Leftover Baked Mashed Potato Soup#Soupswapers

Soup is an excellent way to use baked leftover mashed potato, for a lunch or dinner.  Have these will bread rolls are you are sated. This  delicious and filling soup, your family will love and enjoy.  For this soup I, used  Sheep Cheese and it tasted wonderful, you can use whatever cheese you have at hand.
Ingredients 
1 Teaspoon Olive Oil
1 Small Onion - finely  chopped
4 Button Mushrooms - 
 chopped
1  Carrot - cut into small sticks
5 French Beans - cut into  small sticks
1 Celery - chopped finely Tablespoons Mix Vegetables
4 Cups Green Goddess Chicken Stock
1⁄4 Teaspoon Sea salt or to taste
1⁄2 Teaspoon Black pepper powder
1⁄4  Teaspoon Smoked Paprika
1 Cup Leftover Baked Mashed Potato
1⁄4  Cup Grated Sheep Cheese or Cheddar Cheese
1  Scallion -  finely chopped
2 Slices Bacon - fried and crumbled
1 Slice Ham - fried and cut into pieces 
Method 
Fry  bacon, and ham in olive oil set aside,  crumble the bacon and cut the ham into small pieces.
In the same pan,  saute the  onion until softened.
Add chopped mushrooms and  vegetables, cook until tender and onion softens. Add green goddess chicken stock , salt, pepper, paprika, stirring to mix and bring this to a boil. Let it simmer on low flame. 
In the meantime.
Take a cup of the this soup broth into a another pan add the mashed potatoes and with stick blender, Blend in mashed potatoes,  until lumps are gone and form a smooth batter.
Add  this batter to the  soup  and stir continuously till it is well mixed . Bring it to a boil, add sheep cheese, stirring until it is melted and smooth. 

Add in scallions, crumbled bacon, ham (reserve a teaspoon of each scallions, bacon and ham for garnishing) take off flame.  Serve this hot garnished with scallions, bacon and ham and grated cheese and dash of smoked paprika.  

Yum yum...
Today is our posting day for soup swappers our host of the month is Karen H Kerr and the theme is Soup from Leftovers.  Thank you Karen for hosting this event.

Labels :  Soup, Leftover series, Baked, Mashed Potatoes, Soupswappers, Bacon, Ham, Green Goddess, Stock, Sheep Cheese

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4 comments:

  1. What a nice twist of flavors for chicken stock! I can see how this blend of flavors would be a lovely combination with the mashed potatoes in the soup!

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  2. A stick to your ribs soup to warm us on cold winter's day.

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  3. This sounds delicious! I love all of the flavors!

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  4. I like the combination of flavors here and it's perfect to use up that pesky last cup of mashed potatoes I always seem to end up with.

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