Slow Cooker Ham and Potato Soup is creamy, full of veggies and ham, finished off with milk and sour cream for an easy, delicious hearty soup.
Slow Cooker Recipes make busy fall and winter schedules so much easier. Coming home on a cold day to a big batch of Slow Cooker Vegetable Beef Soup or Slow Cooker Taco Soup will warm you up in an instant.
SLOW COOKER HAM AND POTATO SOUP
Slow Cooker Ham and Potato Soup is a delicious set it and forget it meal your family will enjoy that tastes like you stood by the stovetop tending to it for hours.
Soups are a big part of the fall season, with their instant “warm you up” abilities and ability to freeze portions or take portions for quickly heated lunches. Slow cookers are such a great tool for making easy soups in the winter, especially this Slow Cooker Ham and Potato Soup.
Serve Slow Cooker Ham and Potato soup as a main dish with Easy Dinner Rolls or Black Pepper Bacon Biscuits that incidentally would go fabulously with this soup!
With less than 20 minutes of prep work your slow cooker is set and ready to go.
The Slow Cooker Ham and Potato Soup simmers away on its own, melting the vegetables into this delicious creamy base. A quick mash, a bit of heavy cream and sour cream and dinner is served!
The best part of slow cooker meals like this Slow Cooker Ham and Potato Soup is that they’re perfect for weeknights now that everyone is back to school or for those hearty meals you’re going to need after a day spent out at the soccer fields watching the little ones run around in a pattern that almost resembles soccer.
This Slow Cooker Ham and Potato Soup can be ready, waiting for you to come home, peel off the grass covered uniforms and eat!
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Tools Used in the making of this Slow Cooker Ham and Potato Soup:
Slow Cooker: This recipe was made in this slow cooker. For larger roasts you can also brown the meat in the insert and not lose a bunch of the flavor by transferring the meat and leaving the browned bits behind. If you’re thinking of a new slow cooker, consider it if your budget is open.
Better Than Bouillon: You’ll never need to buy boxes of broth if you keep on hand the beef, chicken and vegetable version of this Better Than Bouillon.
Spice Rack – If you buy spices in bulk from local grocers or from Penzey’s, it’s less expensive and significantly higher quality than buying the jars individually. This spice rack helps to keep from ending up being left with tons of little bags of spices.
HOW TO STORE SLOW COOKER HAM AND POTATO SOUP
- Serve: Don’t leave your Slow Cooker Ham and Potato Soup out for longer than about 2 hours before putting it away. If you leave it out too long the soup will start to grow bacteria that can make you sick.
- Store: Always allow the soup to cool to room temperature before you put it in the fridge. In a sealable container, the Slow Cooker Ham and Potato Soup can last about 3 days. After that, it’s time to throw it out and make more.
- Freeze: Unfortunately, it is not recommended to freeze creamy soups such as this, because the sour cream and milk will separate and create a grainy texture when defrosted.
Ingredients
- 8 cups russet potatoes , diced
- 1 yellow onion , diced
- 2 large carrots , peeled and chopped
- 1/2 cup chopped celery
- 16 ounces Cubed Ham
- 1 teaspoon Kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper
- 1/4 cup flour
- 4 cups chicken broth
- 1 1/2 cups heavy cream , (you can also substitute whole milk)
- ½ cup sour cream
Instructions
- Add the potatoes, onion, carrot, celery, ham, Kosher salt, pepper chicken broth to your slow cooker and cook on low 7-8 hours, or high 4-5 hours.
- Using a potato masher, mash about ⅓ of the potatoes (don't worry the ham won't really mash that much)
- Add the flour, heavy cream/milk and sour cream and stir everything together.
- Cover and cook on high for an additional 15 minutes.
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This was delicious. The only adjustment I made was in the end. I melted butter in a saucepan on the stove. Mixed in the flour until it resembled a paste. Added the heavy cream, mixing until it thickened. Then added it to the soup. This is a keeper. Will definitely make again.
Thanks Amy! So glad you enjoyed it!
Not sure why some have said it was runny and thin. Mine was thick and delicious. I used an immersion blender and pulsed a few times instead of a potato masher. My whole family of picky eaters loved it!
Thank you for the 5 star rating Laura! An immersion blender works so well for this too, great suggestion!
Love this recipe! I use my leftover ham bones in mine. I wanted to let you know that I use Almondbreeze original unsweetened almond milk instead of whole milk. To do so you need extra thickener in the broth. I use double the flour and an extra cup of potatoes to mash. Turns out great! You can’t freeze it though if you’re using almond milk. Just make enough to eat fresh through the week.
