Roasted Sweet Potato & Garlic Soup

Submitted by I'mPat

"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."

 

• Ready In: 45mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 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)
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt (or to taste)
• 1⁄4 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

[duonyte]

Really quite good and fast to make. I had a little kitchen disaster but it still worked out. I made only half the recipe, and put parchment paper in my baking tray because I could not find the foil. But I did not trim it quite enough - not a problem in the oven but a problem in the countertop - yes, putting out flames and hoping the smoke alarm does not go off I had to rinse the veggies but I think I had a little extra "fiber" in the soup. Anyway, I buzzed both before and after adding the cream cheese, made it incorporate better. Half the recipe was two generous servings for us.

 

[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. <br/>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!

 

[Sweet PQ?]

I think this could be an outstanding soup worthy of 5 stars. Unfortunately, for me, I used a JUMBO head of garlic! Now, I am really a garlic lover, but I should not have done that! I am definitely going to re-make this again. I roasted the veg approximately 50 min @ 400*. Next time, I will roast the garlic separately (just a personal preference so I can monitior the strength of my garlic), The texture and taste was very pleasing. I served it with ciabatta croutons in the bottom of my soup bowl-very good. Any taste descrepancies were my fault. This soup is worth trying! Made for Everyday is a Holiday Tag, Nov '09.