A quick and simple coconut sweet potato soup made using store cupboard ingredients. Perfect for a light lunch or warming up on a winter’s day. Serve with toasted pitta bread and enjoy.
So it seems that actually for once the weather forecasters might have hit the nail on the head – for today shall be known as Snowpocalypse and Cirencester is currently sitting under a blanket of at least 7 inches of the finest white stuff known to man – snow!
Glancing out of the window, it is still coming down and is just as heavy. Needless to say that the shop is closed today. All my clients contacted me yesterday to either cancel their order or reschedule for next week.
And then when Ian couldn’t get the car up the drive slope this morning it was a done deal. An hour later, his routes to work where closed. Checking in on everyone’s updates in Cirencester, it would seem it’s pretty much a ghost town, so I’m not feeling too guilty about having a snow day like everyone else.
Despite being at home, it’s been a highly productive day for me; a good pre-cursor for how I’m going to work at home when I’m back full-time next month. I’ve quoted, designed, replied, twittered, Facebooked, planned supper, made lunch, tidied the house etc, and it’s still only mid-afternoon. Go Me!
Admittedly, lunch was a simple affair, soup – made from scratch of course, but something quick and warming to take the edge off the snow. I am trying to make sure that we start using up some of those tins that are lurking in the back of the cupboard. I’d noticed last week that we had a can of coconut milk from Waitrose hiding.
There’s no wonder I hadn’t used it yet, I had to stand on a barstool and reach right to the back to find it. 5ft and 1in means that there are often things I come across that I forget are there!
We also seemed to have accumulated a mass of Schwartz spices, and I’m determined to get these used up as well. A quick rummage around in the fridge gave me a couple of sweet potatoes and an onion.
Recommended Equipment
The beauty about this soup is that instead of waiting 20 minutes for chunks of sweet potatoes to soften, this only takes about 5, as you use grated potato. Ok, you get serious arm pump after all that grating but you get your soup quicker! I’d normally use my faithful Magimix, but I’m waiting on a new spindle to arrive.
Looking for more inspiration?
Fancy trying some other quick and easy soups, then why not check out these recipes for inspiration:
- Curried Carrot Soup
- Chilli Tomato and Basil Soup
- Brocolli, Sweet Potato and Courgette Soup
- Easy Peasy Vegetable Soup
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Coconut Sweet Potato Soup
Ingredients
- 650 g Sweet potato approx 2 large
- 1 Onion roughly chopped
- 1 Clove of Garlic mashed
- 1 tsp Dried chilli Flakes
- 1 tsp Paprika
- 1 tsp Cayene Pepper
- 1 tsp Rapeseed Oil
- 100 ml reduced fat coconut milk
- 1 litre Vegetable stock made using Bouillon powder
Instructions
- Grate the sweet potatoes, using either a hand grater or food processor
- Heat the oil in a large saucepan and add the garlic to brown
- Add the onions, cover and soften for 2-4 minutes
- Add the chilli, paprika and cayene pepper to flavour the onions
- Add the grated sweet potato and vegetable stock, cover and simmer for 10 minutes
- Remove from the heat and stir in the coconut milk
- Blitz the soup until smooth using either a hand blender or food processor
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Brrrrrr I think I need some of this…just woken up and looked out the window and it’s started snowing again! This would definitely warm you up on a cold day…looks lovely! 🙂
Thanks Laura 🙂 It’s started snowing again here too, so it’s a good job we’ve still got some of the soup left!
A comforting and VERY pretty soup and a perfect pick-me-up for a snow bound North Yorkshire lass, that’s me! I DO love sweet potatoes in soup and that is a winner. Karen
Thank you Karen, it’s definitely hit the spot with all this snow at the moment. I must admit that sweet potato is soup is definitely a favourite of mine! I’m not a big fan of regular potato based soups, I find them too ‘floury’.