Soup
African Sweet Potato Soup
This African Sweet Potato Soup boasts an unusual ingredient – peanut butter! It is delicious and will wake up your
- Serves 4 -5 servings
- Prep 12 minutes
- Cook 25 minutes
- Total 37 minutes
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As you may have noticed I am a huge fan of soup. It ticks so many boxes for me – easy to prepare, healthy, purse-friendly and, above all, delicious.
I am always on the look out for new soup recipes and when I stumbled across this recipe for African Sweet Potato Soup I was very intrigued.
Turns out it is one of the most flavour-packed soups ever… To the tune of ‘Everything is AWESOME!!’ from the Lego movie, altogether now, ♬♬ This soup is AWESOME….. ♬♬
It might sound completely ridiculous, but food bloggers are often simply surrounded by food, yet still have nothing to eat for lunch.
And by ‘nothing’ I mean nothing sensible and nutritious. I frequently have a choice of cake, cupcakes or pie for dessert, but literally nothing savoury other than toast to eat.
Hence soup. Soup is my every day, too busy to cook, saviour. I could, and do, eat soup almost daily in the winter.
My spinach soup is a firm favourite, or if I need something more filling, I opt for minestrone or ribolita.
This African sweet potato soup is definitely quite filling – must be the peanut butter! – and it will also wake up your taste buds with a spicy kick. Serve with a thick slice of Sourdough!
Can’t Get Enough of Soup? Are You a Lover of All Things Spicy? Here’s Some More Tasty Inspiration from the Blogosphere…
- Thai roasted squash and sweet potato soup from Vikalinka
- Spiced roast pumpkin soup from Domestic Gothess
- Warmly spiced peanut sweet potato and black eye pea stew from Kellie’s food to glow.
- Spicy parsnip and sweet potato soup from Kitchen Sanctuary.
Recipe
African sweet potato soup
- Serves 4 -5 servings
- Prep 12 minutes
- Cook 25 minutes
- Total 37 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 large onion (finely chopped)
- 2 garlic cloves (finely minced)
- 1 tsp cumin seeds (or ground cumin)
- ½ tsp chili flakes (plus more to garnish)
- 2 tsp finely grated fresh ginger
- 1 tsp sugar
- 3 large sweet potatoes (peeled and cubed)
- 1 large parsnip (peeled and cubed)
- 1 red pepper (de-seeded and roughly chopped)
- 14 oz (400g) can chopped tomatoes
- 4 cups (900ml) hot vegetable stock
- 2-3 tbsp smooth peanut butter
- salt and pepper to season
- handful finely chopped roasted peanuts to garnish (optional)
- 1-2 tbsp olive oil to fry
Method
- 1
Heat the oil in a large pot and add the cumin seeds, chili flakes and ginger. Fry for a minute then add the onion, garlic and sugar stirring for a few minutes over medium-low heat until onion is soft.
- 2
Add the sweet potato, parsnip and tomatoes and stir for a couple of minutes.
- 3
Add the stock, bring to the boil and then simmer for about 15 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
- 4
Pulse the soup in a blender (or use an immersion blender) until smooth.
- 5
Return to the pot then stir in the peanut butter.
- 6
Check the seasoning and serve with a sprinkling of chili flakes, a handful of chopped roasted peanuts, and a drizzle of oil.
