In collaboration with Pomora.
Did you know that this week is International Sweet Potato Week 2018? This week, food bloggers all over America and Europe will be celebrating the wonderful versatility of the humble sweet potato.
The sweet potato has its roots in Southern and Central America, where evidence dates back to their use for at least 8000 years. In North America, the sweet potato has featured quite heavily throughout its entire history, especially in the Southeast.
Here, I’ve created a rather delicious but incredibly simple sweet potato and chilli soup to celebrate International Sweet Potato Week.
The soup itself doesn’t have a lot of heat from chillies, as many chilli soups do. I’ve cooked the onion and garlic with a generous pinch of dried chilli flakes. Feel free to adjust the size of this pinch to your own tastes. The chilli heat from this soup comes from a swirled garnish of chilli-infused extra virgin olive oil all the way from Italy.
Regular readers to my blog will be familiar with the Pomora badge in my sidebar – it’s been there for a good few years now. Pomora is a small Italian olive oil company where, in exchange for ‘adopting’ an olive tree with a quarterly subscription, you receive twelve tins of olive oil throughout the year. My oil comes from Antonio’s olive groves in Campania, and I look forward to their quarterly deliveries of olive oil.
In late winter I receive a shipment of three 250 ml tins of olio nuovo, new oil. Bottled directly after harvest, olio nuovo is unfiltered, has a vibrant green colour, a distinct fresh flavour and a pizzicante finish. In the Spring, I receive a shipment of lemon, chilli and rosemary-infused flavoured oils. The lemon makes for a wonderful salad dressing, the rosemary makes wicked roast potatoes while the chilli oil, my favourite, gets used in all sorts of spicy dishes.
In late summer, a shipment of extra virgin olive oil is delivered. The complex flavours of this oil intertwine, marrying with a healthy finishing kick to produce a great base for vinaigrettes, focaccia or simply as a dip. In the autumn, three more infused oils arrive – basil, garlic and white truffle.
Adoption costs only £29 per quarter, but if you don’t feel you’re ready for a full adoption of an olive tree, you can foster one for a fixed term. Click here to find out more!
In the meantime, here’s my sweet potato and chilli soup recipe. If you’re wanting to cook with sweet potato and my soup isn’t quite what you’re looking for, you might like Claire’s Crispy Sweet Potato-topped Fish Pie recipe, Kavey’s Sweet Potato Dauphinoise with Caramelised Red Onion Chutney, Rebecca’s Healthy Sweet Potato Pancakes, Katherine’s Easy Sweet Potato Gnocchi with a Creamy Spinach Sauce or Grace’s Whole Roast Sweet Potato Mash. Why not try Cathy’s Aubergine, Mushroom and Sweet Potato Curry, Jemma’s Lentil & Feta Ribbon Salad with Ras el Hanout Sweet Potatoes, Laura’s Oven-baked Chorizo with Sweet Potatoes and Chickpeas, Andrea’s Baked Veggie Sweet Potato Fritters, Bintu’s Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes, Choclette’s Cauliflower Rice and Jerk Sweet Potatoes in Coconut, Diana’s Creamy Roasted Sweet Potato and Carrot Soup or Helen’s Sticky Baked Sweet Potatoes & Aubergines with Soy, Maple, Garlic & Ginger.
Are you a fan of sweet potatoes like me? How do you cook with them? Let me know in the comments!
Quick & Easy Sweet Potato and Chilli Soup Recipe
Ingredients
- 15 grams butter
- 1 large brown onion coarsely chopped
- 3 garlic cloves crushed
- 1 large pinch chilli flakes plus extra to garnish
- 750 grams sweet potato peeled and coarsely chopped weight
- 750 ml vegetable stock (I use a Knorr stock pot)
- Shetland sea salt to taste
- freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 4 tbsp chilli infused olive oil to garnish
- 2 tbsp fresh parsley to garnish
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Instructions
- Heat butter in a large soup pan and gently saute the onion, garlic and chilli flakes until soft, about eight minutes.
