Name: Creamy sweet potato soup with ginger and croutons
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 4 Sweet potatoes; 1 Onion; 2 Carrots; 100 ml Heavy whipping cream; 2 Garlic cloves; to taste Ginger; 2 tbsp Butter; 1 l Water; to taste Salt and pepper; to taste Sunflower seeds; 2 slices Bread (for croutons)

Instructions

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Peel the sweet potatoes and carrots and cut them into small cubes. Peel and finely chop the onion and garlic.
Cut the bread, even stale bread, into cubes and toast in a dry skillet. Briefly toast the sunflower seeds in the same way.
Melt the butter in a pot and sauté the onion and garlic.
Add the carrots and sweet potatoes and sauté briefly.
Stir in the ginger, pour in the hot water, and cook for about 10 minutes.
Blend the soup with an immersion blender and pour in the heavy whipping cream. Season with salt and ground black pepper, stir, and simmer briefly.

Tip: Peel the ginger with the edge of a spoon and finely grate it so there are no tough fibers in the finished soup.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 411 kcal
Protein: 7.2 g
Carbohydrates: 59 g
of which sugars: 13 g
Fat: 17 g
of which saturates: 9.6 g
Fiber: 9.1 g
Salt: 1.2 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Krémová batátová polievka so zázvorom a krutónmi