Recipe For Sweet Potato Soup
Using sweet potatoes from my garden, this bowl of soup was pure comfort
Makes enough for: 2 people
Ingredients
- 15 mls olive oil
- 1 large leek, thinly sliced
- 1 medium carrot, diced
- 2 cloves garlic, sliced
- 2.5 cm fresh root ginger, peeled and finely chopped
- 2 bay leaves
- 700 g sweet potatoes, roughly chopped
- 1 orange, zest and juice
- 500 mls vegetable stock
- salt and freshly ground black pepper to season
- 10 g coriander, roughly chopped
Method
- Place the olive oil into a large sauce pan
- Heat and sauté the leek until soft
- Add the carrot, garlic, ginger and bay leaves
- Sauté for a further 5 minutes
- Add the potatoes, orange zest and juice and stock
- Bring to the boil
- Reduce the heat, cover and simmer for one hour
- Remove the bay leaves
- Purée until smooth
- Season to taste and heat up before serving
- Garnish with coriander