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Instant Pot Creamy Ham Bone Soup with Potatoes and Cheese

April 19, 2024 by Dawn Filed Under: Best Of, Cooking 24 Comments

This instant pot creamy ham bone soup is so easy to make and delicious. It's hearty and can be customized to your family. 

How many of us have ham for Easter dinner? Our family does and we love ham. If you’re cooking up a ham for Easter this year, make sure to save the ham bone. This instant pot creamy ham bone soup is so easy to make and delicious. It’s hearty and can be customized to your family.

I picked up a spiral cut bone in ham when it was on sale this past week and decided to just cook it up for dinner in the middle of the week. I mean, why not?! Ham is easy to cook and delicious. I made sure to save the ham bone thinking that I’d give it to my mom for her to make pea soup. Then the spring weather turned a bit chilly around here and I decided to make up some ham bone soup myself.

I cut off all of the extra ham from the ham bone and used that in the soup as well since we didn’t have a lot of left over ham. This recipe includes diced potatoes, carrots, and shredded cheese for garnish. You could also add bacon, sour cream, onions, celery, etc. Customize for your family and make it a good hearty meal.

This instant pot creamy ham bone soup is so easy to make and delicious. It's hearty and can be customized to your family. 

I used my instant pot to make it super quick and easy. I love anything I can just dump in my instant pot! If you’re adding onions and celery, turn your IP to saute and add a little olive oil to the bottom. Then saute your onions and celery. Cook until the vegetables start to soften. Add garlic and saute for a minute more, stirring constantly. I didn’t add onions or celery so I skipped the saute step.

Otherwise, follow the recipe directions and you are all set! In about 30+ minutes (once your IP reaches pressure) you’ll have a delicious instant pot creamy ham bone soup. Enjoy!

This instant pot creamy ham bone soup is so easy to make and delicious. It's hearty and can be customized to your family. 

5 from 5 votes
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Instant Pot Creamy Ham Bone Soup

Ingredients

  • 2 cloves garlic minced
  • 2 medium carrots peeled and sliced
  • 1 carton chicken broth
  • 2 medium yukon gold potatoes peeled and diced small
  • 1 ham bone
  • 1-2 cups chopped ham
  • 1/4 cup flour
  • 1 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
  • 1 cup cheddar cheese

Instructions

  1. Add garlic, carrots, chicken broth, potatoes, ham bone, and ham to Instant Pot.
  2. Place lid on pot and lock. Turn the steam release to sealing position.
  3. Select manual, high pressure, and set to 20 minutes.
  4. When cooking cycle has finished, let natural pressure release for 5-10 minutes, then manually release pressure. Open and remove ham bone.
  5. Whisk the flour and heavy whipping cream together.
  6. Turn Instant Pot to saute and then whisk flour/cream mixture into the soup until thickens.
  7. Cancel saute function.
  8. Stir in cheese or use as a garnish.

This instant pot creamy ham bone soup is so easy to make and delicious. It's hearty and can be customized to your family. 

If you love soup, make sure you check out these 20 Fall Soup Recipes. Good anytime. Not just fall. 😉

About Dawn

Dawn is a stay at home, homeschooling mother of 4. She writes for Blogging Mom of 4, Scoreboard Fundraising, and Geek Chic.

Comments

  1. Andrew says

    April 22, 2019 at 2:46 pm

    I’ve never had ham bone soup! But definitely looks delish!

    Reply
  2. kathy pease says

    July 17, 2019 at 2:55 pm

    I will have to try this out it looks delicious

    Reply
  3. Barb says

    January 3, 2020 at 8:44 pm

    So yummy! Great use for leftover ham!

    Reply
  4. Drew says

    May 19, 2020 at 4:59 pm

    Delicious. Just tried it but was out of potatoes so added cook rice to recipe. It was fantastic. I can’t wait to try with potatoes the proper way.

    Reply
    • Dawn says

      May 19, 2020 at 7:45 pm

      Oooh that’s a great idea to sub rice in for the potatoes! Glad you liked it!

      Reply
  5. Jennifer says

    December 28, 2020 at 6:53 pm

    What size carton of broth?

    Reply
    • Dawn says

      January 28, 2021 at 3:38 pm

      32oz

      Reply
  6. Jenni says

    January 11, 2021 at 6:32 pm

    This was sooooo good! Will be making this again! Thanks!

    Reply
  7. Liz says

    March 6, 2021 at 3:40 pm

    5 stars
    I followed the recipe as is and it was very tasty. Very fast and easy so will make again

    Reply
    • Dawn says

      March 8, 2021 at 3:49 pm

      Oh I’m so glad! Isn’t it so good?!

      Reply
  8. Carrie says

    April 5, 2021 at 9:38 am

    5 stars
    This soup was really good, will be adding to my saved list to make again.

    Reply
    • Dawn says

      April 6, 2021 at 4:09 pm

      Yay! I’m so glad! It is so good!

      Reply
  9. Karen Tondreau says

    April 29, 2021 at 8:03 pm

    5 stars
    This was soooo good! I did sauté onions carrots and celery as well as adding the potatoes as you suggested. We had a beautiful hambone with leftover spiral ham cooked on our Kamado so it had that beautiful smokiness to the ham. This on my favourite list for sure!

    Reply
    • Dawn says

      May 4, 2021 at 12:34 pm

      I’m so glad to hear! We love this recipe too. It’s so good!

      Reply
  10. Darla says

    January 22, 2022 at 4:32 pm

    I don’t love my Insta Pot, do you have a recipe for my slow cooker?

    Reply
    • Dawn says

      January 25, 2022 at 4:00 pm

      I have a lot of great slow cooker recipes. Do a quick search on the main site for “slow cooker” and some will come up. https://bloggingmomof4.com/?s=slow+cooker

      Reply
  11. Erin says

    February 3, 2022 at 7:36 pm

    5 stars
    It turned out amazing! The ham was so tender and juicy! I added extra cheddar cheese because we love cheese! The whole family gobbled it up!

    Reply
    • Dawn says

      February 14, 2022 at 4:37 pm

      I’m so glad!!

      Reply
  12. Gayle says

    December 7, 2022 at 9:30 pm

    Delicious 😋..tried tonight, hubby loved..best ever..

    Reply
  13. Patty says

    January 5, 2023 at 10:35 pm

    Is that just 2 potatoes or 2 lbs? I’m new to using my pot. also, how many servings is this recipe.

    Reply
    • Dawn says

      January 10, 2023 at 4:58 pm

      Two medium potatoes.

      Reply
  14. Carrie says

    January 16, 2023 at 11:25 am

    I love this soup, however it’s hard to get ham bones, do you think using a cut up ham steak would give the same flavor?

    Reply
    • Dawn says

      July 12, 2023 at 11:43 am

      Absolutely! I often just buy diced ham and use in the soup. Still delicious!

      Reply
  15. Tracy Mys says

    April 20, 2025 at 8:40 am

    5 stars
    Fantastic! Best ham bone soup I ever had. Thank you so much for sharing it!

    Reply

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