- Add the sweet potato and vegetable stock and bring to a simmer. Simmer gently 15 minutes, until the potatoes are softened.
- Puree until smooth, season to taste and divide between four soup bowls.
- Garnish with extra chilli flakes, to taste, and a swirl of chilli-infused olive oil. Finish with a sprinkling of fresh parsley.
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Currently craving soup. I am going to give this a trial. Thanks for sharing!
Your soup looks so smooth and clear. Beautiful and delicious! I love the chilli kick…… I will be holding this recipe for when the colder weather returns x
Delicious and Nutritious!
Sounds delicious…
This looks and sounds delicious! Thanks for the competition.
This soup looks lovely. I love different flavoured oils so would enjoy the chilli oil.
They both sound delicious. I would really like to try them out xx
I love chilli oil, the soup sounds good.
looks so delicious and healthy, just look at the colour! wow x
I’m not normally a soup fan but I do love sweet potato and the flavours do some nice 🙂
I love sweet potato soup. Love the addtiion of the chilli oil, I bet it really lifts the taste
I love chilli oil so this soup sounds right up my street! Sweet potato goes so well with spicy chilli!
This soup looks really nice I love chilli in my food and add it all the time
The soup is very easy to make and the chilli oil is so easy to use as its already infused.
I think the soup and chili oil sounds really different to soups i have tried before. Would love to try it.
The soup looks delicious and I must give it a try. I’ve never tried the chilli olive oil but it’s something to add to my list of ‘to try’ 🙂
The soup sounds delicious!
Delicious recipe. I love baked potatoes topped with charisma chick peas and feta cheese
I make soups every week. So easy to make and delicious. I will add this one to the list. It sounds lovely. Always like a bit of spice
The soup sounds wonderful and I’m already a fan of the oil.
I think this sounds delicious and I can’t wait to try it
I love sweet potato in soup so this is definitely my kind of soup. My hubby & I love anything with chilli in it but I haven’t actually tried chilli oil before…definitely on my list!
it looks really nice, i try and eat soup for lunch each day at work and this looks like one i would enjoy
It looks and sounds really tasty x
The soup sounds awesome, I’m always on the lookout for new recipes to try.
Sounds amazing. I have used chilli oil before it’s great!
The olive oil and chilli looks lush. I eat tons of sweet potato so always looking for new and interesting recipes.
Good enough to eat!
The soup sounds delicious and I think the chilli olive oil would be great in lots of recipes x
I think the soup looks tempting and delicious. Would love to try it
I think the soup looks tempting and delicious. Love to try it
I’m not a lover of soup, would have it in a restaurant at a push but love the chilli oil, a little over jacket potato would liven things up !!
I think the soup sounds absolutely delicious 🙂 I love sweet potato! I’ve never used chilli olive oil but I really like the concept and it’s something I would definitely make good use of
This soup recipe looks fabulous and really love a spicy chilli flavour which goes so well with the sweet potato.
looking forward to trying it. tasty!!.
I can’t wait to try this fabulous recipe
Love sweet potatoes – the recipes loos great. Would love to try the chilli oil
i would make this, nice and easy, chilli oil is a great idea.
I love sweet potato mash on puy lentil base for a veggie shephard’s pie. That soup looks pretty amazing to me. Sweet potatoes are packed with vitamin C which helps the absorbtion of iron, so I’m going to eat this with spinach leavs on hot buttered sourdough to help boost my low iron levels. Yum!
I think it looks delcious!
The recipe is fabulous. I am going to have to try it.
The chilli flavoured one sounds amazing! Would love to try it.
This sounds delicious. Lovely and light for spring, but still comforting.
