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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.

  • Time to make: 1 hr
  • Serving: 4 people
Ratings: 4.4
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 1kg orange kumara, 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 coriander or flat-leaf parsley
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    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.

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