Slow Cooker Carrot Ginger Sweet Potato Coconut Soup Vegan Food

VEGAN CARROT AND SWEET POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Heat a large heavy-bottomed pot with the olive oil over medium heat. Add the onions and let them cook for about 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Next, add the garlic and ginger and sauté for another minute.
• Add the sweet potatoes, carrots, broth, and coriander (if using), cover the pot and bring everything to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer the soup for another 5 to 7 minutes, until the sweet potatoes are fork tender.
• Turn off the heat, remove the lid and add the chopped cauliflower florets to the pot. Let the soup sit for about 10 minutes.
• Transfer everything to a high-speed blender and blend until smooth. You may need to do this in batches.
• Return the soup to the pot. Season with salt to taste (I added about 1 teaspoon of kosher salt). Add 1/8 teaspoon of cayenne pepper if you want a hint of spice. I like eating the soup at about this temperature. If you want it hotter, warm the soup at medium heat for a few minutes.
• Serve the soup in bowls and top with coconut milk, sliced scallions, and red pepper flakes, if you desire.

ROCKIN CARROT, SWEET POTATO, AND GINGER SOUP

Steps:

• Heat butter and bacon grease in a large pot over medium heat; cook and stir carrots and onion in the melted butter-bacon grease mixture until onion is translucent, 5 to 10 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Add 1/2 the thyme to carrot-onion mixture; cook and stir until thyme is fragrant, 10 to 15 seconds.
• Stir chicken stock, sweet potato, ginger paste, remaining thyme, salt, and pepper into carrot-onion mixture. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer until sweet potato is soft and flavors of soup have blended, 15 to 20 minutes. Mix orange juice, brown sugar, red pepper flakes, and cinnamon into soup.
• Puree soup using a hand blender until smooth; mix in more chicken stock to reach desired consistency. Stir half-and-half into soup.

SLOW COOKER CARROT-GINGER-SWEET POTATO-COCONUT SOUP (VEGAN)

Steps:

• Chop sweet potato and onions to small pieces.
• Put carrots, sweet potato, onions, ginger paste, and curry powder into slow-cooker.
• Pour vegetable stock into slow-cooker.
• Cook in slow-cooker on high for 8 hours (until veggies are soft).
• Add salt to taste.
• Blend with immersion blender.
• Pour in coconut milk while blending.