Kentucky Beer Cheese Soup
It’s Fall Y’all, which also means this is Soup Season in the Bluegrass and beyond. Serve with warm bread, crackers or a sandwich for that warm and cozy comfort food high.
Course Soup
Cuisine American
- 4 Slices Bacon - diced
- 3/4 Cup Onion - chopped
- 1/2 Cup Celery Stalks - thinly sliced
- 1/2 Cup Carrots - grated
- 2 Cups White Potato - grated
- 1 tsp. Salt
- 2 tbsp. Plain Flour
- 4 Cups Whole Milk
- 8 oz. Package of Kentucky Beer Cheese in regular or hot
In a large skillet or very heavy sauce pan, cook bacon until crisp.
Remove bacon and reserve 3 tbsp. bacon drippings.
To bacon drippings add vegetables and 2 tbsp. of water
Cook until vegetables are tender, stirring frequently.
Sprinkle flour over vegetables and stir well.
Remove from heat.
Add salt and 4 Cups milk
Add bacon back and simmer over very low heat for 45 minutes
Remove from heat and stir in Kentucky Beer Cheese
Makes 6-8 servings.