Oh hello, luscious and velvety Sweet Potato Soup! This root vegetable is makes the best sweet and creamy puree. Accentuate it with a healthy dose of smoked paprika and the flavor is earthy, subtly smoky and absolutely irresistible. This healthy soup will please just about anyone: even avowed sweet potato haters! This recipe comes straight from cookbook author and dear friend of ours, Tanorria Askew in her new cookbook Staples +5!
Ingredients in this sweet potato soup
This sweet potato soup recipe is creamy, velvety, smoky, savory, and sweet all at once. This one will impress just about everyone: even people tend to avoid sweet potatoes (like our 4 year old!). It’s got a light swirl of cream to bring a rich body, but you can use full-fat coconut milk for vegan and dairy free. With those options, it works for nearly every diet! Here’s what you’ll need:
Onion, carrots, and celery (see below for a substitute)Sweet potatoesOlive oilSmoked paprika, garlic powder, salt and pepperFresh thyme Bay leavesVegetable brothHeavy cream or full-fat coconut milk
About the book: Staples + 5
This sweet potato soup recipe is from the new cookbook Staples +5 by Tanorria Askew. The great part about this book? It’s all about utilizing your pantry and staple ingredients to make easy, healthy meals! The concept is that you need a base of pantry and fridge items: then add 5 ingredients to that and you can make endless variations of delicious meals! Tanorria is a former MasterChef contestant, personal chef, and incredible person we’re honored to call friend. Now she’s added cookbook author to her resume, and we could not be more thrilled for her! In this book she shares recipes from her family’s Midwestern table, drawing on a tradition of cooking she learned from her grandparents: make the most of what you have, and share it with those you love. We could not recommend this cookbook more! Grab a copy of Staples +5 here.
Tips and substitutions
This sweet potato soup is easy to make at home with a short list of ingredients. Here are a few tips to the cooking process:
Substitute celery seed if desired. When making this soup recipe, we made an error: we thought we had celery in our refrigerator! We substituted 1 carrot and 1 large pinch celery seed, and it turned out great! The earthy undertone from the celery seed was delicious. An immersion blender is helpful. An immersion blender is also called a stick blender, and it’s absolutely essential for pureed soups in our opinion! This way, you can leave the soup in the pot and blend it, instead of transferring to a blender (which can result in hot soup splashing).
Garnishing this sweet potato soup
This sweet potato soup comes out creamy, velvety, lightly smoky, and irresistible. Tanorria recommends candied bacon as a topping, which would take it over the top! Here are a few other ideas for garnishes that she suggests and some ideas of our own:
Coconut bacon or shiitake baconToasted pumpkin seeds (pepitas)Pomegranate seedsChopped pistachiosChopped pecans or walnuts
Make it a meal: side dishes to add
How to make this sweet potato soup recipe into a meal? Pureed soups often need more protein to make them into a filling. Here are a few ways to accessorize this soup and make it into a meal:
Try a Gourmet Grilled Cheese or Grilled Cheese in the OvenAdd a hearty salad like Pear Salad with Pecans, Goat Cheese Salad with Arugula or Smoked Salmon SaladAdd Easy Garlic Bread or Ultimate Cheese Toast
More sweet potato recipes
Sweet potatoes are perhaps our favorite vegetable of all time, over here. Here are a few more tasty sweet potato recipes to try:
Make Baked Sweet Potatoes, Microwaved Sweet Potatoes or Stuffed Sweet PotatoesTry Easy Sweet Potato Wedges, Best Sweet Potato Fries or Roasted Sweet PotatoesBake up Sweet Potato Muffins or Sweet Potato BreadGo for fan favorite Sweet Potato Black Bean Enchiladas, Sweet Potato Curry, or Sweet Potato Tacos
This sweet potato soup recipe is…
Vegetarian, vegan, plant-based, dairy-free and gluten-free. 5 from 1 review
