Sweet Potato, Coconut and Lime Soup

Name: Sweet Potato, Coconut and Lime Soup
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Scottish
Ingredients: 2 tbsp olive oil; 2 small onions, chopped; 2 garlic cloves, chopped; 2 fresh red chillies, chopped; 2 large sweet potatoes, chopped; 1½ tsp salt; 1 tsp chilli flakes; 1 tsp desiccated coconut, toasted; ½ tsp cracked black pepper; 400 ml coconut milk; 2 vegetable stock cubes; zest and juice of 1 lime

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Gloagburn

By Alison Niven

Published 2025

About

This one really hits the spot! It lifts the humble sweet potato and makes it taste quite exotic. Don’t be tempted to leave off the topping as it finishes off the soup beautifully and adds a wonderful crunchiness.

Ingredients

2 tbsp olive oil
2 small onions, chopped
2 garlic cloves, chopped

United Kingdom
Gluten-free
Vegan
Soup
Scotland

Method

Heat the oil in a large saucepan set over a medium-high heat. Add the onions, garlic and chilli and cook for 2 minutes, stirring regularly, until just starting to soften. Add the sweet potato along with the salt and pepper, then cover the pan and sweat the vegetables for 3 to 5 minutes.
Add a litre of boiling water and the coconut milk, then crumble in the stoc

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