Spicy Sweet Potato And Red Pepper Soup Food

ROASTED RED PEPPER, SWEET POTATO & SMOKED PAPRIKA SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Put the sweet potato, pepper, onion and garlic on a baking tray. Sprinkle with the paprika and seasoning, then drizzle with the oil. Toss together. Roast for 30 mins or until beginning to brown.
• Tip the roasted vegetables into a blender (or use a stick blender) with the coconut milk, stock, sriracha and maple syrup. Whizz until smooth. Pour back into the pan and heat until piping hot. Check for seasoning, and pour into a flask. Serve with soda bread or toasted sourdough.

SWEET AND SPICY SWEET POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large soup pot over medium heat; cook and stir shallots in the hot oil until soft, about 3 minutes. Stir apples, ginger, zest from 1 lime, red pepper flakes, and cayenne pepper into the pot. Reserve lime juice. Cook and stir mixture until apples are very soft, about 15 minutes.
• Pour chicken broth into pot; add sweet potatoes and salt. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes. Puree soup with an immersion blender until smooth. Stir reserved lime juice into soup. Garnish with lime wedges to serve.

SPICY SWEET POTATO RED PEPPER SOUP

Steps:

• After sweet potatoes are boiled, drain, put back into dutch oven or large pot, add stock.
• Add diced roasted red bell peppers (roast your own if you like), butter & sauteed onion to potatoes & broth mixture.
• Blend until smooth with a stick blender (or regular blender).
• Season to taste, adding sugar if you think you need it.
• Serve in bowls, adding about a tablespoon of goat cheese to each serving.
• Drizzle each bowl with a little hot chili oil, which you can find in asian markets.

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.

SPICY SWEET POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• In a small bowl, stir together the sour cream and lime zest. Set aside in the refrigerator to allow the flavors to blend.
• Melt butter in a large pot over medium heat. Add onion and garlic, and cook for about 5 minutes, until softened. Add sweet potatoes, and chicken stock. Season with cumin, chili flakes and ginger. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer for 15 minutes, until potatoes are tender.
• Puree the soup using an immersion blender or regular blender. If using a counter top blender, puree in small batches, filling the blender just a bit past half way to avoid spillage. Whisk peanut butter into the soup, and heat through. Stir in lime juice, and salt.
• Ladle into warm bowls, and top with a dollop of the reserved sour cream, a few pieces of diced tomato, and a sprinkle of cilantro.

SWEET RED PEPPER SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat.
• Add the onion and garlic.
• Cook for 5-8 minutes or until onions are tender.
• Add the red peppers.
• Continue cooking for 5 minutes.
• Add the stock, freshly ground pepper and salt.
• Bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 25 minutes.
• Put soup through a food mill to remove the pepper skins.
• Return to saucepan.
• Add cream and heat through without boiling.

SPICY SWEET POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in a medium saucepan over low heat. Add cumin and coriander seeds cook, stirring often, until seeds begin to pop. Add curry powder, dry mustard, garlic and ginger and cook until fragrant. Add chile, tomatoes,broth and salt. Bring to a boil. Add sweet potato and cook and return to a boil. Cook over low heat until sweet potato is tender. Serve with lime wedges.

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.