Ah, soup. I don’t know about you but I never appreciated soup as a kid. I think it takes some maturity to recognize just how wonderful a good soup can be. Soup can be so delicious, comforting, colorful, flavorful and it can do all this while still being healthy too.
This soup manages to be very creamy while still being vegan-friendly. It’s sure to warm you up with the added spicy kick from a few chipotle peppers. And I’m pretty sure sweet potatoes are, like, really good for you. A super food or something. My point is: Eat this. Do it.
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Spicy Chipotle Sweet Potato Soup, makes 2 servings
Needed:
1-2 tablespoons oil
1/2 yellow onion
2-3 cloves minced garlic
1 large sweet potato (or 2 if yours are on the small side)
1-2 chipotle peppers in adobo sauce (one can)
veggie or chicken stock
salt + pepper
few sprinkles of cilantro for garnish.
First, chop up the onion and potato and mince the garlic. In a medium size spot, heat oil over medium heat and sauté the onion and garlic for a couple of minutes. Add in the potato and chopped chipotle pepper.
I used two peppers plus about two teaspoons adobo sauce. This made the final soup quite spicy. I thought it was just the right amount for me, but if you like a little less spice or have never cooked with chipotle peppers before try just one pepper.
Add the stock and turn the heat down to medium/low. Let this cook (softening the potatoes) for 20 minutes or so. I had very thinly sliced my potatoes but if you left yours more chunky you may need to cook them a little longer.
Season with salt and pepper. Blend into a soup. Serve hot with cilantro and a maybe a slice of fancy toast. If you have fancy toast at your house.
There are a few ways to blend soup. You can transfer the contents to a blender or food processor and puree. This can be done in batches if you are making a larger quantity.
I’ve done this and it works fine but be very careful when pureeing hot liquids. I currently use (and LOVE) my immersion blender. If you’re planning to make soups a part of your weekly or even monthly routine I highly recommend treating yourself to an immersion blender. Plus they come in so many pretty colors!
My boyfriend and I are such fans of this soup, we’ve made it twice in the past week! Thank you so much, Emma, for posting this perfect Fall recipe!!
I made this last night and it was absolutely delish!! Thank you for the inspiration! 🙂
Made this soup last night, it was super good and super easy!!!! Thanks a bunch, xo!
Just made the soup… Really good stuff except too spicy for my boyfriend. Thanks for the great recipe!
Thank you for this recipe, can wait to try it. Im from Mexico and I already feel it will taste like home.
i just recently got an immersion blender and this is the first recipe i made with it… and it was so delicious! thanks for sharing this recipe!
This looks amazing! Love soup and bread season. -jb.
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I made this yesterday as part of a huge soup stock up and had it for lunch today. It is absolutely delightful and spicy.
Perfect for fighting my current head cold too! I doubled the recipe and split it into mason jars for individual portions. While heating my jar up today, you also inspired a future blog post for my blog: an adjustable mason jar cozy!
Thanks for helping me stay inspired and for your always wonderful content.
This recipe is a keeper! I made this last night and it was very good! Pretty spicy but its fall now and heat from the soup was nice, thanks 🙂
this looks delicious! I really have to try this out. soups are the best!
This sounds PERFECT (if it will ever cool down here in Texas). Yum. We’ll have to try it out soon. 🙂
I’ve been a soup lover forever and eat it pretty regularly, always have. This looks delicious!!! Mmm!!!!!!
I’m going to make this for my boyfrend and I on date night next week! we both love spicy anything!!
This looks delicious, but am I overlooking what you do with the cloves? Not a huge fan of cloves, so I would probably just leave them out, but others might like to know. 😉
LOVE our immersion blender! Makes blended soups super easy!
I made this last night!!! It was so amazing!
LOVE soup!!!! I basically eat it all fall/winter long and always good to have some new ones!
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I’ will try it today for dinner! thanks for sharing!
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Ah love potatatoe soup!
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I am craving soup now, ’tis the season for soup!
Looks delicious! Will try this for our new Sunday theme The Sunday soup Challenge! Thanks!