend who is about to deliver and have been thinking on a meal I could cook for them soon after. What a lovely idea that your friend shared not only her culinary skills but her company as well. Sometimes its a really nice diversion from the 360 your world makes with a new little one in the family. I’m so glad you shared this recipe. I love soup in Winter.
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Soup is one of my favorite things to make {and eat!}. I love the combination of potato and rosemary, and the feta seems like it would be a great addition. It’s definitely going on my list of things to make :). Happy New Year!
love potato soup! so satsifying!
What could be substituted for the Feta Cheese ?
Thanks !
You can use cheddar cheese. It would be good with the potatoes and rosemary too.
Perfect comfort food!
Ahh you have to love the friends that come cook for you! What a blessing! I wouldn’t have thought to use feta in something like this but it sounds like a delicious combo. Yum!
Yum. It looks comforting and delicious. Happy New Year!
I love this type of soup and this one looks particularly delicious!
Feta and rosemary in potato soup? Divine. Thanks for sharing.
I’m with the majority of your fans – LOVE soup and this one looks so good, especially with that piece of crunchy bread to dip in it!
Having a baby really throws you for a loop! Nice friends came to our rescue too!
I love potato soup! The idea of flavoring it with feta and rosemary is wonderful!
Such a great week for soup! Yum!!
Ah…potatoes and rosemary – 2 of my favorite things! Happy New Year!
Oh wow I love potato based soups! they’re so hearty and filling!
This recipe looks fabulous!!! I especially like that you have used every day ingredients, so I won’t need to spend extra money for things I would probably never use up. I will definitely try this recipe. 🙂
When friends step in after a baby is born it is the BEST!! lucky you 🙂 this soup sounds amazing.
This sounds heavenly! I am *always* in the mood for a potato soup! It’s very comforting. Even for those of us here in SoCal that are missing the slice of cold winter weather this year.
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What a wonderful soup! I cant’t wait to try it, I’m a huge soup lover!
Oh wow, I love how rich and creamy this soup looks and without adding a whole bunch of cream! Potato soup is such a comfort food for me, my mom always made it on Sundays with fresh bread, but her recipe is cream laden and not good for the waistline. I am going to try this recipe next time I am in the mood for my comfort food soup.
This soup is just want I need to kick this awful cold of mine. Thanks for the recipe! Now I just hope Mr. Chocolate & Carrots will be up to whipping it up! 😀
Feta and potato? Yum! This sounds perfect on a cold day!
Potato soup is one of my all-time favorite dishes! Beautiful photos!
Steve loves potato soup! I’ll have to make this for him!
Thanks for linking up to I’m Lovin’ It Maria! I featured your post in my wrap up http://tidymom.net/2012/great-ideas-10/ Have a great weekend!
Thanks Cheryl!
I love getting recipes from friends. That was super nice of her to cook for you!
My boyfriend’s been begging me for potato soup lately, and, fortunately, we’ve got all the ingredients for this in the kitchen. Woohoo! Thanks for sharing!
OMG..I made this today and it is DELICIOUS!!! SHAZAM! One of the best soups I have ever had! Thanks for sharing!!!!
I made this last night sans the cheese and plus a little more broth- SO good! Love love love! Thanks for the reicpe
I made this the other night and have now blogged it. Thank you for sharing such a delicious and easy recipe!
http://kelseysappleaday.blogspot.com/2012/01/meatless-monday-potato-rosemary-soup.html
HELP! I am making this and before adding the roux my soup already looks like semi-soupy mashed potatoes, it sure doesn’t need further thickening!
It would be extremely helpful if you could let us, or me at least, know how many potatoes you used in pounds. “Large” is subjective and I used WAY too many!
But MAN it sure smells good! And it does have a good flavor, but I’m thinking it won’t be soup tonight. (No extra broth in the cupboard to thin it down.) 🙁
And can roux be saved and reused later?
I WILL try this again. 🙂
You can add water if you don’t have any broth. Yes, the roux can be saved and reused later-keep in the refrigerator for up to 2 days. Sorry, we never weigh the potatoes. I will next time we make it.
Oh, man, you were right on it with an answer! Thank you!
I ended up serving it “as is” and just told my family that I over-guessed on the potatoes. They all loved it anyway and the leftovers were fabulous! 🙂
I made this for my sister and brother-in-law for a Sunday night dinner. It was part of a Christmas gift I gave my sister. Anyway, my brother-in-law loved this soup so much he had three servings! It’s a great soup and I’ll have to make it again before the weather gets too warm to enjoy it.
Just made this for dinner, and it was delicious! Thank you for such a yummy recipe!
Is the total 15 ounces of broth? Or is that the size to the cans. How many cups would that be? Two?
No, you need two 15 ounce cans of broth. So, 30 ounces total…which is over 3 1/2 cups of broth…closer to 4 cups.
One of the best homemade soups hands down. I skipped making the roux at the end in favor of adding 1.5 cups of heavy cream instead. Made an additional batch for a friend who’d just had gastric bypass surgery and wasn’t allowed solids just yet. I simply blended all the ingredients in my food processor and it turned out perfectly. She loved it! Thank you for sharing this gem!
So glad you liked it!