Sweet potato soup with red lentils, tomatoes and turmeric
Delicious warming bowl of soup with healing ingredients. The base of this soup is simple, made of potatoes cooked in broth. Combined with chickpeas, tomato, red onion and garlic. The spicy seasonings are also simple: coriander (seeds and fresh cilantro), turmeric, paprika powder and chili flakes.
This soup is a quicker version of the potato soup with chickpeas. Red lentils do not need to be soaked and have a short cooking time. Sweet potatoes also need less time than regular potatoes. The sweet potato soup remains more clear. So choose the potato soup if you like a creamy, more bound soup.
Sweet potato
You cook the cubed potatoes with chickpeas, onion and tomato in broth. A very easy and quick one pot soup that you can have on the table in 20 minutes!
Broth
You can use a broth of your choice. If you follow Medical Medium you can use the healing broth. I myself used water with mushroom powder. That gives a nice deep flavor to the soup. You can use a single mushroom powder with chaga or reishi. But you get the most flavor from a combination with those two and others. Mine has 7, for example also cordyceps, lion’s mane and shii-take.
No stock cubes please!
Are you not (yet) into vegan cooking? Then you can of course also use chicken broth or stock. But make it yourself, possibly with bones, or buy a good, real stock from free-range, organic chickens.
Do not use the standard supermarket cubes. These contain all kinds of artificial additives. They hardly even contain any meat! That ‘meat taste’? That’s usually fake. It comes from processed yeast and not from meat.
Herbs
For the topping, you can use fresh coriander, parsley or chives. You do not cook these soft, fresh herb with the soup, but only add it on top.
Spices
You can use all the spices dried, including the turmeric. It is best to grind the coriander seed and black pepper into powder yourself, just before you use them. I simply put pepper in the pepper mill. I grind coriander seeds with an (electronic) coffee grinder.
EVOO or oil free?
I fry my onions and garlic in a dash if extra virgin olive oil. But if you eat as low fat as possible you can skip that step and cook everything together with the potatoes.
Sweet potato soup with chickpeas, tomatoes and turmeric – Medical Medium and vegan
Equipment
- 1 large cooking pan
- garlic press
- sieve
Ingredients
- 4 cups sweet potatoes (4 medium potatoes or 300 grams)
- ½ cup red lentils (80 grams)
- 1 large red onion
- 4 cloves garlic
- 3 tomatoes
- 2 tsp coriander seeds freshly ground
- 2 tsp turmeric
- 1 tsp paprika powder
- ½ tsp chili flakes
- ¼ tsp black pepper freshly ground
- 1 handful fresh cilantro
Broth
- 2 ts mushroom powder with 2 cups of water
- or 2 cups MM healing broth
Optional
- extra virgin olive oil leave out for fat and oil free
Instructions
- Chop the onion and fry in a soup pan with a little oil until translucent.Skip this and the flowing steps if you want to make this soup oil and fatfree.
- Crush the garlic and add.
- Wash the tomatoes, cut into large pieces and add.
- Deglaze with the water. Bring to the boil and then let it simmer gently for half an hour with the lid on the pan.If you don't want to use oil, first bring the water to the boil, then add the other ingredients.
- Add the spices and mushroom powder.
- Peel the sweet potatoes. If the skin is thin and nice you can leave them on. Then scrub well and cut away bad spots. Cut into cubes and add.
- Rinse the lentils under the tab. I use a sieve. Add to the soup.
- Let it simmer for 15 minutes.
- Scoop into plates and top with the fresh cilantro, parsley or chives.
Did you make this soup or do you have any questions? Just leave a comment!