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My Wok Life Cooking Blog - Purple Sweet Potatoes Dessert Soup -

Purple Sweet Potatoes Dessert Soup

Posted on July 7, 2008December 28, 2022 by PatriCa BB 雪冰

Sweet potatoes soup

“Take this Low GI, Low GL and Relatively Low Calories Dessert!”

I liked sweet potatoes, of all ways. Baked, boiled, steamed, soup, and even fried. And all colors of it as well. So, I had to have varieties in my sweet potato soup. I preferred it with less sugar, too. Honey rock sugar would make my preffered choice, and it is good for smoothen dry throat, reduce “heatiness” and improve skin and complexion. To add better flavour to my sweet soup, I liked to use also the pandan leaf. It gives an aroma of pandan in my palate when having it.

To the non-initiated, the yellow and orange sweet potatoes are more suitable to cook in soup as the purple flesh type is softened easier than other types. Thus, my experience tells me not to over boil them. Note that the colour of the soup will turn to purplish due to the purple flesh sweet potato. The longer it is cooked, the darker purplish soup it would be. Hence, do not be alarmed. It gives an uniquely nice colour to this dessert without affecting its taste, indeed.

It’s dessert time! Easy steps for mouth-watering sweet potato dessert. Let’s start:

My Wok Life Cooking Blog - Purple Sweet Potatoes Dessert Soup -Ingredients
2 regular yellow flesh sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into smaller piece, as desired
2 regular purple flesh sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into small piece, as desired
2 card-size honey rock sugar (or normal rock sugar, if desired)
4 leafs of pandan leaf, washed and tie all into a knot
1 thick slice of ginger (about 1 cm thick)
1 pot of water (about 1500ml)

Method
1) Bring a pot of water to boil. Put in yellow flesh sweet potatoes, and bring to boil again.

2) Reduce heat to simmer, for 10 min. Add in purple flesh potatoes, ginger, pandan leave and rock sugar.

3) Simmer for another 15 min, or until sweet potatoes soften. Serve hot.

Many people has this perception that sweet potato is high-carbohydrate food. In fact, the carbs value content of sweet potato is much lesser than in white rice by almost half the carbs value. Sweet potato is low in GI, and relatively low in calories. It is also high in nutrients especially Vitamin A which is good for eyes for children. Sweet potato is a better alternative to rice. I like to cook the sweet potatoes with plain porridge for lunch or dinner, and add low-fat milk to the steamed sweet potatoes to eat as breakfast. It’s simply wonderful!

A regular bowl of sweet potato soup here counts about 170kcal.

Tips: Add more sugar to yield “standard” sweetness in it.
*Remove the pandan leaf and/ or ginger slice earlier, if mild flavour preferred.
* Sweet potatoes will disintegrate easily, if over boiled.
* Add yellow flesh first, and then purple flesh as the purples one softens faster than the yellow or orange ones.
*Choose different colour flesh, as desired.

Tags: Soup-basedVegetables
Category: DessertRecipeSweet Savoury

3 thoughts on “Purple Sweet Potatoes Dessert Soup”

  1. Dora says:
    September 24, 2008 at 12:17 pm

    Nice recipe which i want to share it with my friends. ;)

    Reply
  2. PatriCa BB says:
    September 24, 2008 at 10:33 pm

    Hi Dora,

    Thanks for visiting. Hope you try my recipes and like it!

    And, thanks for sharing it with your friends, really appreciate your kindness!!

    Visit me more, load me with questions, if any!

    Reply
  3. Perfectly Imperfect says:
    November 16, 2008 at 7:55 pm

    I love sweet potato & ginger soup! It also happens to be a very good remedy for flu! (Because of the ginger I suppose) Gonna try this recipe out tonight. Thanks woman, your site’s great! :P

    Reply

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