Easy Coconut Sweet Potato and Lentil Soup recipe. This vegan dinner idea is the perfect healthy comfort meal for cold nights.
Soup season has got to be one of my favourite seasons. The warm, comforting feeling of eating soup for dinner can’t be beat.
And with the snowy days we have been having here lately, I am so ready to start making soup on the regular again.
Starting with this Coconut Sweet Potato and Lentil Soup.
What you need to make Coconut Sweet Potato and Lentil Soup
To be honest, I usually have all of these ingredients at home already. All you need is:
- oil
- sweet potatoes
- onions
- carrots
- garlic
- ginger
- sambal
- turmeric
- salt
- vegetable broth
- dry lentils
- coconut milk
That’s it!
Variations & Substitutions
One of the main ingredients that I love in this recipe is the Sambal Hot Sauce. Me and my husband put it on everything. Soups, pastas, our rice.. If we have it for dinner, you can bet that we have tried Sambal on it. However, if you do not have Sambal, or can’t find it locally (it’s pretty hard to find around where we live now!) you can replace it with any hot sauce you like.
This recipe is vegan as it is written, but if you wanted to add some additional protein, do that!! I have added leftover chicken and turkey to this soup and it is so good! This might also be a solution to any leftover turkey you may have over Thanksgiving.
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Coconut Sweet Potato and Lentil Soup
Ingredients
- 2 Tbsp oil
- 1 lb sweet potatoes, peeled and diced into 1 inch cubes
- 1 large onion, diced
- 2 large carrots, peeled and diced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tso fresh grated ginger
- 1 Tbsp Sambal Hot Sauce
- 1/4 tsp turmeric
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3 1/2 cups vegetable broth
- 1 1/2 cups dry lentils
- 1 (400mL) can coconut milk
Instructions
- In a large saucepan, heat the oil. Once the oil is hot, cook the sweet potatoes, onion and carrots until onions are fragrant.
- Add in the garlic, ginger, hot sauce, turmeric and salt. Cook for around 2 minutes.
- Add in the vegetable broth and the lentils. Bring to a boil the reduce heat. Cover and allow to simmer for around 5 minutes.
- Add in the coconut milk and cook until the lentils are tender.
Notes
- I use avocado oil, but any neutral oil works.
- Store the soup in the fridge for up to 5 days.
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This sounds delcious! The sweet potatoes, the ginger, the hot sauce. I’m all in!
Definitely one of my favourites soups for the colder weather!
mmm I LOVE all of the flavors in this soup. It sounds like the perfect, warm, comfort food for this crazy cold weather we’ve been having – a definite must try!
It’s one of my favourites 😉
This coconut sweet potato lentil soup is comforting like a hug and very delicious. Love soup season!
So glad you liked it 🙂
Mmm I love this combination of flavors. The coconut is delicious here…such a comforting dish. I wish I had a bowl of this right now 😀
It’s so good, right? 🙂
I love the ingredients in here so tried it out! It was so good and pretty easy to make, too! Will make again next week.
That makes me so happy to hear 🙂
This is such a great-looking soup! Love the creaminess of this and the coconut ingredients will give this more flavor and taste! Will definitely make this at home!
Thanks Jamie 🙂
This dish is so thick and hearty, the perfect comfort food. I love the sweetness of the coconut milk and sweet potatoes in it.
Healthy comfort food at its finest 😉
I’m a big fan of soup, especially around this time of the year and this one looks really tasty and flavorful.
Thanks! 🙂
What a great soup! It was nice and hearty with the sweet potatoes and lentils, and I love the flavor and creamy texture the coconut milk added.
That makes me so happy to hear 🙂
Oh my gosh!! This is absolutely delicious!! I’ve been searching for a sweet potato and lentil soup recipe for a while. This recipe is easy, healthy and so good. We loved it, thank you!!
Yay! I am so glad you liked it 🙂
That is such a hearty soup and I love soups like this for dinner, be it any season. Love that this soup was so filling and did not really need anything else to be served with it.
Agree! So glad you liked it 😉