This Healthy Sweet Potato Soup is naturally sweetened, loaded with vegetables, and can be made in 30 minutes to be served as a main meal or a Thanksgiving starter! Serve this vegetarian soup as is or add in some croutons, a dollop of sour cream, or a side serving of Cheesy Cornbread to soak up all that sweet potato soupy goodness!
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Our delicious sweet potato soup recipe is so mouthwatering and creamy that it's a regular on my meal plan during the cold weather months.
This flavorful soup with its luxurious texture is reminiscent of pumpkin soup so it's perfect as a Thanksgiving starter and great for other winter holidays.
❤️ Why You'll Love This Recipe
- It’s a veggie-packed soup that’s great if you're looking for ways to increase your daily vegetable intake or to get the kids to eat their veggies without a fuss.
- You can make this sweet potato soup in bulk to store in the freezer for those busy holidays ahead, then simply reheat for a nutritious and easy family meal.
🧂 Ingredients
This meal will take you less than 30 minutes to make and uses simple ingredients you probably already have on hand.
- Butter
- Onion
- Carrot
- Celery stalks
- Fresh garlic
- Chicken stock or vegetable stock
- Sweet potatoes
- Heavy cream (optional)
- Salt and Pepper to taste
🔪Instructions
This is meant to be a brief overview of our quick sweet potato soup recipe. For step-by-step instructions and a full printable recipe card with ingredients, please scroll down to the teal box below or Jump to Recipe.
- Melt butter in a medium sauce pan over medium-high heat.
- Add onion, carrot, and celery sauté until onion is translucent.
- Next, add the garlic and cook 1 minute more.
- Add chicken broth or vegetable broth and sweet potato cubes.
- Bring to a simmer and cover, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer 20 minutes or until you can pierce potatoes with a fork.
- Add salt and black pepper.
- Using an immersion blender, also called a stick blender), puree the hot soup until smooth. Alternatively, pour the soup mixture carefully into a blender and puree.
- Stir in cream (optional) and serve.
Equipment
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- Stock Pot and Wooden Spoon
- Cutting Board and Santoku Knife
- Measuring Spoons
- Liquid Measuring Cup
- Blender OR Immersion Blender
⏲️ Storage
To Store: Add your fully cooled soup to an airtight container and refrigerate for up to 5 days. (These are my favorite airtight containers.)
To Reheat: Add your chilled sweet potato soup to the stovetop on a gentle heat with a splash of water or chicken broth/vegetable stock in the event that the soup has thickened during storage, till heated throughout. You can also reheat stored soup in the microwave on high heat while stirring at frequent intervals.
To Freeze: Once fully cooled, transfer the sweet potato soup to a freezer-safe container or Ziploc bag and store for up to 3-6 months, although I usually consume stored soup within 3 months. (For freezing, I love these containers.)
To Thaw: Allow the frozen soup to thaw overnight in the refrigerator and then reheat as directed above. You could also submerge your frozen bag of soup in hot water to quicken the defrosting process although I don’t recommend doing so if you opted to include heavy cream as an ingredient.
⭐ Tips
Frozen sweet potatoes work great for this recipe and will save you loads of time.
💭 Frequently Asked Questions
Here are some questions (and answers!) people often as about making this creamy sweet potato soup recipe:
While many may assume that sweet potatoes and yams are the same, they are in fact different root vegetables.
Sweet potatoes are softer in texture once cooked, naturally sweet in flavor, and have a reddish to brown skin with orange, white, or purple flesh (depending on the variety of sweet potatoes). Yams have a rougher texture, a neutral flavor, and brown skin with pale and starchy flesh - much like a regular potato.
Sweet potatoes originated in South or Central America while yams originated in Africa and are less likely to be found in US stores (although sweet potatoes in stores are often erroneously referred to as yams!).
If your soup is a little runny or thin for your liking, simply add a small amount of starch (such as flour) to your soup until you achieve the thickness desired.
It’s best to first mix 1 tablespoon of flour or thicken of your choice to a separate bowl with chicken broth/vegetable stock to form a paste that can then be whisked into the sweet potato soup so that you don’t have any starchy clumps. This also helps dissolve the thickener in the soup more evenly.
