Lentil Sweet Potato Soup

This lentil sweet potato soup is hearty, nourishing, full of healthy ingredients, and feels so comforting and grounding. It is also fat-free! Serve as is or alongside some crusty healthy bread.

Lentil Sweet Potato Soup

Ingredients

• 8 cups water
• 1 large yellow onion, diced
• 4 large garlic cloves, minced
• 1 super small bunch or 3-4 large ribs/sticks celery, sliced
• 3 small or 2 large carrots, diced (you could also substitute parsnips in Fall)
• 1 large sweet potato or about 3 cups, peeled and diced
• 1 cup dried black lentils, rinsed well
• 1 tsp curry powder
• 2 1/2 tsp cumin powder
• 1 tsp dried thyme
• 1 tsp sea salt or Himalayan salt
• fresh chopped parsley, to serve on top (this adds a lot)

Instructions

1. In a large soup pot or a wide deep sauté pan, sauté the onion and garlic in a little bit of water until the onion is translucent.
2. Add in the celery and carrots. Sauté for another few minutes.
3. Now add in the remaining ingredients except for the parsley. 8 cups water or broth, sweet potato, black lentils, curry powder, cumin powder, thyme, and salt
4. Bring it all to a boil.
5. Once brought to a boil, lower the heat just a bit so it cooks at a really good simmer. Cook for 45-60 minutes (cover off) watching to see when everything is tender. Give it a stir here and there.
6. Remove from the heat to prevent further cooking. The soup will also thicken and absorb more liquid as it sits. Serve topped with fresh parsley. ENJOY this nourishing soup!

Riane’s Tidbits For Lentil Sweet Potato Soup

Sweet Potato Substitute

This recipe includes sweet potato which makes it sweeter, but if you would rather you could substitute for a russet potato. Just know I have not tried this substitution and am guessing you would want to substitute vegetable broth for the water since a russet is much more mild in flavor. I would also use green lentils in place of black lentils with a russet too. Note that black lentils hold their shape while cooking and other lentils lose their shape a bit.

Lentils

It’s always best to really rinse lentils before putting them in, but I forget once in awhile too. If you forgot, it will still turn out.

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Lentil Sweet Potato Soup

Once you make this lentil sweet potato soup, I bet it will be a repeat recipe in your home. It's hearty, nourishing, full of healthy ingredients, and feels so comforting and grounding. It is also fat-free! Serve as is or alongside some crusty healthy bread. You are going to love this delicious healthy soup!

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Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 50 mins

Total Time 1 hr

Course Main Course, Soup

Cuisine American

Servings 6

Ingredients

  

• 8 cups water or broth I use water to make it really cost effective & I don’t miss the broth
• 1 large yellow onion diced
• 4 large garlic cloves minced
• 1 cup dried black lentils rinsed well
• 1 super small bunch or 3-4 large ribs/sticks celery sliced
• 3 small or 2 large carrots diced
• 1 large sweet potato or about 3 cups peeled and diced
• 1 tsp curry powder
• 2 1/2 tsp cumin powder
• 1 tsp dried thyme
• 1 tsp sea salt or Himalayan salt
• fresh chopped parsley to serve highly recommend this

Instructions

 

• In a large soup pot or a wide deep sauté pan, sauté the onion and garlic in a little bit of water until the onion is translucent.
• Add in the celery and carrots. Sauté for another few minutes.
• Now add in the remaining ingredients except for the parsley. 8 cups water or broth, sweet potato, black lentils, curry powder, cumin powder, thyme, and salt
• Bring it all to a boil.
• Once brought to a boil, lower the heat just a bit so it cooks at a really good simmer. Cook for 45 minutes to an hour watching to see when everything is tender. (Cover Off) Stir it here and there.
• Remove from the heat to prevent further cooking. The soup will also thicken and absorb more liquid as it sits. Serve topped with fresh parsley. ENJOY!

Notes

Note 

The soup thickens as it sits.

Fat-Free

To keep it fat-free make sure your broth is free of oil if you use the broth option. Trader Joe’s Hearty Organic Vegetable Broth and Bonafide Vegetable Broth are two clean ingredient broths without any oil in them.

Sweet Potato Substitute

This recipe includes sweet potato which makes it sweeter, but if you would rather you could substitute for a russet potato. Just know I have not tried this substitution and am guessing you would want the broth over water option since a russet is much more mild in flavor. I would maybe even use green lentils in place of black lentils with a russet.

Also, if you do substitute a russet, I would add in fresh squeezed lemon juice at the end in addition or in place of the salt if you happen to be cutting out salt. The lemon addition will bring out a lot of flavor. You could even add in a little lemon zest if you wish.

 

Plant-Based | Vegan | Gluten-Free | Dairy-Free | Fat-Free | Medical Medium Friendly Compliant Recipe

Keyword Healthy, Easy, Lentil Soup, Plant-Based, Vegan, Fat-Free, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Medical Medium Compliant,

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