Sweet Potato Soup Recipe

Sweet Potato Soup

This soup was brought to my attention by my client Sue. It is a great warmer with a pleasant kick from added ginger. Good natural ingredients and great flavour. This soup can also be batch cooked and frozen for quick, convenient meal reserves.

Ingredients

• 1 glug of olive oil
• 1 large chopped onion
• 2 cm piece of grated root ginger
• 1 finely chopped
• 1 tbsp garam masala
• 1 tsp cumin
• 850ml vegetable stock
• 2 large sliced carrots
• 1 tin chickpeas drained
• 100g chopped green beans
• Salt & pepper to taste
• Fresh or ground coriander to garnish

Directions

1. Heat the oil in a pan and fry the onion, ginger and garlic along with the garam masala and cumin for approx 3 mins.
2. Add the the stock, carrots and chickpeas, simmer for 10 mins.
3. Remove half the vegetables and place in separate bowl. Blend the remaining contents of the pan and then return the reserved vegetables.
4. Add in the green beans and seasoning to taste and simmer for a further 5 mins.
5. Garnish with coriander and serve.