Slow Cooker/Ninja 3-in-1 Ham and Potato Soup

I recently got a Ninja 3-in-1 cooker to replace my trusty slow cooker. I wanted to try out a few recipes to see how it compared and this was one of the first. I made this pretty unchanged (shocker!) from the original post on Dinner then Dessert and it was really delicious! I just switched out some of the quantities in this version below to fit more of my shopping/cooking style.

Ingredients

• 3 lbs/10 russet potatoes , diced
• 1 yellow or white onion , diced
• 2 large carrots or 10-15 baby carrots, peeled and chopped
• 1/2 cup chopped celery
• 16 ounce Cubed Ham (I got a bone-in ham from Target and made this and one other recipe for a ham casserole… the ham was delicious and awesome)
• 1 teaspoon Kosher salt
• 1/4 teaspoon fresh cracked black pepper
• 1/4 cup flour
• 4 cups water + 4 tablespoon Chicken flavor Better than Bouillon soup base (you can sub 4 c chicken broth/stock for all of this if you want)
• 1 1/2 cups whole milk
• ½ cup sour cream

Instructions

1. 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.
2. Using a potato masher, mash about 1/3 of the potatoes (don’t worry the ham won’t really mash that much)
3. Add the flour, heavy cream/milk and sour cream and stir everything together.
4. Cover and cook on high for an additional 15 minutes.