Slow Cooker Sausage, Corn and Potato Soup
This soup is perfect comfort food, hearty and cheesy, and it's kid friendly too. Serve it with garlic bread or toasted french or foccacia for dipping!
Equipment
- slow cooker
Ingredients
- 1 lb Italian sausage
- 4 cups corn kernels frozen, canned or a combination
- 30 oz. frozen hash browns or tater tots or a combination
- 1 can Cream of Bacon soup or any cream soup
- 1 Tbsp Minced onion
- 4 cups chicken broth
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened {do not use non fat it won’t melt]
- 8 oz grated white cheddar cheese
- shaved Parmesan for garnish, optional
Instructions
- Remove casings from sausage. Crumble.
- Cook sausage in a skillet until it is browned, crumbling into small pieces as you stir during browning. Drain off fat half way through the browning process so the sausage can brown properly if necessary. Drain sausage on paper towels
- Spray or line your slow cooker and add broth then stir in cream soup until it's blended with the broth
- Add minced onion and then potatoes, corn and sausage. Stir, cover and cook on low for 6 hours.
- Cut cream cheese into squares and add to soup along with grated cheddar
- Replace cover and continue to cook on low for another hour
- Stir well to blend in cheeses and serve