Roasted Sweet Potato & Garlic Soup

I'mPat's Note:

This recipe is from a free recipe book from Philadelphia Cheese upon the purchase of 3 products. I love soups and I love sweet potato (very diabetic friendly) so looking forward to winter to trying this.

• Total Time: 45 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 6

• 1 kg sweet potato (peeled and chopped)
• 1 onion (roughly chopped)
• 1 head garlic (broken into cloves and peeled)
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 6 cups chicken stock
• 250 g cream cheese (light cubed)
• ¼ teaspoon salt (or to taste)
• ¼ teaspoon pepper (or to taste)
• 6 teaspoons parsley (for garnish)
• 6 slices ciabatta (or other crusty bread to serve)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 200°C.
2. Toss the sweet potato, onion and garlic in oil.
3. Place on a lined oven tray and bake in oven to bake for 20 - 25 minutes or until tender.
4. Place the roasted vegetables in a large saucepan with stock and bring to the boil and then remove from the heat and allow to cool slightly and then blend with a stick blender in the pot or in batches in a food processor and return to the pot.
5. Whisk in the cream cheese into the soup until smooth and simmer for a further 5 minutes until well heated.
6. Season to taste and serve in bowls and garnish with parsley and serve with crusty bread.

Reviews

[cookthenwashup]

Easy Easy Easy.....my kind of recipe. A delicious soup. If you are cooking for others and you are unsure of how much they like garlic....go easy. You can always add more later.
It was a success in our house....though I did feel a little guilty adding so much cream cheese.

[katew]

Luscious, really enriched by the cream cheese and so easy to do !! I served it with grated cheese on top. This was made for Everyday is a Holiday.

[Starrynews]

Nice, easy to prepare soup! The roasting adds a really nice dimension. I omitted the salt (personal preference). Thanks for sharing!