Sweet Potato Peanut Bisque | Soup Saga Continues Recipe
- Sweet Potato : around 3-4 cups chopped
- Olive Oil: 2 tsp +
- Onion: 1 small chopped
- Garlic: 2 small cloves minced
- Green Chillies: 1-2 medium size chopped
- Fresh Ginger: 2 tsp minced
- Allspice: 1/2 tsp ground
- Vegetable Stock/ Water: 1 cup +as needed
- Peanut Butter: 6-8 tbsp as per preference
- Salt &Pepper: as per taste
Preparation:
Cook the sweetpotatoes either in steamer or microwave. You can even roast the sweetpotato and then chop it. Choose the sweetpotato accordingly to get roughly 3-4 cups.Peel and chop the sweet potatoes and keep aside.
Heat oil in a deep bowl and saute onion until its transparent and start to brown. Add in minced garlic and saute till raw smell goes. Then add in the green chillies, ginger, allspice and the tomato juice. Bring the mix to boil and let it cook for another 10 minutes on medium heat.
Add half of the cooked sweetpotato to the pot and continue cooking. Add the rest to a blender or food processer along with peanut butter and veg stock/water and puree until smooth. Add this puree to tho the soup pot and let it continue to simmer for few more minutes.
Adjust salt and pepper and other seasonings and serve warm optionally garnished.
A simple soup which is very filling. You can thin it down with more stock/water or even tomato juice as per taste.Peanut butter leaves a hint of taste in it and never overpowers. We get a mix of sweet potato and peanut flavour from the soup.Maybe you can add more peanut butter if you so prefer as per your taste.
The sweetpotato pieces added give something to chew or bite into. But its my opinion that you can actually puree the whole of the cooked sweet potato and add to the soup.The soup will be very thick though. Instead of peanut butter you can go with peanuts also though I am yet to try it.