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Title: Tony Roma's Baked Potato Soup
Categories: Copycat, Soups
Yield: 8 Servings

2 md Potatoes (2 c); chopped
3 tb Butter
1 c White onion; diced
2 tb Flour
4 c Chicken stock
2 c Water
1/4 c Corn starch
1 1/2 c Instant mashed potatoes
1 ts Salt
3/4 ts Pepper
1/2 ts Basil
1/8 Tp Thyme
1 c Half & half

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1/2 c Cheddar cheese; shredded
1/4 c Bacon; cooked, crumbled
2 Green onions;
- green part only, chopped

"A house specialty full of baked potatoes and topped with Cheddar
cheese, bacon, and green onions."

The thick-and-creamy texture and rich taste of Tony Roma's
best-selling soup can be easily cloned with basic ingredients. This
TSR version is thickened with a little flour, some half-and-half and,
most notably, instant mashed potatoes. Give yourself an hour to bake
the potatoes and around 30 minutes to prepare the soup. Garnish each
serving with shredded cheese, crumbled bacon and green onions and you
will have a home kitchen Tony Roma's recreation that will surely
impress.

Preheat oven to 400?F and bake the potatoes or 1 hour or until done.
When potatoes have cooked remove them from the oven to cool.

As potatoes cool prepare soup by melting butter in a large saucepan,
and saut onion until light brown. Add the flour to the onions and
stir to make a roux.

Add stock, water, corn starch, mashed potatoes, and spices to the pot
and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes.

Cut potatoes in half lengthwise and scoop out contents with a large
spoon. Discard skin. Chop baked potato with a large knife to make
chunks that are about 1/2" in size.

Add chopped baked potato and half-and-half to the saucepan, bring
soup back to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer the soup for another
15 minutes or until it is thick.

Spoon about 1-1/2 cups of soup into a bowl and top with about 1 tb
shredded cheddar cheese, 1/2 tb crumbled bacon, and 1 ts or so of
chopped green onion. Repeat for remaining servings.

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