Meat-Free Monday Challenge: Vegan Indian-Spiced Soup Recipe

(VEGAN RECIPE) For week two of our Meat-Free Mondays Challenge, enjoy a wonderful fall meal: Savory Sweet Potato Indian-Spiced Soup. The sweet potatoes are packed with fiber, vitamin C, and potassium — your taste buds, and the rest of your body, will thank you. Happy eating! — Global Animal

The Hungry Herbivore

Savory Sweet Potato Indian-spiced Soup

2 or 1 very large sweet potato
1 TBS ghee or coconut oil
red chili peppers (to taste– I like it hot), finely diced OR 1 jalapeno finely diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 TBS minced ginger
1/2 tsp whole cumin
1 tsp mustard seeds
1/2 tsp turmeric
1 tsp ground coriander
Himalayan crystal salt, to taste
fresh ground black pepper, to taste
lemon juice, 1/2 lemon
water

Bake the sweet potatoes at 350 degrees until soft. Heat ghee or oil and add chilies, ginger & garlic. After a minute, add the cumin and mustard seeds. When the mustard seeds begin to pop (I love this!), add the cooked potato and water. Start with about 1 1/2 cups of water and add as needed to get your desired consistency. At this point, I blended everything up with my immersion blender. If you don’t have one, you could just mash everything with a fork and have a not as creamy version. Of course, you could use a blender or food processor but that makes this recipe not nearly as convenient and simple. I’ve said this before but I’ll say it again, I love my KitchenAid immersion blender! Very convenient and easy to clean. I use it for soups, sauces and smoothies sometimes several times a day.

Back to the soup. After you have mashed or blended, add the remaining spices and cook for another 5 minutes. After you turn off the heat, add the lemon juice. Taste, if it’s not quite right, add spices to your liking. This soup would be great garnished with cilantro and/or yogurt. Good soup for a cold fall day! Enjoy!

More Hungry Herbivore: http://thehungryherbivore.blogspot.com/2010/11/savory-sweet-potato-indian-spiced-soup.html

Learn more about the Meat Free Monday Challenge, and try out the vegan burger recipe from last week:

Meat Free Monday Challenge

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