O'Charley's Loaded Potato Soup - CopyKat Recipes (2024)

FAQs

Has O Charley's potato soup changed? ›

Over the years I've gone back to O'Charley's and was a little disappointed to find that the soup had changed. It didn't seem to have as much flavor, used different potatoes and the chives had disappeared completely.

This creamy soup is a comfort dish ideal for chilly days. It contains all the flavors of a baked potato but can be made in a fraction of the time. Onions, celery, and bacon add powerful flavors to the tender potatoes, while cream, cheddar cheese, and parsley bring the finishing touches.

A slurry can thicken a soup toward the end of the cooking process. Combine cornstarch and a little bit of water—or the chicken stock from the soup—in a small bowl. With the soup simmering over medium-low heat, whisk in the slurry. The soup should start to thicken almost immediately.

Perhaps the simplest approach is to flavor your soup with salt throughout the cooking process. Instead of waiting until the end of cooking to realize your soup lacks taste, you can add a bit of salt during each phase of cooking. Doing so will help bring out the flavors of each of the ingredients.

Try a squeeze of lemon or lime or a splash of vinegar to brighten a dull-tasting canned soup.

Soup can become acidic due to a variety of factors such as using acidic ingredients like tomatoes, vinegar, or lemon juice, overcooking certain vegetables, or adding too much of ingredients like wine or citrus. It can also be caused by fermentation or spoilage of soup over time.

Cornstarch. Cornstarch is a very effective thickener, and a little bit can go a long way. Add cornstarch to a small amount of cold water or other liquid (wine or stock) and whisk into a thick slurry. Then the slurry can be stirred into a simmering soup, a bit at a time to set the final consistency.

Worcestershire Sauce

Similar to the fish sauce, Worcestershire Sauce adds umami to soups and stocks. It's because of the anchovies in there. It doesn't taste like anchovies, just like good rich meatiness. Give it a whirl in Vegetable Soup or a Beef Stew.

Potato soup can provide a number of benefits, including being a good source of fiber, vitamin C, and potassium. It can also be a comforting and satisfying meal, especially during cold weather. However, the nutritional value of potato soup can depend on the specific recipe and ingredients used.

Cream cheese can be a delicious and tangy thickener for mashed potatoes so it stands to reason that it can also be used to add body to your favorite silky potato soup recipes — right? The answer is yes. It only works well if you do it carefully, though.

Can you use instant mashed potatoes to thicken potato soup? ›

Yes. Incredibly effective? You bet. This trick works because the instant mashed potatoes are naturally starchy and therefore are similar in form to other commonly used thickeners, such as cornstarch, only without the clumps.

Herbs and spices add aroma, flavor, and intensity to soup broth. "Use fresh or dried basil in tomato-based recipes or fresh parsley to add freshness to clear broth soups," says Sofia Norton, RD. You can also go with more heat and spices.

Potato chowder is a thick, creamy, chunky, and almost stew-like dish. It differs from potato soup in that it relies just as much on milk, half and half, or heavy cream as it does on broth, whereas soup recipes tend to be all broth or stock. Chowder in general is closer to a stew than it is a soup.

As exciting as this reunion has been it pains me to find that Panera Bread has removed Baked Potato soup from their menu since the return of French Onion soup.

A report from BBC Science Focus says that when your bolognese, stew or curry is sitting on the shelf in your fridge, it's getting more flavoursome by the minute even though it's no longer on the stove, because the ingredients are still marinating and breaking down like they would in a super slow cook.

If left overnight (and saved in a safe, refrigerated place) leftover soup tastes richer the next day because all the flavors have had longer to blend. The same applies to stews.