Southwest Potato Soup

This Southwest Potato Soup is hearty, filling and will keep you warm on these cooler nights! Loaded with potatoes, corn, black beans, green chilies, onions and bacon!

Southwest Potato Soup

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of The Frozen Food Foundation. All opinions are 100% mine.

These cooler nights make me crave comfort food and soup. I’m not sure why, but lots of people have in their mind that comfort food and soup takes all day to prepare and cook. While that may be the case in some instances, I don’t think that sentiment is true all of the time … probably not even most of the time. 

With Fall here and Winter creeping up, it’s getting harder to find the fresh fruits and produce of Summer. Turning to frozen food is a great alternative since freezing is nature’s pause button! Buying frozen food combats the out of season prices and reduces waste from spoilage! Since freezing is nature’s pause button, frozen fruits and vegetables are picked and frozen at their peak ripeness, locking in the nutrient value at the point of freezing!

The University of California, Davis, in partnership with the Frozen Food Foundation, conducted a study that revealed that frozen fruits and vegetables are most often (or generally) nutritionally equal to – and in some cases, better than – their fresh counterparts! Did you know that nearly 80% of Americans fail to consume the recommended amount of fruits, with nearly 90% failing to meet the dietary requirement for vegetables?! Given the increase in the rates of chronic diseases among all age groups, eating a diet rich in a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables is more important than ever. A variety of factors may contribute to low consumption, including cost and convenience. A recent study showed one easy solution – frozen food. 

Frozen food convenience

Frozen foods are convenient, affordable and they help simplify meal time! Not only can I get sweet corn for this fabulous Southwest Potato Soup out of season, but frozen bags of hash browns cut my prep time way down! No potatoes to peel or dice!

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This Southwest Potato Soup is hearty, filling and will keep you warm on these cooler nights!

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Total Time 45 minutes mins

Course Soup

Cuisine American

Servings 12 servings

Calories 225 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• ½ lb. bacon diced
• 1 small onion chopped
• ¼ cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1 teaspoon chili powder
• 2 cloves garlic minced
• 1 package frozen Southern-style hash brown potatoes 32 oz.
• 1 can cream-style corn 14 oz.
• 1 can black beans, rinsed and drained 15 oz.
• 1 bag Bird's Eye frozen sweet corn 16 oz.
• 1 can chopped green chilies, undrained 4 oz.
• 8 cups chicken broth 2 cartons – 32 oz. each
• Sour cream and/or fresh chopped cilantro optional

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Instructions

 

• In a Dutch oven or soup pot, saute the onion and bacon until the onion is tender and the bacon is crisp. Stir in the flour, cumin, chili powder and garlic. Bring the mixture to a boil, cooking and stirring until thickened – about 1 minute.
• Stir in the hash browns, cream-style corn, black beans, green chilies, frozen sweet corn and chicken broth. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer uncovered for 15 minutes or until the soup and vegetables are heated through.
• Garnish with sour cream and cilantro, if desired.

Notes

• Using frozen potatoes is such a time-saver! No peeling or dicing.

Nutrition

Calories: 225kcalCarbohydrates: 30gProtein: 9gFat: 9gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0.02gCholesterol: 16mgSodium: 995mgPotassium: 422mgFiber: 5gSugar: 4gVitamin A: 204IUVitamin C: 11mgCalcium: 33mgIron: 2mg

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