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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.