Thank you for the substitution tips Becca!
Can I make this soup in a pressure cooker instead of a crockpot?
I’m sure it can be but because I’ve never tested it I don’t have a recommendation of timing and such. You could probably find a recipe with similar ingredients online and follow those pressure cooker instructions for this recipe too. Enjoy!
So good!! After reading some reviews I decided to take a little of the broth out before adding the sour cream and heavy cream and also added a can of corn. It was the perfect consistency. I probably removed 1 cup of broth.
Have you tried this with a different kind of potatoes? I have a bag of golden yellow potatoes and wondering if it’s worth trying instead of russets!
I haven’t tried a different type yet but yellow potatoes are very similar to russet so I’d say go for it! They’re a little bit sweeter so that might adjust the flavor a bit but not much. I’d love to hear what you think when you give it a try.
I chickened out and bought russets! Giving this a try tomorrow night I can’t wait!
Haha, you’re so funny! Enjoy!!
I just made this for the first time, SO good! I topped the bowls off with a little sprinkle of sharp cheddar cheese and some chopped green onions! It was a hit!
Thank you so much for taking the time to come back and let me know how much you enjoyed it! It’s such a great meal.
Amazing soup!! I followed the recipe but added a little more flour. So delicious, Thank You!
Awesome! So glad you loved it and came back to let me know!
We have had a very drizzly cold spring here in NH, so I made this soup today. It was DELICIOUS!! A big hit with everyone! I like spice, so I added some cayenne to my personal bowl. I would recommend this recipe to everyone I know!!! It is going to be a go to soup now!!!
Thanks Crystal! Hopefully summer will be there shortly but glad you have the soup to get you through until it does 🙂
Sabrina, I hope you get this message I saw this recipe and I’m making it right now I love the fact that there’s no cheese in it, is there such a thing as too much potato I have it all in there but the broth is not covering everything should I add more more broth??? I really want it to turn out awesome…..
So sorry I’m just now seeing your question. The potato will breakdown over the cooking time and all of it will come together nicely. Hope you were able to enjoy it! It’s one of our favorites 🙂
Made this twice. The first time I did it in the crockpot all day on low and it was really good. The second time I did it in the crockpot on high for 4 1/2 hours and it was fantastic. This is a good thing as this batch was being donated to the local women’s shelter.
What a wonderful thing to do for the shelter! So glad to hear they both turned out well 🙂
Absolutely delicious and very easy to make
So glad you enjoyed it!
Making this recipe right now! Super excited as I’ve had it pinned for a while now. I can’t wait to see the finished product. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
You’re welcome! I’d love to know what you thought of it.
Delicious and super easy! I added some bacon bits and cheddar cheese. My family loved it! Thank you for sharing!!
Oooh, bacon bits and cheddar cheese sound like an amazing topping with this! Great idea!
Very tasty soup. Perfect for that leftover Easter ham. In fact, once you’ve made this, you’ll always make too much ham just so you have the extras for this!
Sounds like a smart idea 😉 Glad you enjoyed it.
Why mash the potatoes ?
It helps to add some body/thickness to the soup.
This is absolutely delicious….making it for the second time tonight using leftover ham. Have already given out the recipe a few times and everyone just loves it! My new go to recipe for leftover ham! Thank you so much for an amazing (and easy) recipe!!!
Aw, this just made my day! Thank you so much for taking the time to come back and let me know how much you enjoyed it! It’s such an easy dish and so comforting!
I have now made this soup several times…every time I make it, everyone goes wild over it. I am cooking a ham dinner tonight so cannot wait to make it with the leftovers…thanks again for Such an amazing recipe.
I’m so glad everyone enjoys it! You just made my day!
I LOVE this recipe. I’m making it for the second time today and I can’t find the instructions. They seem to have disappeared from your site. The ingredients etc are there, but no instructions.
Can you help?
Thanks
I’m so sorry!! My recipe plug in has been super glitchy! I fixed it 🙂
Looks and sounds delicious…..could I use golden potatoes instead of russet?
Of course! Enjoy!!
I made this for a work function and was very pleased with how it came out. Prep of the potatoes, onion, and celery went really quickly with a kitchen mandolin. I actually don’t have a potato masher (haha), so I used my stick blender; used sparingly, it gave me the consistency I was looking for. I didn’t have any dairy milk on hand, so I used a combination of butter and (unflavored/unsweetened) Almond milk. A bit concerned about flour lumps, I used my stick blender to blend it into the almond milk beforehand. Really great recipe. Thanks!
