Steps to Prepare Homemade Spiced Sweet Potato Soup

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, spiced sweet potato soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook spiced sweet potato soup using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Spiced Sweet Potato Soup:

1. Take sweet potatoes or yams (about 2 large ones. I used the purple skinned Japanese yams)
2. Take onion
3. Get butter or olive oil
4. Make ready vegetable or other broth (I use kombu broth)
5. Get salt
6. Get ground cinnamon, more to taste
7. Take ground nutmeg, more to taste
8. Prepare milk (optional)

We start the soup by cooking a base of onions, celery, and leeks in butter. Sweet potato soup is the perfect fall and winter soup. It's a rich blend of creamy sweet potatoes, carrots, fresh ginger, and a hint of spice. Deeply flavored and spicy, this rich soup makes a delicious first course.

Instructions to make Spiced Sweet Potato Soup:

1. Scrub the sweet potato to remove any dirt. Peel skin if you like and cut into cubes (I used purple skinned Japanese sweet potatoes so left the skin on because I like the color and flavor). Slice the onion thin.
2. Heat the butter or olive oil in a medium pot. Add the onions and saute on medium low until soft and translucent.
3. Add the sweet potatoes, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg and stir for a minute to coat in oil and distribute the spices.
4. Pour in enough broth to just cover everything. Bring to a boil, turn to low heat and simmer with the lid on for about 15 minutes until the sweet potatoes are soft.
5. After the sweet potatoes are soft, blend the soup with a stick blender or mixer of some sort until smooth and thick. If it's too thick, add a little more broth - or - to make it a little creamier add 100 to 200 ml milk and mix well.
6. Adjust taste with salt, and more spices if you like. Serve in bowls and garnish with another dash of cinnamon, or thick yogurt, or cream.

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