✨My mom’s super simple secret potato soup recipe (only a secret from my dad who HATES gravy)✨
•One large sweet onion, diced
•3-4 carrots, thinly sliced
•3 celery ribs, thinly sliced
•3-4 potatoes, diced (or as many as you like, this soup can make a little or a lot. Follow your heart.)
•2 Tbsp butter
•1 Tbsp dried basil
•Knorr powdered broth (vegetable or chicken)
•salt & pepper
•1 package of pepper gravy mix, whisked up with 1.5 cups of water in a separate bowl (my mom’s secret thickener 🙏🤣)
Melt butter over medium heat in a large soup pot or Dutch oven and add the onion, carrots, celery, and potatoes.
Stir and get everything nice and coated in butter and let it cook for about 5 minutes.
Use a measuring cup to add water until the vegetables are covered by a good inch, keep track of about how much water you used so you can add the proportional amount of broth powder once it is boiling (one tsp powder to one cup water).
Turn soup up to medium high heat and when it starts to boil add your broth powder and dried basil. Place the lid on and return to medium/low heat and let it simmer/lightly boil for about 15-20 minutes. Until potatoes are getting soft.
Stir in your pepper gravy mix (I don’t follow package direction, I just slowly whisk in 1-1.5 cups of cold water in a separate bowl then add to soup pot). I like to crack in a ton more pepper too and quite a bit of salt.
Cover again and simmer for another 15 minutes.
Taste for saltiness and adjust seasoning if necessary, enjoy!
✨If it gets too thick (leftovers might be the next day) just add more water.