Sweet Potato Soup

Sweet Potato soup is perfect recipe for cold winter nights when you need something nourishing, wholesome and light for dinner. This soup is rich blend of creamy sweet potatoes, fresh ginger and garlic with few spices. Garnish it with some coconut cream, pomegranate and parsley for a filling meal.

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IMPORTANT TIPS

Use orange skin sweet potatoes for creamier soup.
Before blending make sure sweet potatoes are fork tender and let soup cool down a little bit before using immersion blender.
Be careful when blending soup as it is very hot.
If you do not have immersion blender you can blend this soup using regular blender. Make sure you do not fill your blender past the maximum fill line.
I have used 4 cups vegetable broth in this recipe but you can adjust the amount based on consistency of soup you like.
For garnish I have use pomegranate, coconut cream and parsley. But you can garnish with your choice of toppings- croutons, roasted chickpeas, pepitas, crushed black pepper, sesame seeds, red chili flakes, pistachios etc.

INGREDIENTS

1 tbsp Olive oil
1 yellow onion
2 carrots
2 garlic cloves
1 tbsp freshly grated ginger
Salt as per taste
1/2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp Aleppo pepper
2 medium sweet potatoes
4 cups vegetable broth

Garnish

Coconut Cream
Pomegranate
Parsley

INSTRUCTIONS

Chopped all the vegetables- finely chopped onions, diced carrots, and diced sweet potatoes

Heat the oil in large pot on medium high heat. Add diced onions and carrots and stir frequently for about 5 to 6 minutes

Add ginger (freshly grated), garlic (minced), salt, aleppo peppers and cumin powder. Stir 2-3 minutes or until fragrant

Add diced sweet potatoes and vegetable broth. Turn the heat to high and bring to boil. Then reduced the heat to low, add a lid and simmer for 10-15 minutes or until the sweet potatoes are fork tender.

Let soup cool down slightly before blending. Blend soup using immersion blender until creamy OR use a ladle and carefully transfer the soup to high power blender and blend for 1 minute or until creamy. You can make soup more thinner by adding water or broth.