Deliciously thick and comforting, this Sweet Potato, Leek & Rosemary Soup is perfect for a winter’s evening.
I’m a little bit obsessed with soup at the moment. It is so quick and easy as I have a soup maker that not only cooks the soup, but then blends it if you want a smooth soup. Fresh, tasty soup in 21 minutes – perfect.
Making soup is so much better for you than buying tins or fancy soups from the chilled aisle in the supermarket. I know you can get ‘light’ or low calorie soups in the shops, but when making them yourself is so easy, why buy them?
I was looking through Pinterest, as I seem to spend half my life doing, and saw a pin for Sweet Potato, Leek and Rosemary Soup. The suggestion of the flavour combination was all I needed and I set about to create my own recipe using those three ingredients.
I use my trusty soup maker, but you can always make this in a standard pot. Just cook until the vegetables are tender and then blend using whatever you have whether that is a blender or a stick blender.
The quantities below are for two portions simply because I can only fit between 2 – 3 portions worth in my soup maker. I think cooking smaller quantities can be a good idea because if you make a big batch you either sicken yourself by eating it for days on end or freeze it. Don’t get me wrong, I still make soup and freeze it because it’s great to have when you haven’t had time or the ingredients to make it from scratch. But by making smaller batches, I now have lots of different flavours of soup rather than loads of one flavour.
My boyfriend isn’t usually the biggest fan of soup. He likes it but he would never opt to have it instead of a sandwich for example for lunch. As this was my first time making this recipe, I asked him to try it and I have honestly never seen him so excited over a savoury dish I have made. He wanted to eat some there and then (even though he had just had his lunch); and was distraught when I said I was going to freeze it. Over the next day or two he ended up eating all of it so I didn’t get a look in! He really liked it when soup is thick and the sweetness of the sweet potato are what makes him like this soup so much.
350g sweet potato, peeled and cubed
2 leeks (approx 200g), sliced
1 tbsp fresh rosemary
300ml semi skimmed milk
500ml water
1 vegetable stock pot
½ tsp salt
¼ tsp pepper
- Chop up all of the vegetables and add to your soup maker/pan with the rest of the ingredients
- If using a soup maker, set to the smooth setting and leave the machine to do the work
- If using a pan, cook until the vegetables have softened and then blend using a stick blender or pour into a blender to blend until smooth (could I have said blend any more times!)
- If the soup is too thick for your liking, add a little bit more water until it is the thickness you like