Best Red Pepper Potato Soup Recipes

ROASTED RED PEPPER AND POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large pot over medium heat, and mix in the olive oil. Saute the onion, carrot, and celery for about 5 minutes, until onion is lightly browned. Stir in the garlic, and continue to cook 1 minute. Mix in the flour. Whisk in the chicken broth, and bring to a boil. Place the potatoes in the pot, reduce heat to low, and cook 15 minutes, until potatoes are tender.
• Mix the half-and-half into the pot. Stir in the roasted red peppers. Season with thyme, salt, and pepper. Continue cooking until heated through.

SPICY SWEET POTATO AND RED PEPPER SOUP

Steps:

• Peel and roughly chop the sweet potato
• De-seed the pepper and chilli and roughly chop
• Add ingredients to a pan and add in the stock, season with salt and pepper
• Bring to the boil then simmer for 20-30 minutes until vegetables are tender.
• Remove from the heat and allow to cool slightly, then blend with hand blender or in liquidiser until smooth. Check seasoning and adjust to taste if necessary.

PUREED RED PEPPER AND POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil over medium heat in a large, heavy soup pot and add the onion and carrot. Cook, stirring often, until the onion begins to soften, and add 1/2 teaspoon salt. Continue to cook, stirring often, until tender, about 5 minutes, and stir in the garlic and the tomato paste. Stir for a minute or two, until the garlic is fragrant and the tomato paste has darkened, and add the peppers, paprika, and another 1/2 teaspoon salt. Cook, stirring often, until the peppers begin to soften, about 5 minutes.
• Add the potatoes, stock, and bouquet garni and bring to a simmer. Add salt to taste, 1 to 2 teaspoons, cover and simmer over low heat for 1 hour. Remove the bouquet garni.
• Using an immersion blender, or in a blender or food processor fitted with the steel blade (working in batches and covering the blender lid or food processor with a kitchen towel to prevent the hot soup from splashing), blend the soup until smooth. Strain the soup through a medium strainer, pushing it through the strainer with a spatula or the bowl of a ladle, and return to the heat. Heat through, add salt and pepper to taste, and serve. Garnish with garlic croutons and slivered fresh basil or chopped thyme, and drizzle a few drops of olive oil over each serving if desired.

BUTTERNUT SQUASH, SWEET POTATO AND RED PEPPER SOUP

Steps:

• Peel the squash, sweet potato, carrots, and onion.
• Dice the above ingredients and the red pepper and parsley.
• Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan and soften all the above ingredients for a few minutes.
• Make up a pint of stock with the stock cube and pour this over the softened vegetables.
• Add the salt and pepper to taste, add more water if required.
• Put a lid on the pan and simmer until the carrots, sweet potato and squash are all completely cooked.
• Take the pan off the heat and leave to cool a bit, then liquidise the whole lot until smooth.
• Serve with nice fresh crusty bread.

RED BELL PEPPER AND SWEET POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Heat the oil.
• Saute the onions and garlic for about 10-15 minutes on medium heat, or until the onions are soft and very lightly browned.
• Add the bell peppers and saute for another 10-15 minutes, until the bell peppers are soft and everything is lightly browned.
• Add the sweet potato, vegetable broth, bay leaves, salt, and butter and simmer for 10-15 minutes, until the sweet potato is soft.
• Remove the bay leaves and blend the soup until mostly smooth.
• Enjoy!

SPICY SWEET POTATO RED PEPPER SOUP

Steps:

• After sweet potatoes are boiled, drain, put back into dutch oven or large pot, add stock.
• Add diced roasted red bell peppers (roast your own if you like), butter & sauteed onion to potatoes & broth mixture.
• Blend until smooth with a stick blender (or regular blender).
• Season to taste, adding sugar if you think you need it.
• Serve in bowls, adding about a tablespoon of goat cheese to each serving.
• Drizzle each bowl with a little hot chili oil, which you can find in asian markets.

CURRIED SWEET POTATO AND ROASTED RED PEPPER SOUP

Steps:

• Saute chopped onion in olive oil together with garlic and ginger for about 2 minutes.
• Chop 2 sweet potatoes into medium sized chunks.
• Cook sweet potatoes with onion, garlic and ginger for about 5 minutes.
• Add water, roasted red pepper, chicken soup mix and spices.
• Cook for 30 minutes or until sweet potatoes are soft.
• Take pot off the heat.
• Puree wither using a food processor once soup is cooled or in the pot directly with an immersion (stick) blender.
• Adjust with spices and water as needed.
• Top with croûtons and/or a little rum and enjoy!

ROASTED RED PEPPER AND SWEET POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• In a roasting pan, toss together the peppers, potatoes, onion, garlic, oil, Italian seasonings, salt and pepper.
• Roast @ 425*, for 1 hour, or until tender and golden around the edges. Make sure you stir the vegetables at least once during cooking.
• In a food processor, puree the vegetables with stock in batches. Strain into a large pot.
• Whisk in 1 cup water.
• Bring soup to boil; cover, reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
• Serve, topped with the yogurt that's been mixed with the parsley.

