Hard Rock Cafe Potato Soup

The Hard Rock Cafe Potato Soup is an irresistible creamy potato soup. The Hard Rock Cafe is typically located in resort areas, so if you want a bowl of this soup, chances are you will need to make it from scratch.

You can make a creamy bowl of the Hard Rock Cafe Potato soup any day of the week with this easy copycat recipe.

Everybody loves a good potato soup. Hard Rock Cafe’s Potato soup is famously good.

The first Hard Rock Café opened in 1971 in the posh, Mayfair section of London. But it wasn’t until years later that they became known for their rock-and-roll memorabilia. As legend has it, Eric Clapton asked to hang one of his old guitars over his regular table at the restaurant to make it his special spot whenever he visited. When Pete Townshend saw it, he gave one of his old guitars to the restaurant with the note “Mine’s as good as his! Love, Pete.” Today, The Hard Rock Cafe’s collection includes over 80,000 items and is the largest, privately owned library of Rock and Roll memorabilia in the world.

The Hard Rock Café introduced Potato Soup to their menu sometime after expanding the restaurant chain into the USA. Although the menu changes from location to location, Hard Rock Café’s Potato Soup is often “in rotation” in many of its big-city restaurants during the colder months. One ingredient you may not expect in Hard Rock Café’s Potato Soup is the Tobasco sauce.

Tabasco sauce was created in Maryland, in 1868 and is still made the same way today. Tobasco peppers are mashed into a paste and set aside to age for up to three years. Then it is strained and mixed with vinegar and aged for another month before it is ready for distribution. There is even a reserve edition, which has been aged for 8 years. The company is one of only a handful of US companies to receive a Warrant Royal from Queen Elizabeth II. They are official “Supplier of Tabasco Sauce to HM The Queen.”

When making this soup, follow these tips to ensure yours is as good as Hard Rock’s.
Bake the potatoes the night before to cut down on preparation time. You can also use equal amounts of leftover mashed potatoes.

If you worry about the cheese clumping, toss your grated cheese with 1 tablespoon of flour or cornstarch before adding it to your pot. This will keep it from sticking together.
Ingredients for the Hard Rock Cafe Baked Potato Soup copycat recipe.

You can also try removing your soup from the stovetop before adding the grated cheese and green onions. The soup should be hot when you add the cheese, but not boiling as the high temperature will encourage the cheese to clump.

You can make a delicious bowl of Hard Rock Cafe Baked Potato Soup recipe.

Make Hard Rock Cafe Potato Soup at home

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You can make a creamy bowl of the Hard Rock Cafe Potato soup any day of the week with this easy copycat recipe.

Hard Rock Cafe Potato Soup

You can make Hard Rock Cafe Potato Soup just like they make. 
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Course: Soup
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Hard Rock Cafe Potato Soup
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 8
Calories: 476kcal

Ingredients

  • 8 Slices Bacon fried crisp
  • 1 cup diced yellow onion
  • 2/3 cup Flour
  • 6 cup chicken broth
  • 4 cup diced peeled baked potato
  • 2 cup heavy cream
  • 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
  • 1 1/2 tablespoon granulated garlic
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon Tobasco
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
  • 1/4 cup Diced green onion

Instructions

  • Chop bacon. Set aside. Cook onions in drippings over medium high heat until transparent. Add flour stirring to prevent lumps. Cook for 3-5 minutes until mixture just begins to turn golden. Add broth (it helps if it is warm) gradually, stirring constantly with whisk until thickened. Reduce heat to simmer and add potatoes, cream, bacon, parsley, garlic, basil, Tabasco, and black pepper. Simmer 10 minutes. DO NOT BOIL. Add cheese and green onion. Stir until cheese melts. This can be made ahead up to the point of adding the cheese and onion. Reheat the soup very slowly and gently. Be careful that it does not boil. Then add the cheese and green onion. Of course if there is any leftover it reheats beautifully. I have never tried freezing it.

Nutrition

Calories: 476kcal | Carbohydrates: 27g | Protein: 12g | Fat: 36g | Saturated Fat: 19g | Cholesterol: 110mg | Sodium: 935mg | Potassium: 758mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 1215IU | Vitamin C: 29.3mg | Calcium: 199mg | Iron: 4.9mg

About Stephanie Manley

I recreate your favorite restaurant recipes, so you can prepare these dishes at home. I help you cook dinner, and serve up dishes you know your family will love. You can find most of the ingredients for all of the recipes in your local grocery store.

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  1. Lisa Kisinger

    5 stars
    I’ve made this in a roaster pan for many, many events for a crowd for several years, multiplying the recipe x 4.. The first time I made it, it was such a hit, I was asked to make it again… And again, and again, and AGAIN! Peeling and dicing the baked potatoes is the most time consuming part, but WELL worth it! You won’t be disappointed. Unless you’re asked to make it again, and again, and AGAIN! HA! I have also adjusted the recipe to suit me, such as using chopped garlic in a jar, and a tad more got sauce (and I use Frank’s instead of Tabasco). A roaster pan will feed 40 to 50 people at about $1 per person if you buy bacon ends and pieces instead of sliced bacon.

  2. Kim

    Have made this many times too! Delicious! I don’t cook my potatoes ahead just wash and cube up and cook in broth a few minutes….added a little extra broth for cooking potatoes. I also whisk flour in cream before adding to rest of mixture. It always went lumpy adding to the small amount of liquid for sauting onions.

  3. Kirsten

    We love this soup! I’ve made it many many times. I like to use fresh garlic and cook it with the onions. I also purée this soup in the blender after adding the broth. I also use dried spices and it’s great!!!

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