Sweet Potato 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.

SAFFRON SWEET POTATO AND RED PEPPER SOUP

Steps:

• Heat broiler to high. Line a baking sheet with foil. Arrange red peppers on sheet skin side up and broil about 4 inches from heat until skin is very charred, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove from oven and wrap peppers in foil to steam skin loose, 10 to 15 minutes. Peel off skin and coarsely chop flesh.
• In a 4-quart saucepan, heat olive oil. Add onion, 3 thyme sprigs, bay leaf and salt. Cover and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until soft, about 10 minutes. Add sweet potatoes, bell peppers, stock, 2 cups water and saffron and bring to a boil. Uncover, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 15 minutes.
• Discard thyme sprigs and bay leaf. Using an immersion blender, purée soup. Taste and add salt if needed, and white pepper. Ladle soup into bowls and garnish with leaves from remaining thyme sprigs and a drizzle of olive oil.

RED PEPPER POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet.
• Place the red bell pepper on the prepared baking sheet and roast in the preheated oven until the skin blisters, 15 to 20 minutes. Handling carefully, cut small slits with a knife into each of the 4 sides of the hot pepper. Immediately plunge the pepper a small bowl full of ice water for 2 minutes. Slice the pepper in half. Remove and discard the skin. Chop the flesh into small pieces. Set aside.
• While the pepper roasts, melt the butter in a large pot over medium heat. Cook the onion, celery, and garlic in the melted butter until tender, about 5 minutes. Pour 3 cups of the chicken stock into the pot; season with salt and pepper. Add 3 more cups of the chicken stock, the carrots, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Stir the potatoes into the soup along with the remaining 2 cups of stock; bring to a boil for 10 minutes. Add the roasted pepper, sage, and ginger. Continue boiling until the potatoes and carrots are tender, another 10 to 15 minutes. Serve hot.

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.

SPICY SWEET POTATO AND RED PEPPER SOUP

Steps:

• Peel and roughly chop the sweet potato
• De-seed the pepper and chilli and roughly chop
• Add ingredients to a pan and add in the stock, season with salt and pepper
• Bring to the boil then simmer for 20-30 minutes until vegetables are tender.
• Remove from the heat and allow to cool slightly, then blend with hand blender or in liquidiser until smooth. Check seasoning and adjust to taste if necessary.

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.

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.

HELEN'S SWEET POTATO & RED PEPPER STEW

Steps:

• Peel and dice the sweet potato. Cook in boiling water for 15 minutes, or until tender, then drain.
• Peel and finely chop the onion and carrot, then deseed and dice the pepper. Pick and finely chop the parsley leaves.
• Heat the oil in a medium pan on a medium heat, add the onion and fry for around 8 to 10 minutes, or until softened. Add the carrot and pepper, then cook for a further 5 minutes.
• Pour in the tomatoes, add ½ a tin's worth of water, then cook with the lid on for 25 minutes, or until the vegetables are soft.
• Add the sweet potato, peas and parsley, then cook for 1 minute, or until warm through.
• Allow to cool, then chop or mash to the desired consistency. For more information on stages of complementary feeding, click here.

TOMATO AND SWEET PEPPER SOUP

Steps:

• Put the butter in a large pan, when the butter is melted: add the chopped onion and garlic: cook until translucent. After this add the chopped red pepper, tomatoes and the potatoes and coat in the butter.
• Add the vegetable stock and bring to the boil. Cook the vegetables until the potatoes are cooked through. This should be between 20 to 30 minutes.
• Take the soup off the heat, let the soup cool a little then blend using a hand blender.
• Add the creme fraiche to make the soup creamy if wanted.
• Serve with freshly buttered crusty bread.

SWEET POTATO & RED PEPPER SOUP

Steps:

• Peel and slice the sweet potatoes into discs about a half centimetre thick.
• Put the sweet potoatoes, onions, red pepper and cumin into an oven proof bowl and pour over the olive oil.
• Roast in the oven at 200C for about 45 minutes until all the ingredients are soft.
• Put the cooked vegetables into a blender and add the hot vegetable stock. Blend to a liquid and serve. Add more vegetable stock if you require a thinner consistency.

BETH SACHS

Steps:

• Fry the sweet potatoes, peppers, onion, thyme and garlic, in a large pan for 10 minutes.
• Add the vegetable stock and the chilli sauce and simmer for 30-40 minutes on the hob, until the sweet potatoes are cooked through.
• Blend with a stick blender until smooth and serve.

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.