Sweet Potato Soup and Marinated Sweet Onions
Ingredients
- yield: 4 to 6 servings
- Reprinted with permission from Bland Farms
- yield: 4 to 6 servings
- Marinated onions:
- ½ cup apple cider vinegar
- 1 tbsp. sugar
- 1/8 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp. nutmeg
- 1 Bland Farms® sweet onion peeled and sliced in 1/8-inch rings
- Soup:
- 2 celery stalks finely diced
- ½ Bland Farms® sweet onion finely diced
- 1 tsp. olive oil
- 3 large Vidalia Brands® sweet potatoes peeled and diced
- 2 qts. chicken or vegetable broth
- 1 tsp. salt
- ½ tsp. white pepper
- ¼ tsp. allspice
- 2 cups heavy cream
Instructions
- onions:
- In a bowl combine vinegar, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir in onions. Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour.
- soup:
- In a large pot sauté celery and onion in oil over medium-high heat. Add sweet potatoes and broth. Bring to boiling. Reduce heat; simmer 20 minutes or until potatoes are tender. Season with salt, pepper and allspice. Stir in cream.
- Working in batches, ladle soup into a blender or food processor. Blend until smooth and transfer to a clean pot. Or, use an immersion blender to blend soup in pot until smooth. Adjust seasonings to taste.
- To serve, ladle soup into soup bowls and top with marinated onions. Makes 4 to 6 servings
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