Looks so tasty, will definitely give it a try
Sounds tasty
I love sweet potato soup, think the added warmth of the chilli oil would really compliment it’s flavours
Sounds amazing, can’t wait to try
i think it sounds delicious x
As 2018 has been a year of renewing my health, I love the recipe. I only ever use olive oil but have never triend these delicious- sounding flavoured oils before
It looks lovely and I bet it’s really tasty too!
sounds like the perfect combination..and I do love chilli oil
Like to perk up homemade soups with chilli sauce so would love to try this x
Soup and oil sounds perfect to me.
You can’t go wrong with sweet potato soup. Chilli olive oil? Inspired! 🙂
Would love to try this recipe – looks and sounds delicious/ I always use olive oil in my cooking and could not live without it
I love sweet potato soup! I’m never overly adventurous with the amount of chili that I add, but pop enough in to give it that extra bit of warmth!
i love making my own soup, it sounds yummy! id love to try it with the oil!
I love soup and this sounds just up my street because I like it with a bit of kick in it
I think the soup looks delicious
Sounds a perfect warming soup for this time of year and the chilli oil should cut through the sweetness of the potato nicely, though I’d be tempted to add a tiny squeeze of lime juice too
My husband will love this, I am going to have to give it a go and see how I get on 🙂
I had some on a lovely bowl of soup at a posh cafe in London recently would like to try this recipe for myself
Soup and oil sound gorgeous
The soup sounds delicious and the chilli oil sounds great for adding to recipes
Soup sounds toally yummy and the oil fabulous
Chilli used sparingly is fab. I enjoy making my own soup but have never tried adding chilli to it. Will give it a go. Thanks.
Sounds wonderful, as I love my hot and spicy foods!
am always unsure about sweet potatoes but this recipe may encourage me to give them a go!
This soup looks yummy
Good looking soup, and nice use of the chill olive oil. I bet that smelled wonderful.
Great combination of flavours. The chilli will give the soup a bit of a kick
This soup looks delicious – will definatg give it a go
Sounds delicious, would make a lovely lunch
yummy yummy
soups and chilli my two favourite things in life !
It looks so delicious, healthy & filling!
Looks so hearty and delicious! I’m definitely gonna make this soon!
that sounds like something i would make it looks so yummy
It sounds and looks very tasty, will have a go at recreating it soon 😉
I think it sounds lovely, really good for a cold day!
delicious sounding healthy soup
Yum, id defo prefer this hot!
Sounds and looks delicious – one of my favourite soup flavours!
It looks yummy, esp while there is snow outside!
The soup sounds delicious, some of my favourite flavours. The chilli oil sounds very good.
sounds lush and healthy x
Sounds delicious.
It sounds delicious
The soup looks delish, I really like the colour of it
Sounds great, I am trying to introduce my son to more veggie choices and he loves spicy food so I am going to give this a go.
sounds great
I love sweet potato soup. I have never thought of adding chilli olive oil to soup, but this does sound delicious. I love a spicy kick in my food
They both look great I love to use chilli oil to stir fry
I think this soup sounds lovely and the olive oil looks great too.
They are my homely favourites, gorgeous flavours many thanks
Cant beat a DELICIOUS warming recipe
Delicious
It sounds delicious
We had sweet potato soup for supper last night. Was delicious. This looks rather special with the chilli oil. Love chilli oil.
Soup looks delicious, I love sweet potatoes and the combination of root vegetables and spices in a soup.
I will def try this recipe
You Can’t go wrong with a sweet potato soup. I love the addition of chili that you’ve added, yum!
I have never tried chilli olive oil before, but this sounds lovely
What a gorgeous recipe!
Looks perfect for this freezing weather we are having.
I would love to win this and make the sweet potato and chilli soup, sounds absolutely delicious
Sounds absolutely delicious
I’ve never tried sweet potato in soup but the mix sounds good . As a fan of olive oil the chill can only be a knockout !
We just started buying chilli olive oil, it’s fantastic. We love to sautee tenderstem broccoli in it.