Quick and Easy Sweet Potato Soup
Serves: 4
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Sweet potatoes are cooked in chicken broth, pureed, and then seasoned with with nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon and cayenne, and made even creamier by adding half-and-half.
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Ingredients:
| 3 | large sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into small pieces |
| 6 cups | chicken broth |
| 1 tablespoon | orange juice concentrate |
| 1/2 cup | half and half |
| 3/4 teaspoon | ground nutmeg |
| 1/2 teaspoon | freshly grated ginger |
| 1/2 teaspoon | ground cinnamon |
| 1/4 teaspoon | cayenne pepper (optional) |
| salt and ground black pepper to taste | |
| 1/4 cup | chopped pecans |
Directions:
Put sweet potatoes into a large pot. Pour chicken broth over the sweet potatoes; bring to a boil, stir orange juice concentrate into the boiling broth, and cook until the potatoes are tender, about 25 minutes.
Puree the sweet potatoes with the broth using an immersion blender until smooth.
Stir half-and-half, nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon, and cayenne pepper into the pureed sweet potatoes; season with salt and pepper.
Heat a skillet over medium-high heat. Toast pecans in the hot skillet until fragrant.
Ladle soup into bowls; garnish with toasted pecans.
Source: allrecipes.com
