Recipe: Sweet Potato Soup

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After the recent holy festival with great serving of food, drinks, treats… with all the non-stop eating, chatting and laughing, we have got ourselves each a bloating stomach {imagine…. the belly of Santa Claus >.

Sweet Potato soup (蕃薯糖水) in ginger syrup is a typical Asian sweet dessert soup. It is very easy and quick to prepare and cook with literally no failure at all. The dessert soup is sweet along with the fragrant of sweet potato and ginger, and just like ginger tea, it is a little spicy.

With the high soluble fiber content of the sweet potato, it helps to ease some minor indigestion especially after the heavy eating during the festive season. Not to mention the wholesome goodness of nutrients in the sweet potato. Whilst, another ingredient – ginger, is a traditional remedy to cure bloating caused by flatulence. If you are in colder weather, ginger can help to warm your body too.
[Read more about the nutrient about Sweet Potato, here.]
[Read more on the goodness of ginger, here.]

In olden days, there were only Orange or plain white sweet potatoes in the market. The color of the syrup soup used to be clear if using white sugar or white rock sugar. Now, with the new color of purple added in the market, we are able to cook a tri-color sweet potato dessert soup, and the syrup soup color turns out to be purple or darker brown instead. Colorful, isn’t it?

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Yvonne Carrillo Figueroa via Facebook says:December 29, 2011 at 2:22 am
Is there any substitution that can be used for the screw pin leaves?

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Craft Passion via Facebook says:December 29, 2011 at 7:46 am
Yvonne, there is no any direct substitution for screwpine leaf. This leaf has a distinct fragrant and it is called “Pandan leaf”, some Asian store should have it in frozen pack. Hope this help.

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Yvonne Carrillo Figueroa via Facebook says:December 29, 2011 at 9:56 am
Thank you

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heidy says:December 29, 2011 at 4:19 pm
I didn’t know that many kind of sweet patatoes exist…
It seems hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Anna says:December 30, 2011 at 9:45 am
Wow! These sweet Asian soup is something I have never tried and imagined, ever! The closest I have had is ginger soup, which is like spicy tea. Anyway, I am so intrigued at how this will turn out, so i am definitely gonna try this at home. Thanks for sharing.

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- Craft Passion says:December 30, 2011 at 10:47 am
  You will fall in love with this sweet soup if you like ginger tea…. please try it
  
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Maureen says:December 31, 2011 at 12:40 pm
Jenn,

I hope 2012 is the best year ever for you and your family.

Maureen

P.S. This soup is made with THE ONE food I can’t stand – sweet potatoes!

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Recipe: Sweet Potato Soup