Spicy Shrimp and Sweet Potato Soup

  4.7 – 3 reviews  • Sweet Potato Soup Recipes

Excellent one-stop supper with a little kick! Delicious and low in calories. If you can, use fresh Louisiana yams.

Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 30 mins
Total Time: 50 mins
Servings: 12
Yield: 12 servings

Ingredients

  1. 1 tablespoon olive oil
  2. 1 red onion, chopped
  3. ½ teaspoon minced garlic
  4. 4 cups vegetable stock
  5. 4 cups corn
  6. 2 cups peeled and diced sweet potatoes
  7. 1 (10 ounce) can diced tomatoes with green chile peppers (such as RO*TEL®)
  8. 1 cup salsa
  9. 2 teaspoons chili powder
  10. 1 teaspoon ground cumin
  11. salt and ground black pepper to taste
  12. 1 ½ pounds peeled medium shrimp
  13. 4 green onions, chopped

Instructions

  1. Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. Cook and stir onion and garlic in the hot oil until onion is tender, about 10 minutes. Add vegetable stock, corn, sweet potatoes, diced tomatoes with green chile peppers, salsa, chili powder, cumin, salt, and pepper to onion mixture; bring to a boil for 5 minutes.
  2. Stir shrimp into stock mixture and return to a boil; reduce heat to medium and simmer until shrimp are cooked through, about 10 minutes more. Stir green onion into soup; season with salt and pepper.
  3. If you don’t like it too spicy, replace the Ro*tel(R) with regular diced tomatoes and use mild salsa instead of medium. Bon Appetite!
  4. Substitute yams for sweet potatoes, if desired. Substitute seafood stock for vegetable stock, if desired.

Nutrition Facts

Calories 144 kcal
Carbohydrate 20 g
Cholesterol 86 mg
Dietary Fiber 3 g
Protein 12 g
Saturated Fat 0 g
Sodium 514 mg
Sugars 5 g
Fat 3 g
Unsaturated Fat 0 g

Reviews

Mr. James Mendez
Excellent. Super easy to prepare, served it over jasmine rice! Delicious!
Jesse Warner
followed directions except cooked the shrimp first in a skillet and then added them
Beth Martin
Added a can of Coconut Milk for 2 cups of the stock for a Thia flavor.

 

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