Baked Sweet Potato Soup is a creamy good for you easy to prepare soup, that is loaded with fresh ingredients making it gluten-free, dairy free, and soy free.
Happy Monday!
Hope you guys enjoyed your weekend.
I spent the weekend in my closet. Yes, I know riveting right? I basically went through and took piles to make more piles and refolded everything. I did manage to get a good pile of items to give to good will. I have a problem parting with stuff sometimes. It is always the “what if’s” that make me hesitate. Though I do feel liberated now that closet cleaning is off my “to do list.”
I also spent time pulling out my biking stuff, because next week I am going on a trip to California to go biking through the wine country. OH MY GOD, I am so excited. Though I am worried about my hiney. I mean I do bike, and spin regularly, but let’s face it sitting on a bike for hours ain’t’ the same as biking for 30 or more miles a day. I might just be that women who wear two pairs of padded bike shorts the first day, just to make sure I can make it onto the bike on day two. I won’t be sharing pictures of that, so don’t ask.
Enough about my hiney worries and onto this AMAZING soup.
I can not tell you enough how darn good this soup is, but I am going to try. This is so good, so good, so good.
The ingredients are such a happy blending of flavors it just sings in your mouth. The sweet potato and coconut were made to be together and the bit of kick from the red pepper topped off with some crispy salty bacon. SO GOOD!
I hope you try this recipe, you won’t be disappointed with its flavor or how healthy it is. If you make this recipe, please let me know! Leave a comment below or take a photo and tag me on Instagram or Twitter with #ahealthylifeforme.
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Baked Sweet Potato Soup
Ingredients
Sweet Potato:
- 2 lb sweet potatoes {about 2 potatoes}
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin coconut oil
- 1/2 yellow onion diced {1 cup}
- 1 celery stalk diced {1/2 cup}
- 1 carrot peeled and diced {1/2 cup}
- 1 large garlic clove minced {1 tablespoon}
- 1/4 cup dry white wine {you can substitute chicken stock}
- 3 tablespoon arrowroot flour
- 1 1/4 cup unsweetened coconut milk
- 1 1/4 cup coconut cream {cream from one can- if it doesn't measure 1 1/4 add additional coconut milk to measure}
- 2 cups low sodium chicken broth
- 1 tablespoon dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 1 teaspon red pepper flakes
- Salt and pepper to taste
Topping:
- 3 slices of uncured bacon cooked, cubed
- Shredded Manchego cheese {optional omit for dairy free}
Instructions
Sweet Potato:
- Preheat oven to 450°
- Cut potatoes in half, place on baking sheet and rub all sides of potato with olive oil
- Cook for 30 minutes or can easily be pierced with fork., Remove let cool slightly and remove skin.
- Mash potatoes in bowl set aside.
- Place bacon on same cooking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes until cooked to your liking
- In the meantime place a large pot or dutch oven over medium high heat and melt coconut oil; add onion, celery, carrot, and galric and cook until softened, 3-4 minutes.
- Add wine and cook until evaporated, 2 minutes.
- Stir in arrowroot flour and cook stirring constantly until the vegetables are coated and are a bit sticky. Slowly stir in chicken broth and coconut milk and coconut cream.
- Add dijon, paprika and red pepper flakes. Reduce heat to low and cover, cook 12-15 minutes.
- Add mashed swee tpotatoes and season with salt to pepper to your taste.
- Serve in bowls topped with bacon and cheese if desired.
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Cooked it! Loved it! I was worried it wasn’t going to be thick enough but adding the mashed sweet potato made it perfect.
I also stirred some bacon pieces through the soup and put a dollop of sour cream on top (not so healthy but very yummy)
That soup looks amazing!
Thanks Kellie.
Can you make this ahead? Has anyone tried freezing it?
Yes Kathi, you can make it ahead. It reheats very well. You can also freeze it. Here is a link to a great article on how to freeze almost any soup, thought you might like to read: http://www.thekitchn.com/freezer-meals-5-simple-tips-for-freezing-any-soup-177405