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Why You’ll Love My Recipe
Easy to make on the stove or in a slow cooker, this flavourful soup is packed with nutrition and colour! It’s the perfect meal to brighten up your day and warm up your belly on a cold day.
For more tasty and filling soup recipes, why not make this Potato Bacon Soup? Or try this recipe for Spicy Lentil Soup instead? Serve your soup with some Classic Homemade Garlic Bread or Simple Cheddar & Chive Biscuits.
Karlynn’s Recipe Notes
- Skill Level: This is a very easy recipe.
- Total Time: Making this soup will take approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes.
- Variations: As with all recipes that require spices, you can play with the exact amounts that you use. For example, if curry isn’t your favourite, use a bit less. Try adding a sprinkle of turmeric for the rich colour and the anti-inflammatory benefits. Try different versions of garam masala or make your own blend. Add some powdered ginger or use some garlic and ginger paste to liven things up.
- Tools Needed: For this recipe, you’ll need a large pot or a slow cooker, a large pan, a cutting board and a sharp knife. If you would like a smoother soup, you may want an immersion blender or your regular blender.
What You’ll Need For Ingredients
Spices: Since this is a curried soup, we obviously need a bit of curry powder, but that’s only the beginning. You’re going to load this soup up with earthy, warm spices. Don’t be scared to try something new and experiment with the exact amounts.
Sweet Potatoes: Rich and creamy sweet potatoes give this soup it’s bright orange colour. They’re also incredibly good for you, packed full of fiber and other nutrients that will leave you feeling satisfied.
Chicken: You can, of course, skip the chicken in this recipe but it does add a lot of protein. You can use pretty much any cooked chicken for this. Try leftover cooked chicken breast or the meat from a rotisserie chicken.
Broth: While this recipe calls for vegetable broth, a chicken broth would also work very well. Why not take it up a notch and make your own bone broth to add even more nutrition to this delicious soup?
How To Make Curried Sweet Potato Soup with Chicken
This is a brief overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.
- Pour your broth into a pot or slow cooker. Set aside.
- In a large skillet over medium-high heat, melt your butter. When the butter starts to sizzle, add the garlic and onions. Saute until tender.
- Add spices, stir and cook for another minute or two.
- Add the pan contents to the pot of broth. Deglaze the pan with a couple tablespoons of the broth, swirling the liquid around to collect all the bits left in the pan, and pour that into the pot too.
- Add the remaining ingredients to the pot. Cook until the potatoes are tender.
- Serve hot, chunky or pureed.
Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for Making Curried Sweet Potato Soup with Chicken
For Smooth Soup: This soup will work as a nice chunky stew, or as a smoother puree. Use an immersion blender to be selective about what you’re pureeing, or pour the whole batch into a blender to make it silky. You can even scoop out just part of the cooked vegetables and puree them separately, and then add them back in so that your soup still has some chunks.
Spice It Up: If you are new to the flavours in this recipe, go ahead and take it slow. But if you are a well-seasoned (pun intended) cook who loves to explore new spices, go take a walk down the international food aisles in your grocery store. Check out the Indian spices specifically, and note the variety of garam masala mixes available. You may even find that you could make your very own garam masala with spices you already have at home and one or two additions from the spice aisle. Have fun!
Storage Instructions
Once its fully cooled, refrigerate this soup in a sealed container for 3-4 days.
You can also freeze it for 4-5 months, either all together in one freezer safe container, or in smaller containers that you can take out for individual servings whenever you’re craving hot soup. Defrost and reheat in the microwave or put back into a pot to heat it up on the stove.
More Delicious Soup Recipes
Looking for more tasty Soup recipes?
Try this hearty Brunswick Stew or a Seafood Chowder.
Make a batch of the Best Seafood Stock.
Or give this Pumpkin Lentil Soup a try.
There it is, folks. An easy and yummy soup full of nutrition and delicious flavours. Try it and let me know what you think.
Happy Cooking!
Karlynn
Curried Sweet Potato Soup with Chicken
Ingredients
- 2.5 cups chicken (diced), (the equivalent of 3 diced chicken breasts)
- 6 cups vegetable broth
- 1 dash nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon curry
- 1 teaspoon garam masala
- 2 scallions, ( diced)
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1.5 tablespoons minced garlic
- 3 cups sweet potatoes, peeled & diced
- 3 red potatoes, peeled & diced
Instructions
- You can choose to make this in a crockpot or on the stove top, pick your poison. In either, start out by adding in your vegetable broth. I prefer using a powdered type, Vegeta is pretty amazing and one of my favorite for flavor. Make sure it’s good and strong-tasting!
- In a skillet, heat your butter on medium heat and when it’s sizzling, add in the garlic and onions.
- Saute them until the scallions are tender then add in your spices.
- Saute another minute or two, then add to the pot. Now, the reason I always make my broth first is so that you can deglaze the pan of its butter and spices.
- Take a few tablespoons of the broth and clean out that pan, swirling it around to get all the spices out, then add it to the pot.
- Add in the rest of the ingredients – potatoes and chicken- and cook until the potatoes are tender.
- Serve (see notes for other options as to how to finish the soup)
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Hershel Sturgill says
Hi Karlynn!
Spices Exporters says
Its so Easy and yummy!
Rob Kate Wigmore says
Mmm, sounds yummy!