This purple candy potato soup delivers large taste with easy components – 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 prepare dinner with them.
However I used to be stunned 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 mild, however distinct from orange and yellow).
So as an alternative of roasting or making fries with purple candy potatoes, strive utilizing them in casseroles, stews, and soups the place they’ll take in moisture and different flavors.
Purple Candy Potato Stew: Substances
This soup is a meal in a bowl, with these hearty plant-based components:
- onion, celery, and garlic: base flavor-building components
- 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: strive fire-roasted for further taste!
- canned kidney beans and black beans: complicated carbohydrates, fibre, and protein
- crimson lentils: extra complicated 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 assume 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 likewise a really mild floral essence. So it may be a little bit of a shock should you aren’t used to consuming them.
This soup first appeared in my bonus e-book for the discharge of Dreena’s Sort Kitchen, named “PPF Soup” (a nod to my PPF cookbook). I’ve since included it in my Water Factor information as nicely. Yow 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
Full of purple candy potatoes and black beans, this soup has splendid deep crimson and purple colours and makes a hearty batch—it’s your purple folks feeder! After we have been consuming this soup one night time, the household joked it might be enjoyable to name it “purple folks feeder soup.” Then, I noticed the acronym Is PPF – the identical for Plant-Powered Households. Couldn’t resist!
Substances
- 3-4 tbsp crimson wine or water
- 2 cups chopped crimson 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 word)
- 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 crimson lentils nicely rinsed
- 2 tablespoons vegan Worcestershire sauce
- Few pinches crushed crimson pepper flakes elective
- 4-5 cups torn kale leaves see word
Directions
-
Place a soup pot over medium-high warmth.
-
Pour in 3 tablespoons wine or water and add the onion, celery, oregano, mustard, cumin seed, allspice, salt, and pepper.
-
Cook dinner for 4–5 minutes or till the onion is barely softened; if the veggies are sticking, add a splash extra wine or water.
-
Stir within the garlic and about ½ cup of the inventory and prepare 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.
-
Add remaining inventory, water, potatoes, tomatoes, beans, lentils, Worcestershire, and crimson pepper flakes.
-
Enhance the warmth to excessive and produce 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 crimson lentils are cooked by means of.
-
Flip off the warmth, then stir by means of the kale leaves and allow them to sit within the sizzling soup for a few minutes, simply to wilt.
-
Style and modify with further pepper or different any seasonings as you want.
Video
Notes
Potato Be aware: For those who don’t have purple candy potatoes, you possibly can sub orange or yellow candy potatoes. Or, strive a mix of candy and waxy potatoes like crimson or Yukon gold.