Technically, yes you could, although you’re going to end up with an entirely different tasting soup which will also develop a thicker, more starch-like consistency.
You have to keep in mind that yams and sweet potatoes are different root vegetables with different flavors, textures, and starch content. If you’re going to use yams in place of sweet potatoes when it comes to making this soup then you’ll definitely need to make provision for this by adding ingredients such as sugar and increasing your liquid so that you don’t end up with an overly thick soup.
If you’re looking for a good substitute with similar properties to a sweet potato then rather opt for something like Garnet potatoes which come the closest in taste and texture to sweet potato.
The skins of sweet potatoes contain a lot of nutrients that are safe to eat. Because this soup is pureed, you do not need to peel the sweet potatoes before adding them to the pan.
📖 Variations
We recommend that you try our healthy sweet potato soup for the first time just as it is written for the best results. It's a good idea because that is how the recipe has been tested.
However, the next time you make it, you might consider one of these different ways of making this great recipe:
- Garlic, ginger, rosemary, curry powder, allspice, cinnamon, coriander, thyme and cloves all go well with sweet potatoes. I really like chives or tarragon when serving this yummy soup.
- Consider adding a bit of spice like smoked paprika, chili powder, cayenne pepper or a pinch of red pepper flakes to your soup for additional flavor.
- Cook ½ cup of chopped leek with the carrots, celery and onion for leek sweet potato soup.
- If you like, you could even add shredded rotisserie chicken or leftover pulled pork to this creamy soup to make it a hearty meal.
- Use half the sweet potato called for in the original recipe and pumpkin puree or butternut squash for the other half for a fantastic pumpkin sweet potato soup or butternut squash sweet potato soup.
🍴 Serving Suggestions
Serve this soup with some crusty bread or a side salad for a healthy meal. You can add pumpkin seeds or chopped walnuts for a little added crunch. For some tang, add a little bit of Greek Yogurt to the soup just before serving. Top with shredded cheese and bacon crumbles... or better yet, add a little pile of Cheesy Tater Tots with bacon!
😋 Similar Recipes
There's nothing like a warm bowl of soup! Next time, try one of these other great recipes.
- Easy Lasagna Soup - If you love classic lasagna then this Italian-American Lasagna Soup is a must-try, ideal as a satisfying main meal on those cold winter nights.
- Creamy Tomato Basil Soup - This tomato soup is creamy with a subtle zing that’ll have you begging for seconds in no time at all!
- Easy Slow Cooker Potato Soup - Thick and hearty potato soup with vegetables that have been cooked in bacon grease, then topped with bacon pieces and shredded cheese - it’s comfort food at its best!
😍 More Ideas You'll Love
I'm a little bit obsessed with sweet potatoes - they might be my favorite vegetable for Fall and Winter. They're easy to work with, inexpensive, and are packed with lots of vitamin C and vitamin A. If you're a fan of this tuber veggie, check out some of our other well-loved and delicious sweet potato recipes:
- Make Ahead Sweet Potato Casserole
- Sweet Potato Spinach Quiche
- Maple Roasted Sweet Potatoes
- Make Ahead Sweet Potatoes with Brown Sugar
- Old Fashioned Sweet Potato Bread
📋 Healthy Sweet Potato Soup
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Healthy Sweet Potato Soup
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Ingredients
- 2 tablespoon butter
- 1 onion, diced
- 1 large carrot, diced
- 2 celery sticks, diced
- 1 tablespoon fresh garlic, minced
- 3 cups chicken broth or vegetable stock
- 2 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and cubed into 1-inch pieces
- ¼ cup heavy cream (optional)
- salt and pepper to taste
- fresh tarragon (optional)
Instructions
- Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat.
- Add onion, carrot, and celery sauté until onion is translucent.
- Next, add the garlic and cook for 1 minute more.
- Add chicken broth and cubed sweet potatoes.
- Bring to a simmer and cover, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 20 minutes or until you can pierce potatoes with a fork.
- Add salt and black pepper.
- Using an immersion blender, puree the soup until smooth. Alternatively, pour the soup mixture carefully into a blender and puree.
- Stir in cream (optional) and serve.
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Sarah says
I made this the other night and my family loved it! It's so creamy!
Ang says
That's awesome! Thanks for the feedback 🙂