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Weight Watchers Recipe of the Day: Curried Sweet Potato Soup
This skinny curried soup isn't just any old sweet potato soup. Not by a long shot. This sweet potato soup will make your mouth sing and your tummy smile.
Sweet potatoes are combined with curry powder, lime zest, ground allspice, chopped cilantro, and light coconut milk into a creamy, sweet and spicy low-fat taste sensation.
WW Curried Sweet Potato Soup (5 Freestyle SmartPoints)
Recipe Notes
I wish I could take the credit, but this deliciously healthy curried sweet potato soup with coconut milk is adapted from one of my latest cookbook acquisitions,5 Easy Steps to Healthy Cooking: 500 Recipes for Lifelong Wellness (affiliate link), by Camilla Saulsbury.
In the book and on her website, Enlightened Cooking, she calls the soup Sweet Potato Bisque with West Indian Spices; and although the recipes are each a little different, both sound delectable.
In her description, she says that this easy healthy sweet potato soup "has just the right balance of sweet, savory and spicy." She's right.
Camilla is a talented writer and recipe developer who has a magical way with food that I deeply admire.
Since I'm also putting myself through a virtual cooking school of sorts by reading and cooking from Darina Allen's Ballymaloe Cooking School Cookbook (affiliate link), I applied the Ballymaole Basic Vegetable Soup Technique—which uses a simple ratio of 1 part onion, 1 part potato, 3 parts any vegetable and 4 parts stock or a mixture of stock and milk, or water—when I made this soup.
Skinny Coconut Curry Sweet Potato Soup
I wish everything I made turned out as delicious as this skinny spicy curried sweet potato soup with coconut milk.
You can easily make this soup vegetarian by using vegetable broth (affiliate link).
How Many Calories and WW Points in this Curried Sweet Potato Soup?
According to my calculations, each serving has only 153 calories and:
5 *SmartPoints (Green plan)
5 *SmartPoints (Blue plan)
2 *SmartPoints (Purple plan)
4 *PointsPlus (Old plan)
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Skinny Curried Sweet Potato Soup with Coconut Milk Recipe
Sweet potatoes blended together with curry powder, lime zest, allspice, cilantro and coconut milk for just the right balance of sweet and spicy in a deliciously creamy and warmly satisfying soup
Prep Time20 minutes mins
Cook Time40 minutes mins
Total Time1 hour hr
Servings (adjustable): 6
Calories: 153
Author: Martha McKinnon | Simple Nourished Living
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 4 cups peeled and chopped sweet potatoes
- 1 cup peeled and chopped onions
- 1 cup peeled and chopped potatoes
- Salt & freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 2 teaspoons mild curry powder
- ½ teaspoon ground allspice
- 4 cups low sodium chicken or vegetable broth (affiliate link) (to keep it vegetarian)
- 1 tsp finely grated lime zest (optional)
- 1 cup light coconut milk
- ½ cup cilantro leaves, chopped
Instructions
In a large saucepan heat the oil over medium-low.
Add the sweet potatoes, onions, and potatoes and stir to combine.
Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Cover the pot and cook the vegetables, stirring occasionally, until they begin to soften, 8 to 10 minutes.
Add the curry powder, allspice, broth and lime zest (if using) and stir to combine.
Bring the soup to a boil over medium-high heat and then lower the heat and simmer it gently, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are very soft, 15 to 20 minutes.
Puree the soup, either with an immersion blender (affiliate link) or in batches in a food processor (affiliate link) or blender (affiliate link).
Return the soup to the pan (if not using an immersion blender (affiliate link)) and stir in the coconut milk and cilantro.
Heat the soup over low, stirring occasionally, for another 1 to 2 minutes, until warm.
Season to taste with salt and freshly ground pepper and serve.
Equipment
Recipe Notes
I used 1 teaspoon mild curry powder and 1 teaspoon Pampered Chef Mild Indian Curry Rub
Click here to see your WW PersonalPoints for this recipe and track it in the WW app or site.
5 *SmartPoints (Green plan)
5 *SmartPoints (Blue plan)
2 *SmartPoints (Purple plan)
4 *PointsPlus (Old plan)
Nutrition Facts
Skinny Curried Sweet Potato Soup with Coconut Milk Recipe
Amount Per Serving (1 /6th of recipe)
Calories 153Calories from Fat 27
% Daily Value*
Fat 3g5%
Carbohydrates 29g10%
Fiber 5g20%
Protein 3g6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Course: Soup
Cuisine: Asian
Keyword: low fat sweet potato soup, sweet potato soup, vegetarian curried soup
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Source: 5 Easy Steps to Healthy Cooking: 500 Recipes for Lifelong Wellness (affiliate link) by Camilla Saulsbury
*Points® calculated by WW. *PointsPlus® and SmartPoints® calculated by Simple Nourished Living; Not endorsed by Weight Watchers International, Inc. All recipe ingredients except optional items included in determining nutritional estimates. SmartPoints® values calculated WITHOUT each plan's ZeroPoint Foods (Green plan, Blue plan, Purple plan) using the WW Recipe Builder.
More Sweet Potato Soups for Weight Watchers:
- Easy Sweet Potato & Carrot Soup (3 SmartPoints) found at SnackGirl
- Ellie Krieger's Nutty Sweet Potato Soup (8 WW PointsPlus Value) found at The Food Network
- Sweet Potato Soup with Ginger, Leek & Apple (6 WW Freestyle SmartPoints) found at The New York Times
More Weight Watchers Sweet Potato Recipes:
- Skinny Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Pumpkin Pie Spice and Chile Powder (Simple Nourished Living)
- Roasted Brussels Sprouts, Carrots, Sweet Potatoes, and Onions (Simple Nourished Living)
- Slow Cooker Cider Braised Chicken Thighs with Sweet Potatoes (Simple Nourished Living)
Martha is the founder and main content writer for Simple-Nourished-Living.
A longtime lifetime WW at goal, she is committed to balancing her love of food and desire to stay slim while savoring life and helping others do the same.
She is the author of the Smart Start 28-Day Weight Loss Challenge.
A huge fan of the slow cooker and confessed cookbook addict, when she's not experimenting in the kitchen, you're likely to find Martha on her yoga mat.
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