Home Copycat Restaurant Recipes – Over 869 recipes and counting! Love Panera Bread Baked Potato Soup? Make it at home on the stovetop with this easy copycat recipe. Panera Bread Baked Potato Soup is a wonderful creamy panera broccoli cheddar soup that will warm your soul.
This soup recipe is perfect if you are looking for a bowl of comforting soup, or even if you are looking for a hearty lunch. You will enjoy it either way. This recipe has very common ingredients. Ingredients for Panera Bread Baked Potato soup. If you have never used a chicken base before you will find it a good ingredient for this recipe. Soup bases are sold in most grocery stores near the bullion. Soup bases are pastes that have more flavor and less salt.
They are wonderful to cook with. I also suggest you use a low-sodium stock for this soup. It may get salty by the time we layer the stock, the soup base, and bacon. I also like to use real bacon bits for this recipe. I think they work a little bit better than freshly cooked bacon.
They are leaner and the bacon is added to the soup. This helps the smokey flavor incorporate better in the soup than just sprinkling bacon bits over the top. In a medium-sized pot, add cubed potatoes, chicken stock, and soup base. Cook potatoes in stock over medium heat for about 12 to 15 minutes or until potatoes are tender when pierced with a fork. In a large pot, heat butter over medium heat until it melts. Add onions and garlic then sauté until the onions are translucent. Sprinkle flour over the butter and cook for a minute or two.
Add potato and chicken stock by 1 cup increments and stir until soup mixture is well blended. Add the cream cheese and stir until it has melted. Add salt, black pepper, chives, and bacon bits. While Panera Bread does not do this, you may want to garnish your soup with some grated cheese, fresh chives, and a dollop of sour cream. Two bowls of homemade Panera Bread Baked Potato Soup.