This easy Sweet Potato Soup is blended in just a matter of minutes so that you can whip it up in a flash. So if you are in the mood for some cozy soup, but do not feel like spending hours slow-simmering some stew, make this! It is made special by serving with buttery cubes of avocado on top. Corn chips or tortilla strips on top too. I season it with my favorite spices and accents like chipotle and lime. And this healthy blend is loaded with vitamin A! Get this fan-fave recipe!..
Sweet Potato Soup. In a Flash.
This is an HHL fan-fave recipe, so I decided to update it with a few new photos for you guys. Recipe VIDEO too! Hope you guys love this easy, delicious soup as much as I do!
And of course, it all starts with a sticky-sweet baked sweet potato..
Reminds me of my Sweet Potato Burger recipe! Same flavors, different form...
Soup, Made in your Blender.
Oh I love soup this time of year. Just hand me a giant bowl of steamy soup with some toast on the side and I am a happy girl. And this sweet potato soup uses my favorite food .. sweet potatoes!
This soup kind of reminds me of THIS! It is like the soup version.
Change it Up. Pumpkin or Squash Too.
Not sweet potatoes? Craving pumpkin or winter squash? I actually have two recipe versions for you. One that includes a slow, oven-baked sweet potato as the base - as shown in my photos. Or you can sub in canned pumpkin OR butternut squash puree in place of the potato.
I loved this soup so much that I enjoyed the sweet potato version for lunch and whipped up a canned pumpkin version at dinnertime.
Broth. The first time I made this, I used Imagine Foods vegan No-Chicken Broth. It has a very savory veggie flavor that I love. But vegetable broth is perfect to substitute if needed. You can even use water, when in a pinch. I just add in a few additional spices like cumin and maybe even onion powder too, and of course salt - since broth is salted and water is not.
I sometimes add in non-dairy milk for added creaminess, and sometimes I just go with all broth or water. It depends on my mood for texture!
Another spin on this recipe is my Sweet Potato Cauliflower Soup. It has the same sort of flavors and is a great way to eat more cauliflower!
Sweet Potato Soup
Ingredients
- 1 sweet potato, medium
- 1 cup vegetable broth*
- ½ cup plain non-dairy milk, optional - more broth or water can be subbed
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
- 1 garlic clove
- 3 tablespoon lime juice
- ⅛ - ¼ teaspoon chipotle powder
- salt, to taste
Toppings:
- 1 avocado, diced
- handful or tortilla chips, crushed
- sprinkle of smoky paprika
- squeeze of lime juice***
- 2 tablespoon cilantro, finely chopped
Optional Add-ins:
- 1-3 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil, for added richness
Instructions
Bake Sweet Potato:
- Warm oven to 450 degrees. Pierce a few form holes in the sweet potato and bake for 40-60 minutes, or until sticky-sweet and tender. (For a quicker soup, you can peel, dice and boil the potato, or cook, skin on, in the microwave.)
- When potato is baked, cool for a few minutes for easy handling, then peel away skin.
Blending:
- Add to blender: sweet potato flesh, broth, optional non-dairy milk, garlic, maple, lime, chipotle powder. Blend from low to high until smooth. Salt to taste.
- To warm soup, turn your blender on the ‘soup’ setting. Serve directly from the blender --- OR To warm and remove air bubbles, pour soup into a soup pot and simmer on medium for 5-10 minutes until reduced and air bubbles removed.
- Pour soup into serving bowls.
- Top with diced avocado, chips, a squeeze of fresh lime juice, sprinkle of smoky paprika and chopped cilantro. Enjoy!
Equipment
- blender
- large soup pot
Video
Notes
nutrition estimate | per serving
Pumpkin or Butternut Squash Version: You can use the same recipe, subbing out the sweet potato. You may need less liquid to thin out this version of soup. You will need more salt since the pumpkin and squash are both very bland on their own.
Craving more vegan soup ideas? Browse the soups section in my visual recipe index.
Kristin Fust says
yum! i love easy recipes! 🙂
Natalie Ellis says
It looks like a sweet potato smoothie with the blender xD
Curiously, I really want to try any kinds of soup while I cannot eat anything except soup right now 🙈
Change In Seconds says
Looks delicious!
