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Quick & Easy Sweet Potato and Chilli Soup Recipe

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Sweet Potato and Chilli Soup Recipe

Did you know that this week is International Sweet Potato Week 2018? This week, food bloggers all over America and Europe will be celebrating the wonderful versatility of the humble sweet potato.

The sweet potato has its roots in Southern and Central America, where evidence dates back to their use for at least 8000 years. In North America, the sweet potato has featured quite heavily throughout its entire history, especially in the Southeast.

Here, I’ve created a rather delicious but incredibly simple sweet potato and chilli soup to celebrate International Sweet Potato Week.

Sweet Potato and Chilli Soup Recipe

The soup itself doesn’t have a lot of heat from chillies, as many chilli soups do. I’ve cooked the onion and garlic with a generous pinch of dried chilli flakes. Feel free to adjust the size of this pinch to your own tastes. The chilli heat from this soup comes from a swirled garnish of chilli-infused extra virgin olive oil all the way from Italy.

Regular readers to my blog will be familiar with the Pomora badge in my sidebar – it’s been there for a good few years now. Pomora is a small Italian olive oil company where, in exchange for ‘adopting’ an olive tree with a quarterly subscription, you receive twelve tins of olive oil throughout the year. My oil comes from Antonio’s olive groves in Campania, and I look forward to their quarterly deliveries of olive oil.

In late winter I receive a shipment of three 250 ml tins of olio nuovo, new oil. Bottled directly after harvest, olio nuovo is unfiltered, has a vibrant green colour, a distinct fresh flavour and a pizzicante finish. In the Spring, I receive a shipment of lemon, chilli and rosemary-infused flavoured oils. The lemon makes for a wonderful salad dressing, the rosemary makes wicked roast potatoes while the chilli oil, my favourite, gets used in all sorts of spicy dishes.

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In the meantime, here’s my sweet potato and chilli soup recipe. If you’re wanting to cook with sweet potato and my soup isn’t quite what you’re looking for, you might like Claire’s Crispy Sweet Potato-topped Fish Pie recipe, Kavey’s Sweet Potato Dauphinoise with Caramelised Red Onion Chutney, Rebecca’s Healthy Sweet Potato Pancakes, Katherine’s Easy Sweet Potato Gnocchi with a Creamy Spinach Sauce or Grace’s Whole Roast Sweet Potato Mash. Why not try Cathy’s Aubergine, Mushroom and Sweet Potato Curry, Jemma’s Lentil & Feta Ribbon Salad with Ras el Hanout Sweet Potatoes, Laura’s Oven-baked Chorizo with Sweet Potatoes and Chickpeas, Andrea’s Baked Veggie Sweet Potato Fritters, Bintu’s Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes, Choclette’s Cauliflower Rice and Jerk Sweet Potatoes in Coconut, Diana’s Creamy Roasted Sweet Potato and Carrot Soup or Helen’s Sticky Baked Sweet Potatoes & Aubergines with Soy, Maple, Garlic & Ginger.

Are you a fan of sweet potatoes like me? How do you cook with them? Let me know in the comments!

Sweet Potato and Chilli Soup Recipe

Quick & Easy Sweet Potato and Chilli Soup Recipe

A simple, quick and easy sweet potato and chilli soup ready in less than 30 minutes. Drizzle with a swirl of chilli-infused olive oil for an extra spicy kick.
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Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 323kcal
Author: Elizabeth

Ingredients

  • 15 grams butter
  • 1 large brown onion coarsely chopped
  • 3 garlic cloves crushed
  • 1 large pinch chilli flakes plus extra to garnish
  • 750 grams sweet potato peeled and coarsely chopped weight
  • 750 ml vegetable stock (I use a Knorr stock pot)
  • sea salt to taste
  • freshly ground black pepper to taste
  • 4 tbsp chilli infused olive oil to garnish
  • 2 tbsp fresh parsley to garnish

Instructions

  • Heat butter in a large soup pan and gently saute the onion, garlic and chilli flakes until soft, about eight minutes.
  • Add the sweet potato and vegetable stock and bring to a simmer. Simmer gently 15 minutes, until the potatoes are softened.
  • Puree until smooth, season to taste and divide between four soup bowls.
  • Garnish with extra chilli flakes, to taste, and a swirl of chilli-infused olive oil. Finish with a sprinkling of fresh parsley.

