Red Bell Pepper And Sweet Potato Soup Food

RED BELL PEPPER AND SWEET POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the oil.
• Saute the onions and garlic for about 10-15 minutes on medium heat, or until the onions are soft and very lightly browned.
• Add the bell peppers and saute for another 10-15 minutes, until the bell peppers are soft and everything is lightly browned.
• Add the sweet potato, vegetable broth, bay leaves, salt, and butter and simmer for 10-15 minutes, until the sweet potato is soft.
• Remove the bay leaves and blend the soup until mostly smooth.
• Enjoy!

ROASTED RED PEPPER AND SWEET POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• In a roasting pan, toss together the peppers, potatoes, onion, garlic, oil, Italian seasonings, salt and pepper.
• Roast @ 425*, for 1 hour, or until tender and golden around the edges. Make sure you stir the vegetables at least once during cooking.
• In a food processor, puree the vegetables with stock in batches. Strain into a large pot.
• Whisk in 1 cup water.
• Bring soup to boil; cover, reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
• Serve, topped with the yogurt that's been mixed with the parsley.

SWEET POTATO & RED PEPPER SOUP

Steps:

• Peel the sweet potatoes and cut into pieces (otherwise they will take forever to boil properly).
• Cut onion into small pieces.
• Seed and cut up the red peppers.
• Add the potatoes, onion and peppers into a large pan with the 2 pints of stocked water (if you've had a roast chicken the night before then using the carcass for stock makes a world of difference).
• Bring to boil them reduce heat slightly and simmer for 20-30 minutes.
• Blend the ingredients together using whatever implement you have, blenders and hand blenders are the most convenient ones to use. Blend until there are few to no bits left.
• Add hot sauce to taste (not much is needed though).
• Add black pepper to taste.
• Heat soup again while stirring for a couple of minutes and serve. Have a good loaf of bread heady, it's the best way to eat soup.

BUTTERNUT SQUASH, SWEET POTATO AND RED PEPPER SOUP

Steps:

• Peel the squash, sweet potato, carrots, and onion.
• Dice the above ingredients and the red pepper and parsley.
• Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan and soften all the above ingredients for a few minutes.
• Make up a pint of stock with the stock cube and pour this over the softened vegetables.
• Add the salt and pepper to taste, add more water if required.
• Put a lid on the pan and simmer until the carrots, sweet potato and squash are all completely cooked.
• Take the pan off the heat and leave to cool a bit, then liquidise the whole lot until smooth.
• Serve with nice fresh crusty bread.

ROASTED PEPPER POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, saute onions in oil until tender. Stir in the roasted peppers, chiles, cumin, salt and coriander. Cook and stir for 2 minutes. Stir in potatoes and broth; bring to a boil. , Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 10-15 minutes or until potatoes are tender. Stir in cilantro and lemon juice. Cool slightly. In a blender, process the cream cheese and half the soup until smooth. Return all to pan and heat through.

ROASTED RED PEPPER AND SWEET POTATO SOUP (GLUTEN-FREE)

Steps:

• Roast bell peppers. For instructions on how to roast peppers, please Google.
• Peel the roasted peppers and slice them into strips. Set aside.
• Heat butter or olive oil in a soup pan and sauté the chopped onion until it becomes translucent.
• Add pepper strips and diced potatoes.
• Add vegetable stock or water & soup base enough to barely cover the vegetables.
• Cook until the vegetables are tender.
• Purée the soup using a blender or hand blender.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Infuse love and serve!

ROASTED RED PEPPER AND POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large pot over medium heat, and mix in the olive oil. Saute the onion, carrot, and celery for about 5 minutes, until onion is lightly browned. Stir in the garlic, and continue to cook 1 minute. Mix in the flour. Whisk in the chicken broth, and bring to a boil. Place the potatoes in the pot, reduce heat to low, and cook 15 minutes, until potatoes are tender.
• Mix the half-and-half into the pot. Stir in the roasted red peppers. Season with thyme, salt, and pepper. Continue cooking until heated through.

PUREED RED PEPPER AND POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil over medium heat in a large, heavy soup pot and add the onion and carrot. Cook, stirring often, until the onion begins to soften, and add 1/2 teaspoon salt. Continue to cook, stirring often, until tender, about 5 minutes, and stir in the garlic and the tomato paste. Stir for a minute or two, until the garlic is fragrant and the tomato paste has darkened, and add the peppers, paprika, and another 1/2 teaspoon salt. Cook, stirring often, until the peppers begin to soften, about 5 minutes.
• Add the potatoes, stock, and bouquet garni and bring to a simmer. Add salt to taste, 1 to 2 teaspoons, cover and simmer over low heat for 1 hour. Remove the bouquet garni.
• Using an immersion blender, or in a blender or food processor fitted with the steel blade (working in batches and covering the blender lid or food processor with a kitchen towel to prevent the hot soup from splashing), blend the soup until smooth. Strain the soup through a medium strainer, pushing it through the strainer with a spatula or the bowl of a ladle, and return to the heat. Heat through, add salt and pepper to taste, and serve. Garnish with garlic croutons and slivered fresh basil or chopped thyme, and drizzle a few drops of olive oil over each serving if desired.