Saturday, November 13, 2010

AMAZING spicy sweet potato soup

OK this is from The Student's Go Vegan Cookbook, which called it "Chilean Two-Potato Soup" but I renamed it spicy sweet potato soup. I doubt it's even from Chile. Whatev. It was reallllly good. Probably the best soup I've ever made. Maybe the best soup I've ever eaten. So good.

Ingredients:
  • 1 Tbsp olive oil
  • 1/2 cup minced onion (I just used 1 average sized onion, IDK if it was 1/2 a cup or not)
  • 2 minced garlic cloves
  • 1 cup diced sweet potato (again, I just used 1 sweet potato. Who the fuck would cut up a potato, measure out a cup, and then save the rest? For what? Whatev.)
  • 1 diced red potato
  • 1 4-oz can green chilies
  • 1 cup corn kernels (I used a little can)
  • 4 cups vegetable broth
  • 1/2 tsp thyme (but I didn't have any)
  • 1/2 tsp cumin
  • 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper (but I didn't have any so I used a couple shakes of crushed red pepper)
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • Fresh lemon or lime juice

Heat the oil in the bottom of a big pot and sautee the onion and garlic for a few minutes, then throw in everything else except the lemon juice. Bring it to a boil and simmer for 30 minutes ish. Add a little lemon juice to the soup as you serve it. (Except I didn't do that part either because FUCK LEMON JUICE. Yeah, I said it.)

 This is perfect for the winter. Warm and filling and spicy and colorful. Make it today! Make it RIGHT NOW.

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