Bon Vivant Market-Smithfield & Suffolk
Sweet Potato and Peanut(butter) Soup

Who thought that being healthy could be this yummy!

2 tablespoons peanut oil
1 large onion
2 cloves garlic, smashed and chopped
4 large mushrooms
1 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1/2 teaspoon ginger
3 and 1/2 vegetable stock
2 large sweet potatoes
      1 cooked and mashed
      1 peeled and cubed
1 and 1/4 cups canned tomatoes with the juice
4 heaping tablespoons peanut butter

Heat the peanut oil in a large saucepan
 
Add onion, garlic, and mushrooms, saute until the onions are soft and golden

Add crushed pepper, paprika, and ginger.  Mix well and continue cookin gently for 2 minutes

Pour in stock, tomatoes, and cubed sweet potato and simmer until the potato is tender -- 15 minutes

Blend in a food processor until smooth

Add mashed sweet potato and the peanut butter and blend again

Reheat , if necessary, to serve