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Preserve Your Harvest,  Seasonal Recipes

Creamy Roasted Carrot & Sweet Potato Soup Recipe (Vegan)

Soup? In the summertime? Yeah, I feel a tad silly sharing a soup recipe with you now, being that it is currently July… but hang with me. Maybe you live in a climate with temperate summers, like us? We totally eat soup year-round here. On the other hand, if summer soup is not your jam – that’s okay too! Because while we love eating this killer sweet potato carrot soup fresh, the primary reason we make it is to freeze for later use! It makes for super quick and easy meals at a later date, and is the perfect way to preserve carrots from the garden! That is, in addition to making fermented carrot pickles with them. 


Whether you have a huge harvest of homegrown carrots to use, or simply a hankering for some nutritious, hearty, creamy, soul-warming soup, this recipe will hit the spot! Full of roasted veggies, fresh herbs, and flavor, this simple carrot sweet potato soup can be enjoyed as-is, or used as a base to doctor-up and create a variety of soups! We enjoy it both ways.


If you need some tips on growing carrots, be sure to check out this post: “How to Grow Carrots Successfully, from Seed to Table”


Note:

Since we like to stock the freezer with this stuff, and I have to warn you: we make very large batches of soup. Therefore, I am going to give you a “full recipe” (what you’ll see being made in photos) and a “half recipe” for convenience. For reference, the full variation was cooked in a 16 quart stock pot, and yields about 9-10 quarts of carrot sweet potato soup. Needless to say, feel free to further scale down or up from there. 


A large woven basket and also large wooden bowl, full of rainbow carrots (red yellow white and orange) perched on the edge of a  wood raised garden bed. There is bluish grey gravel and white paver stones between the raised beds, and potted cactus in the background.
Some of our colorful homegrown carrots. Sometimes, we harvest up to 20 pounds of carrots at a time! No matter how much we try to eat fresh, we definitely need ways to preserve some too – like this soup.



INGREDIENTS


FULL RECIPE
(Yields 9-10 quarts of soup)
HALF RECIPE
(Yields 4-5 quarts of soup)
5 pounds of carrots2.5 pounds of carrots
4 pounds of sweet potatoes, or about 5 large ones2 pounds of sweet potatoes, or about 2-3 large ones
2 large onions, either red or yellow (we used 4 small garden onions as equivalent)1 large onion, either red or yellow 
Fresh thyme, oregano, and sage – I suggest at least a large handful (or standard clamshell package) each. The more, the merrier!Fresh thyme, oregano, and sage – I suggest at least a modest handful (about half a standard clamshell package) each. The more, the merrier!
1 bunch of celery, chopped1/2 bunch of celery, chopped
1 medium bulb of garlic, about 8-10 cloves1/2 medium bulb of garlic, about 4-5 cloves
2 quarts vegetable broth or stock1 quart vegetable broth or stock
3 quarts water1.5 quarts water
1 can of coconut cream, about 14 ounces1/2 can of coconut cream, about 7 ounces
1 Tablespoons yellow curry powder (or more, to taste)1/2 Tablespoon yellow curry powder (or more, to taste)
2 teaspoons salt1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/2 tsp cumin1/4 tsp cumin
Olive oil and/or coconut oilOlive oil and/or coconut oil


Learn how to easily make homemade veggie broth here! Or, use concentrated “better than bouillon” paste mixed with water to achieve the same volume. 

*NOTE: Before we get too much further, I should mention that the final product of this recipe is a blended/pureed carrot sweet potato soup. We accomplish this using our favorite immersion blender, which makes it extremely quick and easy! Alternatively, you could use a traditional blender at the end, though that may get a little messy and complicated. Especially if you make a full batch. 



Looking down on some of the fresh ingredients used in this recipe, artfully laid out on a cutting board in moody lighting. There are several sweet potatoes, carrots, red onions with their greens still attached, and a variety of fresh herbs on display.



INSTRUCTIONS



1) Roast Carrots & Sweet Potatoes


Preheat your oven to 425°F. Wash your carrots and taters.

Cut the sweet potatoes into approximately 2 by 2 inch chunks. We like to leave the skins on! There is a ton of good nutrition in there. Next, roughly chop your carrots. No need to peel those guys either. If they’re fatties, take them down into 1-inch medallions. If they’re petite, baby-carrot size, go ahead and leave them whole! I love using our smaller, less developed garden carrots for this. No prep. So easy! Plus, the size and shape doesn’t matter all that much. They will all be blended up in the end anyways! 

Load up one or two large glass baking dishes with the carrots and sweet potatoes. We tend to need two dishes when we make our full recipe. Drizzle over a healthy amount of extra virgin olive oil, and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Toss to coat.