Nutrition

Calories: 323kcal | Carbohydrates: 41g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 17g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 11g | Cholesterol: 8mg | Sodium: 292mg | Potassium: 706mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 27250IU | Vitamin C: 10.7mg | Calcium: 70mg | Iron: 1.1mg
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Sweet Potato and Chilli Soup

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Comments

  10. Amy Jo McLellan says

    I’m not normally a soup fan but I do love sweet potato and the flavours do some nice 🙂

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  12. Jessica Barber says

    I love chilli oil so this soup sounds right up my street! Sweet potato goes so well with spicy chilli!

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  15. Julie Edwards says

    I think the soup and chili oil sounds really different to soups i have tried before. Would love to try it.

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  16. Michelle Stokes says

    The soup looks delicious and I must give it a try. I’ve never tried the chilli olive oil but it’s something to add to my list of ‘to try’ 🙂

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  19. Karen Hughes says

    I make soups every week. So easy to make and delicious. I will add this one to the list. It sounds lovely. Always like a bit of spice

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  22. joanne casey says

    I love sweet potato in soup so this is definitely my kind of soup. My hubby & I love anything with chilli in it but I haven’t actually tried chilli oil before…definitely on my list!

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  23. Charlotte Wilde says

    it looks really nice, i try and eat soup for lunch each day at work and this looks like one i would enjoy

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  27. Chris Hobbs says

    The olive oil and chilli looks lush. I eat tons of sweet potato so always looking for new and interesting recipes.

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  29. Simone Griffin says

    The soup sounds delicious and I think the chilli olive oil would be great in lots of recipes x

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  33. Victoria Prince says

    I think the soup sounds absolutely delicious 🙂 I love sweet potato! I’ve never used chilli olive oil but I really like the concept and it’s something I would definitely make good use of

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  34. jo liddement says

    This soup recipe looks fabulous and really love a spicy chilli flavour which goes so well with the sweet potato.

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  39. Mary H says

    I love sweet potato mash on puy lentil base for a veggie shephard’s pie. That soup looks pretty amazing to me. Sweet potatoes are packed with vitamin C which helps the absorbtion of iron, so I’m going to eat this with spinach leavs on hot buttered sourdough to help boost my low iron levels. Yum!

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  46. Sheila Reeves @cakereev says

    I love sweet potato soup, think the added warmth of the chilli oil would really compliment it’s flavours

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  49. Lesley Bambridge says

    As 2018 has been a year of renewing my health, I love the recipe. I only ever use olive oil but have never triend these delicious- sounding flavoured oils before

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  55. Carole Nott says

    Would love to try this recipe – looks and sounds delicious/ I always use olive oil in my cooking and could not live without it

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  56. Jennifermai says

    I love sweet potato soup! I’m never overly adventurous with the amount of chili that I add, but pop enough in to give it that extra bit of warmth!

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  60. Maxine G says

    Sounds a perfect warming soup for this time of year and the chilli oil should cut through the sweetness of the potato nicely, though I’d be tempted to add a tiny squeeze of lime juice too

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  62. Sheena Batey says

    I had some on a lovely bowl of soup at a posh cafe in London recently would like to try this recipe for myself

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  66. Susan B says

    Chilli used sparingly is fab. I enjoy making my own soup but have never tried adding chilli to it. Will give it a go. Thanks.

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  90. Sarah Morris says

    Sounds great, I am trying to introduce my son to more veggie choices and he loves spicy food so I am going to give this a go.

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  92. Char W says

    I love sweet potato soup. I have never thought of adding chilli olive oil to soup, but this does sound delicious. I love a spicy kick in my food

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  107. Andrew Petrie says

    I’ve never tried sweet potato in soup but the mix sounds good . As a fan of olive oil the chill can only be a knockout !

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  108. Katy Malkin says

    We just started buying chilli olive oil, it’s fantastic. We love to sautee tenderstem broccoli in it.

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