Past few days, the Mother Nature seems to be very furious. A non-stop rain soaked almost deep down the earth followed by a small earthquake this Saturday shook us. Every year, Californian can at least experience/feel one earthquake. You have some goose bumps until it stops trembling! But, we are used to it, nowadays, it become part of the life adventure!
To compensate the weather condition, I cannot deep-fry every day; once in a while it is perfectly fine! Soup would be a nice treat to the soul. Ah, when it comes to healthy thing, I am the only person who comes forward to eat and probably finish the rest. The two men of the house think it is a dieting stuff! But who cares as long I prepare to have it, I really go wild to try a variety. I bought some sweets potatoes in order to make curry! But the natural sweet orange flesh will definitely not please my palate; I will tend to balance with spice, which will dishonor the veggie! The only dish I don’t spice up is my soup/salad; I tried it and look that flashy orange color! Did u say no after seeing it?
Sweet poatato is a sweet tuber, holding all the goodness like Vitamins, fiber, beta-carotene, etc… The most important thing, if you are someone who watches the calories, you should hold on tightly, it is low carb!
To balance the sweetness of sweet potato, I added some ginger and one green chili to kick up. If you have a sweet tooth, or have a kid who love sweets, try the soup without spice of course, or like mashed sweet potato/Baked sweet potato French fries, they will certainly praise you!
To compensate the weather condition, I cannot deep-fry every day; once in a while it is perfectly fine! Soup would be a nice treat to the soul. Ah, when it comes to healthy thing, I am the only person who comes forward to eat and probably finish the rest. The two men of the house think it is a dieting stuff! But who cares as long I prepare to have it, I really go wild to try a variety. I bought some sweets potatoes in order to make curry! But the natural sweet orange flesh will definitely not please my palate; I will tend to balance with spice, which will dishonor the veggie! The only dish I don’t spice up is my soup/salad; I tried it and look that flashy orange color! Did u say no after seeing it?
Sweet poatato is a sweet tuber, holding all the goodness like Vitamins, fiber, beta-carotene, etc… The most important thing, if you are someone who watches the calories, you should hold on tightly, it is low carb!
To balance the sweetness of sweet potato, I added some ginger and one green chili to kick up. If you have a sweet tooth, or have a kid who love sweets, try the soup without spice of course, or like mashed sweet potato/Baked sweet potato French fries, they will certainly praise you!
Ingredients:
Sweet potato: 2 num (medium size) –peeled and chopped into big size chunk
Leek: ½ cup chopped (optional but I love the leek in soup)
Ginger: 1 inch or 1 to 2 tsp chopped
Thai chili: 1 small (whole –if you don’t want spicy –you can fish it after it is cooked)
Vegetable broth or plain water: 2 cups or more
Method:
Throw all the ingredients in pressure cooker. Keep the stove in high flame leave 4 whistles. Once the pressure is released completely, open the lid, take out the chili or leave it your wish! Make a puree with the hand blender and season with salt, adjust with water if it is thick.
Serve hot in bowl with dollop of sour cream/Greek yogurt or cream (optional)! Garnish with any herb you have around, cilantro will be fine!
Voila, you have an healthy bowl of soup without sweating much in the kitchen!
Don’t wait Thanksgiving to give a try the sweet potato; it is available year around in the market and pretty cheap too! If you love sweet and spicy, the soup is for you!
The Orange color is reaching Aparna – who is hosting FIC-orange theme, a lovely colorful event created by Sunshinemom.
The healthy soup is reaching SWC-soup hosted by Neha , another event created by this wonderful blogger LG
My Sivarathri Greetings to my readers!
Comments
What a wonderful colour it is? Like to have a sip of this soup. Thanks for sharing.
I have never experienced Earth quakes, can't imagine and scary too.
Yeah, I tend to fry more in Winter than in Summer. It just feels good to eat fried food in cold weather! :D
Tasty soup,the ginger is a nice spicy complement with the sweetness of Potatoes :)
BTW...It rains in Seattle a lot but not heavily, I see it rains heavily in California. It was nice to see the heavy rain when we were there last week.
I never experienced EQ, n don't know how come u r used to it..its scary..
You post this recipe in perfect time. I have only sweet potato and ginger stock in my fridge.
looks sooooo perfect.
Thanks Cham, for sending it in to FIC orange.
Ginger and sweet potato are such a nice combo. Love the color of soup. So bright and refreshing.
Great click.
Earthquake? that sounds scary.. I've heard a lot about california earthquakes.. Hope you're fine and take care Cham!
That was nice innovative thinking...and yes, i can imagine the taste..I would have loved it..i will try, too !