Sweet Potato Soup

This is the one soup recipe I make over and over again. (Dont tell but I'm not the biggest fan of soup.... I cant give you a sensible reason why), but sometimes a beautiful homemade soup ticks all the boxes, comfort, nourishment, seasonal, homely.

 

This soup is made with a homemade bone broth, rich and gelatinous as you can see from the photo below and incredibly healing for the gut. If you want to read more about bone broth head over to the Western Price Foundation website and read all about the benefits of this functional food.

 

Fresh Turmeric; finally this beautiful root spice is readily available in UK supermarkets but if you cannot find it as the fresh root, simply substitute with ground turmeric. Fresh turmeric has a more subtle and earthy note than its dried cousin and it packs a serious nutritional punch it is a member of the ginger family, and the vibrant yellow pigment, curcumin, has significant anti-inflammatory properties for this recipe I have grated fresh turmeric into a soup with garlic, ginger, sweet potato, carrots and a slow cooked chicken broth

Ingredients

1 large onion

2 cloves of garlic

1 fresh turmeric root – a good

thumb sized piece (or 2 tsp. ground)

1 good thumb sized piece of fresh ginger

4 carrots

2 sweet potatoes

500 ml home-made chicken stock/bone broth

1 tbsp. of pomegranate molasses 1 large pinch of sumach

Method

Peel and chop the onion, garlic, ginger and fresh grated turmeric. Add to a large saucepan with a good tablespoon of coconut oil and sweat over a low heat for approx 10 minutes with the lid on this will make the onion and spices translucent, sweet and richly aromatic the kitchen will smell amazing already add the peeled chopped carrots and sweet potatoes, the stock and a tbsp of pomegranate molasses for a hit of sweet smoky ahhhhh add a pinch of sumach if you have it, for a Middle Eastern depth of flavour simmer for 40 mins until the veggies are soft and then blend in a powerful blender until creamy smooth serve with a sprinkling of chopped coriander.

gently brown the onions and sweet potato
beautiful gelatinous home made bone broth

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