Roast them in the oven (uncovered) for about 40 minutes, rotating the pans and giving everything a good stir halfway through. When they’re finished, the carrots and sweet potatoes should be lightly browned and tender to the fork. If they’re a tad firm in some spots, that is okay. They’ll continue to cook further in the pot too.

Meanwhile, you can prep your other goodies while they’re roasting.


Two glass baking dishes, seen from above. One is full of cut chunks of orange sweet potato. The other is full of chopped and whole rainbow carrots. They're still raw, ready to go into the oven to roast. You can see shiny coat of oil, salt, and pepper across them.



2) Sauté


When the carrots and sweet potatoes are nearly finished roasting, get your favorite stock pot heated up. Over medium-high heat, add a good drizzle (about 2 tbsp) of olive oil and coconut oil each to the pot. Yes, we like to use both, but it’s not necessary if you only have one or the other! 

Add diced onions and garlic to the pot, and let them sauté together for a few minutes before adding the chopped celery. Again, all of this is going to get blended later, so don’t worry about being perfect with your cuts. Add a few shakes of salt and black pepper. Sauté until the onions, garlic, and celery turn slightly translucent and soften.

Next, add all of your fresh herbs. Remove any woody stems (e.g. from thyme) and roughly chop them first. Stir well, and allow the herbs to cook with the onion-garlic mixture for a minute or two. 

Finally, dump in all the nicely roasted carrots and sweet potatoes, and mix well. 


Four image photo collage, showing the inside of a large stainless steel soup stock pot. The first shows celery, onion, and garlic. Then fresh chopped herbs are added on top. Next, roasted carrots. Finally, it shows the sweet potatoes and all previous ingredients mixed in the bottom of the pot.
Note that our garlic looks like it is whole bulbs. We actually used roasted green garlic from the freezer, which becomes very soft when heated.


3) Add Liquid & Season

Once all of your veggies are tossed together, it is time to create the soup broth. Honestly, we’re a bit lazy here and use store-bought veggie broth most of the time. I know many homesteaders and chefs prefer to make their own, so feel free to do so! 

Add the vegetable stock to the soup pot. For a big batch, we usually use one quart of low-sodium broth and one regular. Also add the called-for amount of water and coconut cream listed in the table above. I highly suggest using cream, not coconut “milk”, since coconut cream is much thicker in consistency – and also more flavorful!

Now it is time for seasonings! Adjusting to full or half batch measurements, add the appropriate amount of yellow curry powder, pepper, and cumin. Don’t worry, the curry is pretty mild at this amount – giving it a perfect boost of earthy flavor, but no overwhelming heat. I am not a huge “spicy” fan myself. 

I suggest mixing this all in well and giving it a taste before adding more salt. If you used full-sodium veggie broth, or salted your veggies with a heavy hand during cooking, you may not want to add any more! When we made this last, we added an additional 2 teaspoons of salt to get it where we like it. 


Three way image collage, showing a hand holding a container or vegetable broth, then coconut cream, then curry powder, all hovering over a large stainless steel stock pot on the stove, with soup inside.
Ha! I swear this is NOT an ad for Traders Joe’s.


4) Simmer & Blend


Once combined, allow everything to simmer together on a medium-low heat. This helps bring all the flavors together. Additionally, if any of your carrot or potato chunks were still a tad firm out of the oven, this allows them more time to soften. There is no steadfast rule in timing here. I’d say we usually let it go for anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes. 

Finally, use an immersion blender to pulse and puree the carrot sweet potato soup until it is a uniform, smooth, creamy consistency. Boom. Done. Yum. 


Two image photo collage. One is the stock pot of soup, still chunky, with a stainless steel immersion blender poised above the pot. The next image shows the soup, now all blended into a smooth consistency and rich orange in color.



5) Enjoy!


This step is pretty self-explanatory, right? Well, I thought I would give you a couple tips anyways. As I mentioned before, this hearty carrot sweet potato soup is damn good just by itself. If you’re feeling fancy and fall-like, it is also superb with a sprinkle of roasted pumpkin seeds on top. Of course, we were out when we did this little photo shoot!

Additionally, you also can’t go wrong serving it with a slice of homemade sourdough bread and a sprinkle of grated cheese on top! Parmesan or sharp cheddar work especially well. Alternately, a sprinkle of nutritional yeast or your fave vegan cheese. These herb sourdough crackers are also damn good with any soup!

