A creamy sweet potato soup with jumbo shrimp, pan seared scallops and fresh crab meat. This easy to make soup is topped with giant chunks of Pancetta ham and fresh oregano.
Guys, I have so many sweet potato recipes lined up but don't want to dump them all out on you at once. So let me know if things get out of hand or you just can't face the weird shaped orange spud anymore.
And I'll stop. Well maybe I'll just slow down because man, I love me some sweet potatoes!
I love them baked with huge amounts of cheese like these Dauphinoise Style. I love them with slow cooked short ribs and I love them just mashed with buckets of butter. But this time I made soup.
I thought about calling it a Sweet Potato Chowder because it does have seafood and cream in it, and it's thick and delicious just like a good clam chowder. But this soup is much more, I was completely blown away by the flavor and I'm not a huge soup guy to begin with.
This is your Thanksgiving soup right here.
Preparing to make sweet potato soup
I started the recipe the same way I make any soup and that's by roasting the veggies. Soup is so easy to make if you have a decent blender or food processor.
Roast the veggies in the oven and blend with stock until you reach a consistency that you like. The flavor will depend on what you roast, and how long you roast them for.
Add some cream and seasoning and that's it. You could make this sweet potato soup up until that point and walk away with a super-amazing soup. You can skip the seafood all together, but I recommend you keep it.
Should the sweet potatoes be peeled?
For soup they should be peeled as the final consistency needs to be silky smooth. Usually I'd just scrub the sweet potatoes and leave the peel as it's loaded with nutrients.
For example, mashed sweet potatoes, baked or sweet potato fries are all great with peel still attached.
Are sweet potatoes also called yams?
Yams are a type of sweet potato and can be recognized by their lighter, more white color. Sweet potatoes are more red skinned with an orange interior.
If you're looking for the healthiest, choose sweet potatoes over yams!
Can you freeze this sweet potato soup?
Yes you can freeze it but it would be better frozen without the seafood. Once reheated you can add the seafood and enjoy it at its freshest.
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