Sweet Potato & Red Pepper Soup

Ingredients

Directions

1. 1

   Peel the sweet potatoes and cut into pieces (otherwise they will take forever to boil properly).

2. 2

   Cut onion into small pieces.

3. 3

   Seed and cut up the red peppers.

4. 4

   Add the potatoes, onion and peppers into a large pan with the 2 pints of stocked water (if you've had a roast chicken the night before then using the carcass for stock makes a world of difference).

5. 5

   Bring to boil them reduce heat slightly and simmer for 20-30 minutes.

6. 6

   Blend the ingredients together using whatever implement you have, blenders and hand blenders are the most convenient ones to use. Blend until there are few to no bits left.

7. 7

   Add hot sauce to taste (not much is needed though).

8. 8

   Add black pepper to taste.

9. 9

   Heat soup again while stirring for a couple of minutes and serve. Have a good loaf of bread heady, it's the best way to eat soup.