Sweet Potato & Tomato Soup with Crunchy Crushed Peanuts

Sweet Potato & Tomato Soup with Crunchy Crushed Peanuts

Sweet Potato & Tomato with dry-roasted peanuts, heavenly combination all together. If you love hot soups you will just love this version. You will get earthy flavors of sweet potato, tanginess of tomatoes. The soup is again spiced up with red chillies, coriander powder, onion and garlic. Sweet potatoes are healthier replacement of potatoes and are diabetic friendly. They are good for our health because of high nutrient value.

Sweet Potatoes as super-food:

1. High in Protein, fiber.
2. Excellent source of Vitamin A (235% of daily need)
3. Rich in Potassium, sodium, manganese, magnesium, calcium, iron.
4. Zero cholesterol & fat
5. Contains Riboflovin, Vitamin K
6. Stabilizes Blood Sugar
7. High in Anti-oxidants
8. Boosts Brain Function
9. Enhances Immunity (Vitamin C)
10. Promotes healthy eyesight (Vitamin A)
11. Helps in reducing weight. (High protein & fiber)

So lets start this delicious hot soup for this rainy days. The hotness (spicy) you can adjust as per your taste. I like more spicy food than sweet soups. So I have added red chilli powder, black pepper and chilli flakes. you can skip red chilli powder to the recipe if don't want it to be more spicy. Dry roast the peanuts and grind to coarse paste. This will give that crunchy bite in the soup.

This is an easy soup which takes less than 20 minutes to prepare.

Prepare this soup in 5 step process:

1. Clean, peel, chop and saute.
2. Add spices and cook.
3. Cool & grind to smooth puree.
4. Adjust consistency by adding water/stock and bringing it to a boil.
5. Garnish with crushed roasted peanuts and chilli flakes.

It won't take more than 15 minutes to prepare and serve.

Sweet Potato & Tomato Soup with Crunchy Crushed Peanuts

Ipsa Faujdar

This easy recipe is prepared from sauteed sweet potatoes and tomatoes.

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Prep Time 5 mins

Cook Time 10 mins

Total Time 20 mins

Course Soups

Cuisine Asian, Indian

Servings 2 Servings

Ingredients

  

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• 2 Tomatoes
• 200 gms Sweet potato peeled & chopped
• 2 tbsp Peanuts Roasted & crushed roughly
• 4 Garlic pods Chopped or minced finely
• 1 small Onion Chopped
• 1 tsp Coriander Powder
• 1/2 tsp Red Chilli Powder
• 1/4 tsp Black Pepper Powder
• 1/4 tsp Salt
• 1 tbsp Lemon Juice

Instructions

 

• Heat oil in a pan. add garlic and onion and saute till they are translucent.
• Add chopped tomatoes & sweet potatoes. Saute for 2 minutes.
  
• Add coriander powder and chilli powder. Mix well. Saute for a minute. Add 1 cup water and cook in low flame with closed lid.
  
• Remove from heat once sweet potatoes are cooked completely. Blend it to smooth paste (*Recipe notes)
• Heat the mixture in a pan. Add 1/2 cup water or as per desired consistency. Season with salt and black pepper. Add crushed peanuts to the soup and serve hot.
  

Notes

*If you are using regular blender for puree then cool it completely before blending. Else the lid will open in pressure of heat.

Keyword Easy Less than 30 minutes Recipe, Low-carb Recipe

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