Whenever you are craving a warm bowl of soup, this sweet potato soup comes in handy. It’s decadent and quick to make. Besides, sweet potatoes are considered a great complex carb rich in fibre and loaded with vitamins and minerals including iron, calcium, selenium, as well as a good source of vitamin B and vitamin C.
You need a few ingredients to enjoy this soup at any time of day and the most interesting bit is that you can used the spices that you fancy the most.
As you try this soup, consider checking out my beetroot soup as well.
How to make the Sweet Potato Soup
Start by preparing all the ingredients: peel & dice the sweet potatoes, peel & dice the carrots, dice the onions & mince the ginger, garlic & turmeric.
Heat the cooking oil in a large cooking pot. Add the diced onion and carrots and allow to cook till the carrots soften.
Add the garlic, ginger and turmeric and cook till fragrant. Then add the paprika, cinnamon and onion powder and stir till well combined.
Add the diced sweet potatoes and vegetable broth and bring to a boil on medium high heat then reduce the heat to low and allow to simmer while covered for about 20-25 minutes or until the sweet potatoes are fork tender. Remember to season with sea salt & black pepper.
Transfer the soup ingredients to a blender and blend on high for about a minute or two or until creamy. You can add more broth or water for a thinner consistency. (See Blending tips below).
Once blended, add back to the cooking pot and reheat before serving. Serve while hot. You can garnish with some coconut cream and pickled onions or any other garnish of your choice and enjoy.
Blending Tips:
- Incase you have an immersion blender, just blend in the cooking pot.
- If your blender cannot blend hot items, allow the soup ingredients to cool before blending.
- Leave the top portion of your blender open for steam to escape. If you keep this opening closed, pressure will build inside your blender and most likely pop the lid open thus mess up your kitchen. You can use a kitchen cloth on the open portion to keep things mess free.
- Make sure your sweet potatoes are fork tender before blending to avoid messing your blender.
- Make sure not to over fill your blender past the allowable limit as it will make blending difficult hence end up with a soup that is not smooth or even pop the lid open and mess up your kitchen.
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp cooking oil
- 1 onions, diced
- 1 cup diced carrots
- 3 garlic cloves. minced
- 1 tbsp fresh minced ginger
- 1 tsp fresh minced turmeric
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 700g Sweet potatoes, peeled & diced
- 4 cups vegetable broth*
- Sea salt & black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Start by preparing all the ingredients: peel & dice the sweet potatoes, peel & dice the carrots, dice the onions & mince the ginger, garlic & turmeric.
- Heat the cooking oil in a large cooking pot. Add the diced onion and carrots and allow to cook till the carrots soften.
- Add the garlic, ginger and turmeric and cook till fragrant.
- Add the paprika, cinnamon and onion powder and stir till well combined.
- Add the diced sweet potatoes and vegetable broth and bring to a boil on medium high heat then reduce the heat to low and allow to simmer while covered for about 20-25 minutes or until the sweet potatoes are fork tender. Remember to season with sea salt & black pepper.
- Transfer the soup ingredients to a blender and blend on high for about a minute or two or until creamy. You can add more broth or water for a thinner consistency. (See Blending tips above on the blog)
- Once blended, add back to the cooking pot and reheat before serving.
- Serve while hot. You can garnish with some coconut cream and pickled onions or any other garnish of your choice and enjoy.
Note
*Incase you don’t have vegetable broth on hand, feel free to use water instead or beef stock or chicken stock.
**Feel free to use a combination of the spices you prefer.
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