This quick loaded potato chowder has everything you love about a baked potato (bacon, cheese and sour cream) built into a yummy chowder!I don’t know why I seem to forget about this recipe in the winter months when a lovely warm potato chowder would be fantastic for warming me up on a cold day, but I always do and then we have to wait for a cooler day to have it in the summer months. Maybe it’s because I’m always looking for ways to use my chives and green onions when they are in season, who knows.

Anyway, if you are looking for a quick and tasty recipe for those cooler summer days you should check out this chowder. It’s super easy (but not super friendly on the waistline…) 

Quick Loaded Potato Chowder

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Ingredients

• 2 cups chopped potatoes
• 1/2 package of cream cheese
• 2 cups of milk
• 1 tsp parsley
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1/4 cup of chopped, cooked bacon
• toppings of your choice (we used chives and cheddar cheese and garlic bread for dipping)

Instructions

Cook chopped potatoes until mostly cooked through (I cook them in the microwave for 5 minutes)

Add to a saucepan on medium-high heat with 1/2 container of the cream cheese and milk.

Heat until cream cheese has melted through them turn back to medium-low

Add bacon, parsley, and if you choose garlic powder, salt and pepper (we leave those last three out)

Let simmer for about 5 minutes

Serve it up with the toppings of your choice!

You could also add onions if that is something your family likes but as my husband can’t eat onion we stick to just using garlic powder. The only complaint I get with this recipe is that I never seem to make enough of it. I find this recipe is enough for two people (especially if you are supplementing it with a dipping vessel of some sort 😉 ).[Tweet “This Quick Loaded Potato Chowder #recipe is perfect for those cold winter nights!”]

From start to finish you’re looking at about a 20-minute meal, and it’s pretty darn tasty if I do say so myself!