

Sweet potato soup with garlic
Last updated date: 27 May 2022
(at time of publication)
Ingredients
- 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
Instructions
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
HFG tip
This recipe uses orange sweet potato (kumara) which is the Beauregard variety.
Nutrition Info (per serve)
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Calories 380cal
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Kilojoules 1590kJ
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Protein 5g
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Total fat 9g
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–Saturated fat 6g
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Carbohydrates 70g
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–Sugars 13g
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Dietary fibre 9g
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Sodium 510mg
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Calcium 70mg
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Iron 3mg
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