Actually I thought about the title for a full 10 minutes.! Since this soup also has greens – in fact three different kinds of greens – beet greens, kale and spinach, I wanted to put that in too but hey it was turning out ridiculously long! I didn’t want people to be deterred by the title itself! 🙂 Anyways, what you call it is not important – what is really important is that this turned out to be one incredible soup! Such deliciousness obtained by simply combining the right ingredients.And so many healthful ingredients too!
Most Sunday nights are soup and bread nights for us and just as in any restaurant, the soup of the day (in our case nights) is based on what is left over in the refrigerator. Now I had a lot of greens in the fridge which I definitely wanted to use since that was one way of getting my kids to eat it. And black eyed peas was something I had been meaning to cook for a few weeks now. So I thought why not do a soup with them? As for sweet potato …now that just came about in a funny way…my son loves sweet potatoes and because they are so healthy I always bake him one for a quick side. So I took the sweet potato out thinking of baking it for him and then I just spontaneously decided to throw that in the soup pot as well. Turned out to be a wise decision – the chunky sweet potato pieces with the beans in a spicy soup was supremely delicious and very very comforting.! I am also bringing this healthy and wholesome soup to Fiesta Friday where this ‘simple ,delicious and healthy’ meal will be appreciated by many (I hope!) 🙂
I am linking this recipe to ‘Soups with SS‘, which is hosted by Shruti of ‘Cooking with SJ’ and Sonal of Simply Vegetarian.
Here’s the recipe:
[…] Black eyed peas and Sweet potato soup […]
What an excellent soup to bring to the event Indu. I am so glad to see you here :).
Sonal!
You are welcome Sonal! A soup event meant I had to be there! You girls are doing a great job hosting it:)
Thank you 🙂
I love lobias!!! And I’m gonna make this soon 🙂 Thanks for bringing it to our event!!!
You are welcome! And Hope you like it! And I love soups so could not have missed this! 🙂
And finally, I made this one 🙂 Came out wonderful… Just one thing, I kept sweet potato fries as a soupy side and didn’t add it in soupy bowl!!! Thanks once again… 🙂
Oh Wow! thanks for letting me know! And that’s a good idea to do fries on the side. We did like the sweet taste of the sweet potato in the soup too.:)
In fact, I would luv it too… but that time, I was craving for baked fries too 😀
yeah I love sweet potato fries too ! 🙂
It looks like a delicious and healthy soup.
thanks so much.! yes it is indeed both healthy and delicious – its funny that so many healthy things do indeed taste good! 🙂
Don’t know how we missed this. Looks great, Indu. We do something similar with left overs a couple nights a week. 🙂 And we do remember a post is due from us. 🙂 We are still recuperating from our holiday :p
thanks Aditi ..btw I always assume its Aditi and not Nikhil 🙂 Looks like you had a busy vacation! Where did u go?
oh you are absolutely right in assuming that. 🙂 nikhil’s a behind the scenes blogger in our case. We went to Charleston in South Carolina and had a great time! We’ll be putting up a post with our travel & food experiences soon.
This looks so good! Definitely a recipe to try!
I’m looking forward to trying this –
I make sweet potato and butternut soup, so this will be an interesting diversion!
Thanks for the recipe.
Emma 🙂
thanks Emma. Sweet potato and butternut sounds delightful. Yes do try this variation with the beans. We loved it in our house! 🙂
This soup looks great, and full of comforting, healthy ingredients. Thanks for sharing, Indu! 🙂
You are welcome, Saucy and yes it was indeed delicious too 🙂
Indu, you have so many great recipes I still have to try. I was talking to Justine@eclectic odds n sods about your curries which somehow slipped my mind, but I must make very soon. This soup sounds great, too, and healthy. My daughter would love this, minus the sweet potatoes. Maybe I can use regular potatoes?
thanks Angie. How come you forgot about the chicken curry ha..you see only what less than 100 recipe posts a week? 🙂 Ha ha! Btw you did come back to check on us after all, right? I was shocked that you could trust the Fiesta Friday gang to be alone at your home while you were away! LOL! 🙂 🙂
yummy combination!
Thanks Apsara
Hearty, healthful and beautiful… love everything about this Indu! It sounds positively delicious!
Thanks Nancy! Yes it turned out be really yummy! ?
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Hi Indu! This is just loaded with superfoods and healthy goodies. I love how creative you are in forming this unique combination of black eyed peas and sweet potato soup. It looks so hearty and wholesome–a perfect dish to bring to Fiesta Friday to counterbalance all the sweets I’ve been eating!
What a hearty and delicious soup, Indu!
Thsnks Patty. Yes it was really really delicious! ?