Instant Pot Creamy Potato Soup

This Instant Pot Creamy Potato Soup is so easy to make and it’s just one of those hearty and comforting dinners. It’s like a loaded baked potato in soup form – especially once you load on all those toppings. It’s so nice to sit down to a big bowl of this homestyle soup after a long day!

Instant Pot Potato Soup

You can’t have too many Instant Pot recipes right? Especially Instant Pot soup recipes. And I instantly fell in love with those one after one spoonful!

It’s creamy, it’s rich, it’s cheesy and how could it not be good? It has bacon! This is one of those recipes I’ll use time and time again because my family loves it and I love how simple it is to throw together.

How to Make Instant Pot Potato Soup

• To start you’ll melt a few tablespoons butter in the Instant Pot on the saute setting.
• Then add in onions and celery and saute briefly, following that add in some chicken broth, potatoes, carrots and season with salt and pepper and cancel that saute setting.
• Cover and seal then let cook on manual/high pressure for 9 minutes. Then once time is up you’ll let pressure come down for 5 minutes and do a quick release – because we’re hungry right?
• Then set back pressure cooker to the saute setting once more and next stir in a milk and cornstarch mixture along with some cream cheese (yum!). This will thicken it up and add more flavor.
• It will simmer for a minute then, and now bring on those delicious toppings! Note that it will thicken even more as it cools, soup will be very hot at this point so I like to let it rest for a little while.

A Recipe with Pantry Staples

I love that this soup uses ingredients that I always have on hand (isn’t storing bacon in the freezer a must??). And cheese, don’t we all have a whole drawer in the fridge dedicated to cheese, or maybe that’s just me :).

Spring may be here but it still feels like winter to me so I’m going to have this soup on repeat. I hope you love it!