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Sweet Potato, Wild Garlic and Spinach Soup

April 30, 2015 · by munchiesandmunchkins · 49 Comments

I love wild garlic. It smells incredible and at this time of year it’s so abundant and of course it’s FREEEEEEEE.

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We went foraging a few weeks ago and it was lots of fun. We came home with a bulging bagful of fragrant leaves and I’ve already made a wild garlic oil, a pesto and this soup:

You will need:

4 small sweet potatoes diced
1/2 large red onion diced
4 handfuls of wild garlic, roughly chopped ( I just used the leaves)
2 handfuls of baby leaf spinach
750ml of vegetable stock
1/4 tsp crushed black pepper
Pinch of sea salt
25g of butter

*50ml of double cream – optional.

Sauté your sweet potatoes and onions in butter in a large saucepan until softened and golden. Add your stock and bring to the boil before adding the wild garlic and simmering for 5 minutes. In the last minute add your spinach, black pepper and seasalt.

Now you have two choices, you can purée it thoroughly using a hand blender or you can blend mostly and leave some texture which is what I chose to do. I then added the cream for a little splash of indulgence but if you are watching the calories it would be perfectly good without it. Again the butter can be substituted for oil if needed.

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This soup was delicious and made about 4 large bowlfuls. It was even better the following day after the flavours had mingled. Yum.

Have you got a glut of wild garlic you want to use up?

Try these recipes from some of my fellow bloggers:

Wild Garlic Scones
Wild Garlic Pesto Pinwheels
Feta & Wild Garlic Muffins
Quinoa with Wild Garlic Sauce
Fennel and Wild Garlic Salad
Beetroot, Walnut, Wild Garlic and Goats Cheese Brunch Muffins

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