One thing I really love about this carrot sweet potato soup is that because it is so thick and flavorful, but also fairly simple, you can totally change it up at the time of serving! For example, when we take out a quart from the freezer, we’ll often sauté some fresh garden greens like kale, bok choy, or swiss chard, thin slices of summer squash, maybe a few mushrooms, and even black beans in the bottom of the pan before adding the soup. Really, whatever veggies are coming out of the garden are welcome here too. 

This soup is good for about a week in the refrigerator, and up to a year in the freezer!


A white ceramic bowl sits full of roasted carrot and sweet potato soup. A cutting board is nearby with a fresh loaf of sourdough bread, half the loaf is visible, along with two fresh slices of bread.


6) Freezer Tips


Rapid Cooling

When it comes time to portion out a large batch of soup to freeze, I always suggest to rapidly cool it first. Did you know that I used to be a food inspector? Furthermore, did you know that a leading cause of food borne illness (aka “food poisoning”) is improper cooling of large batches of thick, hot foods? Yeah, gross. 

One way to rapidly cool hot foods is to divide them up into smaller portions. However, I am not too keen on putting hot food into plastic containers, even though the freezer containers we use are BPA-free. Therefore, we usually create an “ice bath” in our sink – surrounding the hot pot with ice water – and frequently stir it. Consequently, this cools it down to lukewarm as quickly as possible, so we can portion it into our containers soon thereafter.


Package for Freezing

We love and use these containers for freezing our soups, and also for our go-to homemade madras curry lentils! They’re reusable, BPA-free, and made in the USA. The set comes with a variety of sizes: quart, pint, and half-pint size, just like jars. We find a quart is the perfect soup serving for two. Fill them to the “fill line”, pop on the lid, and get them in the freezer. 

Speaking of jars, we used to try to freeze glass quart jars of soup, but stopped as more and more cracked on us – wasting a lot of food. On the other hand, half-pint and pint-size wide mouth jars (marked freezer safe) freeze well and are perfect for pesto and other smaller things, whereas quart jars are tricky. The bend in the “shoulder” that makes them crack easier. 

When you’re in the mood for a quick and hearty meal, simply pop one from the freezer to defrost in the fridge!


Two images of the finished roasted carrot and sweet potato soup, in 7 plastic quart jars ready to go into the freezer. One image is looking down on 7 circles of golden yellow orange soup from above, and one is of the quart containers stacked like a pyramid.
All ready to freeze. Helloooo tasty easy future meals!


That’s all there is to it! 



Now you can go fill your belly (and your freezer) with this delicious, roasted, hearty homemade soup and enjoy many easy meals to come!


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Finally, if you are looking for other satisfying, healthy, garden-to-table vegetarian recipes, you may also enjoy:


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Creamy Roasted Carrot & Sweet Potato Soup (Vegan)

Whether you have a harvest of homegrown carrots to use, or simply a hankering for some nutritious, hearty, creamy, soul-warming soup, this recipe will hit the spot! Full of roasted carrots, sweet potatoes, fresh herbs, and flavor, this simple carrot soup can be enjoyed as-is, or used as a base to doctor-up and create a variety of soups! We enjoy it both ways.
Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time1 hour
Course: Main Course, Soup
Keyword: Carrot Soup, Carrot Sweet Potato Soup, Fall Soup, Sweet Potato Soup, Vegan, Vegan Soup, Vegetarian
Servings: 4 Quarts

Ingredients

  • 2.5 pounds fresh carrots, to roast
  • 2 pounds sweet potatoes (about 2-3 large ones) to roast
  • 1 large onion – yellow, white or red, diced
  • Fresh herbs, including thyme, oregano, and sage. About a standard clamshell package or small handful each, finely chopped. *Substitute with a tablespoon each of dried herbs, or to taste
  • 1/2 bunch of celery, chopped
  • 4-5 cloves fresh garlic
  • 1 quart vegetable broth
  • 1.5 quarts water
  • 1/2 can of full-fat plain coconut cream (standard 14-15 ounce can size)
  • 1/2 Tbsp yellow curry powder (or more, to taste)
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper
  • 1/4 tsp cumin
  • olive oil or coconut oil, for sautéing

