New Favorite Soup Recipe

[superchargedRD]

It's a rainy day here in NC making it a perfect day for this soup. I found it in another one of my favorite cooking magazines and modified it to my liking. It's awesome and very healthy. Enjoy!

Sweet Potato, Chipotle and Apple Soup
Prep time: 35 min
Total time with cooking: 1 hr, 10 min

2 tsp vegetable oil
½ medium white onion chopped
2 garlic cloves, smashed
1 teaspoon finely grated fresh ginger
2 gala apples- peeled, seeded and chopped
1 celery rib, thinly sliced crosswise
1.75# sweet potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced
1 quart chicken stock or low sodium broth
3 cups water
1 small canned chipotle in adobo sauce, seeded and minced
salt and freshly ground white pepper

1. In medium soup pot, heat oil. Add onion, garlic and ginger cooking over low heat, stirring until softened (about 7 min). Add the apples and celery for 5 more minutes. Add the sweet potatoes and cook 5 min. Add chicken stock and water, bring to boil. Cover partially and simmer over low heat until the fruit and vegetables are very tender, about 45 minutes. Stir in the chipotle.
2. Working in batches, puree the soup in a blender until smooth. Season with salt and white pepper to taste and return to pot to heat.

Notes:
· This soup stores very well and can be refrigerated for up to a week.
· Rather than grating ginger, I peel and use my garlic press
· I serve with crushed pita or crackers on top with some cheese
· I use more than one chipotle cause I like it spicy!

[ljt2r]

Thanks for posting, this looks good. We love sweet potato soups. Which cooking mag did you get it from?

Laura

[superchargedRD]

I got it from Food and Wine. They have you deep frying some tortilla strips and then tossing with sugar and cinnamon for a topping at the end. This didn't appeal to me ;) .

[ljt2r]

ooh, me either I don't think. Ugh. Salt, yes, IMHO tortilla chips are almost never bad ;) but sugar and cinnamon? Funky.... :)

[storispa]

I can't wait to try the soup. Can you post the nutritional information?

[mundy]

This sounds great! Looks like the flavor of the sweet potato and apple will shine through here. Guess I'm getting a bit weary of recipes that have so many herbs and spices that the main ingredients are there more for filler than flavor!

I put this into Master cook and here's what I got for four servings:

Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 175 Calories; 3g Fat (13.3% calories from fat); 13g Protein; 27g Carbohydrate; 4g Dietary Fiber; trace Cholesterol; 562mg Sodium. Exchanges: 1 Grain(Starch); 1 1/2 Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable; 1/2 Fruit; 1/2 Fat.

I created nutritional links for all ingredients so there were no 'unknown items'. I did choose low sodium chicken broth as the link for the chicken stock as that's what I usually use.

Think this will be tonight's dinner! Thanks for posting.

[superchargedRD]

Thank you for doing the nutritional analysis for this recipe! However I think it makes way more than 4 servings.....I would say 6-8 servings. I usually have about 1.25 cups and then top with 2% velveeta type cheese....DELISH!