Awesome! So glad you loved it and came back to let me know!
Delicious! Turned out perfect, just following the recipe exactly! Top with bacon, grn. onion, sour cream, and cheese:-)
So happy you dropped back by to let me know how much you loved it!
I made this without the ham and it was just as good.
Fantastic! So glad you enjoyed it!
Planning to try this this week. Do you peel the potatoes before diving or leave the skins on?
Personally, I like to peel them but you could leave them on if you want. It would just give the soup a bit a texture, if you don’t mind that.
I made it tonight as my first new recipe as I try to get used to finally using a crockpot. This such a busy time of year for me, and I needed something ready to eat when we got home late. So yummy! I used leftover ham from Christmas that I defrosted first before adding. I can definetly see adding corn for another twist. Even my kids love it!
Crockpot meals are the best especially during busy times! I’m so happy to see that everyone loved it because I know how hard it can be to please everyone, especially kids.
Instead of using flour I added one cup of instant potatoes to thicken at the end and let cook a few minutes longer. Turned out great….
Fantastic! Thank you for taking the time to come back to let me know you enjoyed it!
We tried this recipe to and absolutely love it. I put in more carrots and less potatoes though and I also pre-cooked the minced onion and celery in the microwave with a tablespoon of oil a teaspoon of dried thyme and 3 cloves of minced garlic.
I do love that this dish is customizable depending on what your family enjoys! Love your suggestions! Thank you for taking the time to come back and let me know how much your family loved it!
I’m due with our second child in 8 weeks and was wondering if you have ever prepped the veggies before hand and add it with the meat to a freezer bag to do like a dump freezer meal? Where all you have to do if thaw over night, add it to crock pot with broth and cook?
First off, congratulations! I completely understand wanting to have some meals prepped and ready to go. So yes, you can prep the freezer bag with the vegetables and meat. Just thaw it in the fridge overnight before placing it in the slow cooker. Another option would be to make the soup completely and then freeze to use later. I like doing that for lunch size portions.
Made this & it is awesome. Tip, if you have a smaller crockpot, I removed the potatoes & mashed in a separate bowl. I also mixed the cream, flour and sour cream separately & then added. Gives an opportunity to taste & adjust s&p
That’s a great tip! Thanks for dropping by to let me know that you thought it was awesome!!
Made this last night, it was amazing! We added one turnip and cooked bacon too. The family loved it!
Fantastic! Thank you for coming back to let me know how much you guys loved it!
And I should add that I cubed up left over ham from the weekend ? Great recipe for left overs.
I made this today….Omg… WONDERFUL!
Actually put in an extra 12oz can of broth as I had diced too many potatoes. Let it go all day on low. Only had 1 cup of heavy whipping cream and filled in with milk and then added a cup or more of sour cream. I was having friends over for dinner and one of them has celiacs disease….So I used about a half cup of gluten free flour. Also added bacon. Yum yum yum!!!!
I’m so glad you loved it and came back to let me know!
This recipe was delicious!!! Thanku!!
You’re welcome! So happy you enjoyed it! Thank you for coming back to let me know!
I used smoked sausage instead of ham and added 1/2 cup shredded cheese…Amazing!! Thanks for the recipe!!
I bet the smoked sausage was an amazing substitution! Thanks for coming back to let me know how much you loved it!
Has anyone success using cauliflower instead potatoes and arrow root powder instead flour? We are low carb paleo and wondered ….
A couple of other commenters asked about using cauliflower as well. I don’t think it would be as smooth or creamy since you’re going to be mashing half at the end but I doubt the flavor would be significantly worse for it assuming you like the taste of cauliflower. If you’re going to be using arrowroot powder as a thickening agent, you’ll just want to cut back the amount so start with less and then add until you’re happy with the consistency. Hope you enjoy the meal!
This has excellent flavor and mine thickened in spite of making a big mistake using baking powder rather than corn starch, ugh. My guess thickeners came from mashing most of potatoes, and adding drained frozen corn.
Will make again, for some reason I can’t print recipe…would you mind sending me PDF please?
Glad you enjoyed the recipe in spite of the accidental switch. Also I emailed you the pdf! Sorry for the delay this comment got snared in my spam filter and I just saw it.