Kathy Patalsky says
Thank you Rhonda!
Giulia Lombardo says
Delicious recipe:D
Kathy Patalsky says
Thank you! Fave for sure.
Boopsie says
I loved this. easy and very delicious!
Robin Lilly says
So simple and yummy! I used lime juice and zest. Mashed and blended with my immersion blender in the pot. Great and easy soup! Thank you!
Guest says
I just made this for lunch with leftover mashed sweet potato and avocado from previous nights' dinners. I also blended in some canned pink salmon to give it some protein. I added the juice of half an orange to balance out the saltiness of the salmon. So delicious! This will definitely enter my regular soup rotation. Thanks! 🙂
FUCKdeletethisaccount says
I used coconut milk and chicken broth, you can actually eat it raw and it tastes fine.
Michelle Lucas says
I used hemp milk bec it's one of the few milks I can have and I used 1 1/4 cups veg broth...added salsa atop with the avocado and OH MY GOODNESS did my mouth do cartwheels!!! THANK YOU for this delicious recipe!!!!
Kat Johnson says
I made this last night, my additions were some sriracha (mixed in and on top), nutritional yeast (on top) & because my blender is a jerk about 1c-1.5C milk plus 1c veggie broth, but it was the MOST AMAZING SOUP EVER. This has definitely moved into regular rotation! ♥♥
CC says
Gah this looks so yummy! I'm one lucky cookie, because I have everything I need to make it!
Kathy Patalsky says
You certainly can but obviously it won't be vegan.
Becca says
can I use Organic Whole milk or non-processed cow milk instead of soy or almond?
rchelle2000 says
Yummm........ix nay on the soy milk....soy is not good for you....google it when you get a chance. I use Almond Breeze- Blue Diamond Almond milk...not as thick as Silk Almond....
Trinity Marie says
This was awesome! Thanks
CJ @ Morsels of Life says
another great recipe!
Janice Harmon says
I just made this with a leftover sweet potato from supper the other night. Ohhh this soup is epic!!! I am passing this recipe on to everyone I know.
Kathy Patalsky says
Or the photo of the burgers off to the side of my blog! 🙂
ShirleyKay Cathey says
Anne, if you haven't found the recipe for the Sweet Potato Veggie Burgers yet, click on the Word THIS above the picture of the burger where it reads: This soup kind of reminds me of THIS! It is like the soup version. After I clicked on it I was taken right to the recipe which I think looks yummy too. Hope this helps!!
Anne says
I would like to see the recipe for that other picture - the sweet potato patty in a bun. Looks so tempting! Thanks!
Anna says
Looks yummy! How do you think this would taste if I used cashew cream instead of soy/almond milk?
Kathy Patalsky says
Thanks Joanne!
Joanne Dale says
Just polished off a batch. Yum!!! Kathy, I'm so thankful to have stumbled on to your website. Such beautiful, tasty awesomeness. Can't wait until your book comes out. Happy 2013!
Janine O'Donnell says
I just made this the other night after realizing I had a lot of left over cooked acorn sqaush. Do you use a vitamix to blend? I noticed some bubbles in the soup and I get that too and I was wondering if anyone else experiences this? I am a newbie to the vitamix world.
jodye says
This soup looks amazing, and so simple too! I have an abundance of sweet potatoes and citrus right now, as well as a few too many avocados to consume before they start to go bad, so I think I'll be putting them all to use tonight!
Kathy Patalsky says
Great! Just be sure to season to taste since the pumpkin starts out quite bland. I had last night!
Kimberly A. White says
Thanks for the tip! I did end up seasoning to taste because it did start out pretty bland. Yummy though!
Warm Vanilla Sugar says
Absolutely delicious!
Setjay says
I'm saving it for later because i've still cooked for tonight - but have all the ingredients under hand (except chipotle powder, which doesn't exist in France). Thanks !
Caren Magill-Myers says
OMG, this soup is awesome and so easy!! I'm inspired. I'm making it today. I love the chickenless chicken broth. It's pricey, but the flavor is worth it.
Kimberly A. White says
This sounds delicious! I'm going to try it with the pumpkin this week but I would like to try with sweet potato as well.