A Guide to Making Cheddar Cheese Soup

With the winter months coming, there is something that many of us are looking to make plenty of. It keeps us warm and goes down easy. It’s even something that is great when one is sick. With that being said, you might be looking for a new soup recipe. That is why you need to know how to make Cheddar cheese soup.

In order to make Cheddar cheese soup, you are going to need a few things. What are you going to need? You’ll first need one cup of milk. You’ll also need two medium carrots that you need to have grated. You’ll also need four cups of grated cheddar cheese as well as a cup and a half of potato flakes. One will need three slices of cooked bacon that has been chopped. You’ll also need five cups of either vegetable or chicken broth. Then you will need one clove of garlic and you’ll want to mince that. You’ll need a fourth of a teaspoon of black pepper and one teaspoon of dry mustard. You need one onion and you need to chop that. Then you’ll need a dash of salt.

Now, you need to take your garlic and your onion and with this, you are going to sauté these two. As you do that, you need to add your broth and your carrots. You will cook this for five or six minutes on medium heat.

As you do this, you will then add your potato flakes, dry mustard, pepper, and salt. This you will stir until it’s well blended on low heat. When you do this, you add your cheese and milk. You want to melt this cheese on low heat so as not to burn the cheese. You don’t want to allow it to boil as you will find that this will scald the milk. All you have to do from here is add your bacon. When you add the salt, it’s okay to salt it to your taste. There are some who like more salt then others. This is perfectly fine.

Once you are done with this, it’s time to ladle up. You can make quite a bit of this and freeze it and then take it out when you are ready for something that you don’t have to cook. There are many who do this and it’s just something that will make your taste buds come alive. Now, this is what’s cooking for dinner. It’s just one of the many things that you can do with cheese. It might even become your favorite soup. It became one of the leading soups for people who are soup people. There are other things you can add. You don’t have to use bacon. Some use sausage. There are tons of ways to make this your own signature recipe. These are just the basics that you’ll need in order to make this. Grab the items that you will need and make dinner for everyone. Add a cheese sandwich to it and you can have double the flavor of cheese.

-Written by Lilly Babineau