Simple Sweet Potato Soup Food

QUICK AND EASY SWEET POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Put sweet potatoes into a large pot. Pour chicken broth over the sweet potatoes; bring to a boil, stir orange liqueur into the boiling broth, and cook until the potatoes are tender, about 25 minutes.
• Puree the sweet potatoes with the broth using an immersion blender until smooth.
• Stir half-and-half, nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon, and cayenne pepper into the pureed sweet potatoes; season with salt and pepper.
• Heat a skillet over medium-high heat. Toast pecans in the hot skillet until fragrant.
• Ladle soup into bowls; garnish with toasted pecans.

SIMPLE SWEET POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Place potatoes and ginger in large saucepan. Pour in chicken stock and water, and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to medium low, cover, and simmer until the potatoes have softened, about 30 minutes.
• Puree potatoes and lime juice in a food processor, or with a hand blender until smooth. Return soup to saucepan and stir in milk or cream as desired; heat until warmed through.

EASY SWEET POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Peel and cut sweet potatoes into 1'' cubes, set aside.
• In large saucepan, heat oil over medium heat.
• Add onion, garlic, ginger and curry paste.
• Cook, stirring occasionally for 3 minutes or until softened.
• Add sweet potatoes, stir for 1 min or until coated.
• Add broth and bring to boil.
• Reduce heat, cover and simmer 10 min or until potatoes are tender.
• Cool.
• Puree cooled soup in blender.
• Reheat and serve.

SWEET POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• In a heavy saucepot, over medium-low heat, cook the flour and butter, stirring constantly until roux achieves a light caramel color. Add the broth and brown sugar, bring to a boil, then lower to a simmer. Stir in the sweet potatoes and spices, bring to a simmer again, and cook for 5 minutes more. In a blender, puree the soup in batches and return to saucepot. Add the milk, and reheat soup. Season with salt and pepper, ladle into warm soup bowls and serve.

CREAM OF SWEET POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Bake sweet potatoes in preheated oven until soft, about 1 1/2 hours (you can also use a microwave). Remove and let cool slightly.
• Peel sweet potatoes, and puree with chicken broth in batches, using enough chicken broth so that it purees smoothly. Bring puree to a simmer in a large saucepan over medium-high heat, then reduce heat to medium-low. Stir in the sugar, salt, nutmeg, black pepper, and cayenne pepper; cover, and let simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat, and stir in cream.

SWEET POTATO & PEAR SOUP

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large pot over a medium heat, and sauté onion for 2-3 minutes until softened but not brown.
• Add the diced sweet potato and diced pear, and sauté for 3-4 minutes.
• If using canned pears, only sauté the diced sweet potato at this stage and add the pears later.
• Add the chicken broth to the pot, bring to the boil and simmer gently for 20-25 minutes, or until the sweet potato (and pears) are soft.
• If including wine in your soup, add this in the last 10 minutes while the soup is simmering.
• Cool the soup for about 30 minutes.
• If using canned pears, drain these well, reserve the juice and add the pears now.
• They will help to cool down the soup.
• There is no need to chop the pears as the soup is about to be processed.
• In batches, process the chicken broth, sweet potatoes and pears until smooth in a blender or a food processor.
• Adjust the thickness of the soup so that it is to your liking by adding either more pears or some of the reserved pear juice, or more wine.
• Return the soup to the pot.
• If serving straight away: gently reheat, without bringing to the boil, stir in a swirl of yogurt and garnish with fresh mint or parsley.
• If serving later: refrigerate after processing.
• If taking to work for lunch: take the required quantity of yogurt in a separate container and spoon onto soup after it has been heated in the microwave.
• If freezing: freeze after processing.
• When ready to serve, defrost, gently reheat, without bringing to the boil, stir in a swirl of yogurt and garnish with fresh mint or parsley.

ROASTED SWEET POTATO & CARROT SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/ gas 7 and put 500g chunked sweet potatoes and 300g chunked carrots into a large roasting tin, drizzled with 2 tbsp olive oil and plenty of seasoning.
• Roast the vegetables in the oven for 25-30 mins or until caramelised and tender.
• Meanwhile, put the remaining 1 tbsp olive oil in a large deep saucepan and fry 2 finely chopped onions over a medium-low heat for about 10 mins until softened.
• Add 2 crushed garlic cloves and stir for 1 min before adding 1l vegetable stock. Simmer for 5-10 mins until the onions are very soft, then set aside.
• Once the roasted vegetables are done, leave to cool a little, then transfer to the saucepan and use a hand blender to process until smooth. Stir in 100ml crème fraîche, a little more seasoning and reheat until hot.
• Serve in bowls topped with a swirl of crème fraîche and a good grinding of black pepper.

SWEET POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, saute the onion, red pepper and carrots in oil for 3 minutes. Stir in the ginger, garlic, cayenne and pepper; cook 2 minutes longer. Add the broth, tomatoes and sweet potato. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes or until potatoes are tender., Cool slightly. In a blender, cover and process soup in batches until smooth. Return all to pan and heat through. Stir in peanut butter and honey. Cook and stir until peanut butter is melted. Garnish servings with green onions.

SWEET POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Bake the potatoes at 375 F until they're soft and mashable. It should take about 45-60 minutes. (Do the other stuff while the potatoes are baking.).
• Get a large soup pot and heat the oil over medium heat.
• Add the onions and cook them until they're transparent (five minutes or so).
• Stir in the curry powder. Cook for another minute while stirring.
• Add the tomato paste and cook for a couple of minutes. Make sure to stir it so nothing sticks to the bottom and burns.
• Stir in the peanut butter and coconut milk.
• Add the veggie stock and bring it all to a simmer. Leave it to cook while the potatoes are baking.
• When the potatoes are tender enough to mash, and cool enough to hold, take off the skins and mash up the potatoes. Add them to the soup.
• Bring the soup to a simmer, stirring. Enjoy!