Sweet Potato Soup
- ½ kilo - Sweet potato (around 5 pieces)
- 1 medium sized onion
- 6 cloves of garlic
- 1 Tbsp - Chilly flakes or as per your liking
- 2 Tbsp - Olive oil
- Handful of basil leaves ( or use a Tbsp of dried basil)
- Salt to taste
- For garnishing - 1 Tbsp Olive oil, chilly flakes, garlic slices, julienned onions, fresh cream and basil leaves.
- Pressure cook the cleaned sweet potatoes along with the skin till it is cooked well.
- Once the cooker cooled take the potatoes out and take out the peel and cut them into pieces.
- In a heavy bottom pan, heat oil. Add crushed garlic to this and let it turn light brown.
- Add onions and sauté it till it starts to turn brown.
- Add chilly flakes and sweet potato chunks and sauté it on high flame till the potatoes start to crisp up.
- Add salt and basil leaves and sauté for another minute on high flame.
- Cool the mixture down and then blend it till smooth in a blender, adding as much water as required.
- Pour the soup back into the pan and warm it up.
- To garnish, heat a Tbsp of oil in a small tempering pan. Add a pinch of chilly flakes and few garlic slices and onion. Sauté till they turn brown.
- Pour the soup into individual bowls, top it up with fresh cream and a spoon of the above tempering and some basil leaves.
- Serve it with some toasted bread slices.
Recipe by MADaboutkitchen at https://madaboutkitchen.in/sweet-potato-soup/
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