This purple candy potato soup delivers huge taste with easy substances – get able to dig right into a bowlful of happiness!
Purple Candy Potatoes: Style & Texture
First, have you ever ever had purple candy potatoes? I hadn’t tried them for my first couple of a long time consuming plant-based! I simply didn’t come throughout them in our grocery shops. So once I did discover them, I used to be so excited to cook dinner with them.
However I used to be shocked with their texture and taste. I used to be used to the very moist, candy taste or orange and yellow varieties. (Discover many candy spud recipes on this submit).
I used to be cooking with the Stokes selection of purple candy potatoes, so I can’t examine to different varieties. However these purple candy spuds are considerably dry and dense, and have a light-weight floral taste (very gentle, however distinct from orange and yellow).
So as a substitute of roasting or making fries with purple candy potatoes, attempt utilizing them in casseroles, stews, and soups the place they will take up moisture and different flavors.
Purple Candy Potato Stew: Components
This soup is a meal in a bowl, with these hearty plant-based substances:
- onion, celery, and garlic: base flavor-building substances
- dried herbs and spices: extra flavor-building
- purple candy potatoes: (choice to sub in purple potatoes or a mix of those with yellow or orange candy potatoes)
- canned crushed tomatoes: attempt fire-roasted for additional taste!
- canned kidney beans and black beans: advanced carbohydrates, fibre, and protein
- purple lentils: extra advanced carbohydrates, fiber and protein
- kale: mighty kale is wilted in simply earlier than serving for extra mighty vitamins
Candy Potato Soup: Pureed vs Chunky
I selected to not create a pureed soup with these purple candy potatoes for a few causes. First, a purple soup jogs my memory of this scene from Bridget Jones. 🤭 I suppose I can’t get previous consuming one thing purple or blue (except it’s a blueberry dessert)!
Additionally, I feel the flavour and texture of purple candy spuds lend themselves in direction of a hearty, chunky soup. Purple candy potatoes have a drier consistency and in addition a really gentle floral essence. So it may be a little bit of a shock in case you aren’t used to consuming them.
This soup first appeared in my bonus e-book for the discharge of Dreena’s Type Kitchen, named “PPF Soup” (a nod to my PPF cookbook). I’ve since included it in my Water Aspect information as effectively. You will discover each collections in my new bookstore, proper right here. Thanks for supporting my work, because it permits me to deliver extra recipes to my web site. 🙏
Please share within the feedback the way you loved the stew. x Dreena
Purple Candy Potato Stew
Stuffed with purple candy potatoes and black beans, this soup has splendid deep purple and purple colours and makes a hearty batch—it’s your purple individuals feeder! Once we have been consuming this soup one night time, the household joked it will be enjoyable to name it “purple individuals feeder soup.” Then, I noticed the acronym Is PPF – the identical for Plant-Powered Households. Couldn’t resist!
Components
- 3-4 tbsp purple wine or water
- 2 cups chopped purple or white onion
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano
- 2 teaspoons dijon mustard
- 1 teaspoon cumin seed or dill seed
- ¼ teaspoon allspice
- ½ teaspoon salt
- Floor black pepper to style
- 4 cloves garlic minced or grated
- 2 cups vegetable inventory
- 2 cups water or extra to skinny as desired
- 4-5 cups cubed bite-sized purple candy potatoes (see notice)
- 1 28-oz can crushed tomatoes
- 1 15-oz can kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 15-oz can black beans, rinsed and drained
- ½ cup purple lentils effectively rinsed
- 2 tablespoons vegan Worcestershire sauce
- Few pinches crushed purple pepper flakes optionally available
- 4-5 cups torn kale leaves see notice
Directions
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Place a soup pot over medium-high warmth.
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Pour in 3 tablespoons wine or water and add the onion, celery, oregano, mustard, cumin seed, allspice, salt, and pepper.
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Prepare dinner for 4–5 minutes or till the onion is barely softened; if the veggies are sticking, add a splash extra wine or water.
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Stir within the garlic and about ½ cup of the inventory and cook dinner for one more couple of minutes till garlic is aromatic and beginning to soften, watching so the garlic doesn’t burn. Cut back warmth if wanted.
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Add remaining inventory, water, potatoes, tomatoes, beans, lentils, Worcestershire, and purple pepper flakes.
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Improve the warmth to excessive and convey the combination to a boil. Cut back the warmth to low, cowl, and simmer for 12–quarter-hour or till the candy potatoes are fork-tender and the purple lentils are cooked by way of.
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Flip off the warmth, then stir by way of the kale leaves and allow them to sit within the sizzling soup for a few minutes, simply to wilt.
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Style and modify with additional pepper or different any seasonings as you want.
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Notes
Potato Observe: In the event you don’t have purple candy potatoes, you may sub orange or yellow candy potatoes. Or, attempt a mix of candy and waxy potatoes like purple or Yukon gold.