RED PEPPER POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet.
• Place the red bell pepper on the prepared baking sheet and roast in the preheated oven until the skin blisters, 15 to 20 minutes. Handling carefully, cut small slits with a knife into each of the 4 sides of the hot pepper. Immediately plunge the pepper a small bowl full of ice water for 2 minutes. Slice the pepper in half. Remove and discard the skin. Chop the flesh into small pieces. Set aside.
• While the pepper roasts, melt the butter in a large pot over medium heat. Cook the onion, celery, and garlic in the melted butter until tender, about 5 minutes. Pour 3 cups of the chicken stock into the pot; season with salt and pepper. Add 3 more cups of the chicken stock, the carrots, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Stir the potatoes into the soup along with the remaining 2 cups of stock; bring to a boil for 10 minutes. Add the roasted pepper, sage, and ginger. Continue boiling until the potatoes and carrots are tender, another 10 to 15 minutes. Serve hot.

ROASTED RED PEPPER, SWEET POTATO & SMOKED PAPRIKA SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Put the sweet potato, pepper, onion and garlic on a baking tray. Sprinkle with the paprika and seasoning, then drizzle with the oil. Toss together. Roast for 30 mins or until beginning to brown.
• Tip the roasted vegetables into a blender (or use a stick blender) with the coconut milk, stock, sriracha and maple syrup. Whizz until smooth. Pour back into the pan and heat until piping hot. Check for seasoning, and pour into a flask. Serve with soda bread or toasted sourdough.

SWEET POTATO & RED PEPPER SOUP

Steps:

• Peel and slice the sweet potatoes into discs about a half centimetre thick.
• Put the sweet potoatoes, onions, red pepper and cumin into an oven proof bowl and pour over the olive oil.
• Roast in the oven at 200C for about 45 minutes until all the ingredients are soft.
• Put the cooked vegetables into a blender and add the hot vegetable stock. Blend to a liquid and serve. Add more vegetable stock if you require a thinner consistency.

SAFFRON SWEET POTATO AND RED PEPPER SOUP

Steps:

• Heat broiler to high. Line a baking sheet with foil. Arrange red peppers on sheet skin side up and broil about 4 inches from heat until skin is very charred, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove from oven and wrap peppers in foil to steam skin loose, 10 to 15 minutes. Peel off skin and coarsely chop flesh.
• In a 4-quart saucepan, heat olive oil. Add onion, 3 thyme sprigs, bay leaf and salt. Cover and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until soft, about 10 minutes. Add sweet potatoes, bell peppers, stock, 2 cups water and saffron and bring to a boil. Uncover, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 15 minutes.
• Discard thyme sprigs and bay leaf. Using an immersion blender, purée soup. Taste and add salt if needed, and white pepper. Ladle soup into bowls and garnish with leaves from remaining thyme sprigs and a drizzle of olive oil.

SAFFRON SWEET POTATO AND RED PEPPER SOUP

Steps:

• 1. Heat broiler to high. Line a baking sheet with foil. Arrange red peppers on sheet skin side up and broil about 4 inches from heat until skin is very charred, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove from oven and wrap peppers in foil to steam skin loose, 10 to 15 minutes. Peel off skin and coarsely chop flesh. 2. In a 4-quart saucepan, heat olive oil. Add onion, 3 thyme sprigs, bay leaf and salt. Cover and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until soft, about 10 minutes. Add sweet potatoes, bell peppers, stock, 2 cups water and saffron and bring to a boil. Uncover, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 15 minutes. 3. Discard thyme sprigs and bay leaf. Using an immersion blender, purée soup. Taste and add salt if needed, and white pepper. Ladle soup into bowls and garnish with leaves from remaining thyme sprigs and a drizzle of olive oil. Yield: 8 servings. Copyright 2009 The New York Times Company

PUREED RED PEPPER AND POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Heat a large, heavy frying pan over medium-high heat and add the cumin seeds and coriander seeds. Toast in the pan, stirring or shaking the pan, until they begin to smell fragrant, and transfer to a spice mill. Allow to cool for a few minutes, then pulse to crush or coarsely grind. Set aside. Return the frying pan to medium heat and add 1 tablespoon of the olive oil. Add the onion and cook, stirring often, until tender, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and salt, stir together for about half a minute, and stir in the cumin seeds, and coriander seeds. Add the remaining olive oil and stir in the quinoa, chick peas, and 3 tablespoons of the pomegranate seeds. Stir over medium heat to heat through, several minutes. Taste and adjust salt. Transfer to a platter or wide bowl and decorate with the remaining pomegranate seeds. You can also mold the pilaf into 1/2-cup ramekins or timbales and unmold onto the plate, then decorate with pomegranate seeds. Stir the garlic into the thickened yogurt. Serve the pilaf topped with the yogurt.