I made this tonight. I can see why some would say it was runny, but i removed a little broth before i added the cream and milk (i used 1/4c heavy cream and 1c whole milk). The consistency was perfect. I started the soup after i made breakfast, so i added a few tablespoons of bacon grease, and topped the soup with crispy bacon bits. Also, i omitted the sour cream because I forgot…oopsy, still turned out delish!
So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for coming back to let me know!
I absolutely love this! One of my favorites. (Won’t let me rate :/ ) Definitely 5 stars!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it and came back to let me know!
Do you think I could sub cauliflower for the potatoes to make it a bit more low-carb? Or do you think that would negatively affect the texture?
It certainly will not be as smooth or creamy since you’re going to be mashing half the potatoes at the end, but I doubt the flavor would be significantly worse for it assuming you like the taste of cauliflower. Hope you enjoy the meal!
I pinned this recipe recently and made it for dinner tonight. I actually felt a bit guilty letting my slow cooker do almost all of the work. LOL
I was a little leery that adding only salt and pepper was going to create a flavorful soup, but this soup is incredible! It is so delicious that everyone went back for a second bowl! I read the comments before making the recipe, so to avoid a “watery” or “runny” soup that some had, I cut back the liquid by 1/2 cup and let it simmer longer than 15 minutes after adding the flour (closer to 45 minutes). It turned out VERY creamy. I will be sharing this recipe with friends and, definitely, will make it again for my family.
Hopefully you got over that guilt quickly 😉 I’m so glad you guys enjoyed it! Thanks for coming back to let me know!
Oh my goodness. This is so yummy. I have not yet served the family yet, but it’s done and I gave it the taste test. I followed your recipe to the letter and it is perfect in taste and creamy consistency. I know the family will love it too. I will add the recipe to my favorites. Thank you so much for sharing it.
You totally made my day! I’m so glad you made it and then came back to tell me about it! It’s one of our favorites as well!
I made this soup.It is on my favorites list now.It was great.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for coming back to let me know!
This soup was delicious! I used leftover ham instead of the Smithfields and added about 4 cups total. I also added sharp cheddar cheese with the dairy and definitely used heavy cream. My family thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for dropping by to let me know! I’m so glad you guys enjoyed it!
Th was the first time I made this. WOW!!! This is amazing! The kids loved it asked me when I can mad it again. LOL.
I’m so glad you guys enjoyed it! Thanks for coming back to let me know!
Greetings! I made this recipe today to use up my leftover Christmas ham and to freeze for later, and it turned out amazing. Super easy to put together and the crockpot did most of the work! Will definitely make this again. Thank you for sharing. Happy New Year 🙂
Thank you so much for coming back and letting me know how much you loved it!
Happy New Year!
Made this tonight using the leftover Christmas ham and it did not disappoint. It was amazing. I did make it on the stove top vs the slow cooker (since my slow cooker has been failing me lately). So delicious and will make again! Thanks for the recipe!
I’m so glad you guys enjoyed it! Thanks for coming back to let me know!
Anyone have a one pot version of this recipe?
Yes, just cook low and slow until thickened and all the vegetables are cooked through 30-40 minutes. If a really full pot, maybe 45-50 minutes. Add the dairy in the last 5 minutes. Enjoy!
Just made this in my electric pressure cooker in under an hour and it was just as delicious and the first time when i made it in a crockpot.
Thanks for coming back to let me know it worked out well! It’s nice to have options especially in a time crunch!
I made this tonight. Turned out great! Added a little cheddar on top for the kids. Thank you!
Thanks for dropping by to let me know! I’m so glad you guys enjoyed it!
? OMG!!! My daughters and I made this and it was delicious. This will become a part of the rotation. The only thing is I couldn’t find this Smithfield ham at my grocers. So I used a Smithfield like a mini-ham. I chopped it up. It didn’t have much fat so I worried about flavor. So I grabbed some ham bouliuon. Yes they have it. I don’t think I needed it. But it made the flavor. Out this ?. I also added a can of corn. Cause I like corn. Thank you so much for this receipe! My girls and I just kept saying. Omg this is so good. Thanks Jennifer from Baltimore.
You totally made my day! I’m so glad you made it and then came back to tell me about it!
When it starts to get cold, I want nothing more than a bowl of soup to warm my soul. This year i had some leftover ham and was searching for a recipe to utilize it. After seeing this easy recipe and then making and tasting it, I am making my own from here on out…. absolutely love this recipe! Its great reheated too!
Wonderful! So glad you enjoyed it and thank you for coming back and letting me know how it turned out!