Sweet potato soup with garlic

This sweet potato soup is a great family winter meal, very tasty and a handy way to use up leftover roast vegetables. High fibre, filling and delicious.

Serves: 4

Time to make: 1 hr

Ingredients

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1kg orange kumarasweet-potatoX, peeled, cut in chunks
1 onion, finely chopped
2 bulbs garlic, trimmed
spray oil
1 tablespoon curry powder
4 cups hot salt-reduced vegetable stock made with 4 cups water and 3 teaspoons salt-reduced stock powder
1 cup reduced-fat coconut cream
2 tablespoons fresh coriandercilantroX or flat-leaf parsley

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Instructions

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1 Preheat oven to 200°C. Place sweet potato, onion and garlic in a large roasting pan. Spray with oil, re-spraying halfway through cooking. Cook for 30 minutes or until tender.

2 Tip sweet potato and onion into a large non-stick saucepan. Squeeze garlic from 1 roasted garlic bulb and add flesh to pan. Stir in curry powder.

3 Add hot stock to pan with coconut cream. Use a blender to purée soup until smooth.

4 Return to pan, heat through and season with freshly ground black pepper.

5 Garnish with coriander and the remaining roasted garlic, peeled.

Serving suggestion

Serve with crusty bread

Variations

Make it vegan: Use a vegan stock

Replace half the sweet potato with pumpkin for a delicious pumpkin and sweet potato soup.
Make it gluten free: Use gluten-free varieties of stock and curry powder.

More delicious sweet-potato (kumara) soups:

Kumara pumpkin & chickpea soup

Chicken and kumara miso soup

Moroccon lamb kumara soup

Kumara coconut and lentil soup

Kumara and chickpea soup

HFG tip

This recipe uses orange sweet potato (kumara) which is the Beauregard variety.

Nutrition Info (per serve)

Calories 380 cal

Kilojoules 1590 kJ

Protein 5 g

Total fat 9 g

Saturated fat 6 g

Carbohydrates 70 g

Sugar 13 g

Dietary fibre 9 g

Sodium 510 mg

Calcium 70 mg

Iron 3 mg

Note: This nutrition analysis is a guide only. Nutrition composition will vary depending on the exact ingredients used. See our guides on your optimal daily nutrition intake, and supermarket shopping.