Instructions

  •  Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • Chop sweet potatoes into 2 inch squares, and cut large carrots into 1-inch medallions (or leave small carrots whole).
  • Place carrots and sweet potatoes in glass baking dish (or other roasting pan/baking sheet). Drizzle with olive oil, and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Toss to combine.
  • Roast for about 40 minutes, until at least semi-tender to the fork (they can continue to soften in the pot with other ingredients later)
  • Add a drizzle of oil, and diced garlic and onions to a stock pot, and begin cooking over medium-high heat. After a few minutes, add the chopped celery and cook until slightly translucent.
  • Next, add the chopped herbs and cook for a few minutes before adding the roasted carrots and sweet potatoes to the pot. Stir to combine.
  • Add the called-for broth, water, coconut cream and remaining seasonings to the pot of cooking ingredients.
  • Next simmer on medium-low for 10 to 20 minutes, and ensure carrots and potatoes are soft by this time.
  • Use an immersion blender to thoroughly blend the ingredients until creamy and smooth. Or, transfer the soup into a classic blender to blend in batches as needed.
  • Serve and enjoy! This soup is good for one week in the refrigerator, and is also freezer-friendly for up to a year. Defrost in the refrigerator and re-heat on the stove top.



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17 Comments

  • Suzanne Gallagher

    So delicious!! Awesome way to use a bunch of our carrots that we just harvested. Thanks so much for sharing all that you do! Trying the butternut squash soup next!

  • debbie

    First off – a humungous humungous thank you. Please don’t think illy of me. Is it possible to use dried herbs for your soup. If so how much would you recommend. Thank you!

    • DeannaCat

      Haha, no judgement here! Dried herbs are more concentrated, so simply reduce the called-for amount fresh by 1/3. Good question! I am sure you’re not the only one… Enjoy

  • Whitney

    No immersion blender? No problem!
    I had a bunch of freshly harvested carrots and this was the absolute perfect way to use some of them up!
    I have never really cooked with turmeric and was so excited to finally make something that included it. The taste was phenomenal! I was also a little afraid to be overly generous with the fresh herbs, but Deanna is right – the more the merrier!
    As I mentioned above, I did not have an immersion blender, and while it did require cleaning a few more dishes, it was totally worth it. So if you don’t have one, still make it! I first blended up the pot with a hand blender to mix everything before transferring to my Ninja, since I knew I would have to split the soup in 2 parts. Then put it all back together in the pot and gave it one more good blend with the hand blender. Even after only the hand blender, the soup looked and tasted beautiful as a chunky soup.
    I made the half size and for me and my husband it was enough to put 2-3 dinners in the fridge and another 2-3 in the freezer.
    This has been added to our staple soup list and can be enjoyed year round – no matter where you live! (it was 85° here this week and we had it for dinner and my husband wasn’t even a little mad about it). Thanks again for sharing Deanna!

    • DeannaCat

      Whitney ~ You’re hilarious! Thank you for the stellar, thorough review! We are so happy that you (and hubby) approved of the soup recipe, even in the middle of summer! And YES to using turmeric! It is so, so good for you – and tasty! Expect to see more recipes including it. Thanks again!

  • Samantha Pellissier

    Ah! This recipe was perfect for all our excessive carrots and sweet potatoes (that I planted using your guide)! We put most in our freezer for winter, but kept a batch to eat now. It’s soo tasty and even works great as a cold soup for those hot summer days! Thank you Deanna! Definitely going to make this regularly!

  • Debbi

    Thanks for simple yet tasty recipe! Roasting the carrots and sweet potatoes really brings out the flavor. My family, especially my picky daughter, ate it all up. We left out the celery since my family is not a huge fan of it. This recipe officially replaces an older similar recipe that didn’t include roasted veggies and just wasn’t as good. 😉

    • DeannaCat

      Wohoo! We won over the picky daughter! 🙂 Yes it would be fantastics without the celery as well. I believe we happened to have some in the fridge at the time we whipped this up, but definitely could go either way. Thank you for the feedback!

    • Lilia Beltran

      Made this recipe for the first time today and let’s just say it was extremely hard not to dive in and bathe in it! Sooo creamy and satisfying! With Fall just around the corner, this will definitely be a added to our mealtime rotation. I can totally see some butternut squash being subbed in for sweet potatoes in the future, just cause “FALL”. Today, it was topped off with a little brown rice (just because I had freshly made some) along with parsley, and pepitas. Perfect for today’s cloudy day in the desert – a needed break from 100°+ weather. Bonus: The half recipe made loads for Hubby and I. Make it once and you’re set for several meals! Thanks Deanna!

      • DeannaCat

        Hahaha! Thanks Lilia! Oh don’t you worry, we have our favorite butternut and pumpkin soup coming soon too! 🙂 Thank you for the awesome feedback!

  • Tahnee @ TLC Mini Farm

    I made this soup tonight and it turned out fantastic. All the flavors came together perfectly and I was able to add my own homegrown onion, garlic and herbs which made it that much more satisfying!! Thank you sharing this recipe. I will definitely make it again!

  • Joanne Smith

    I saw your post on instagram and thought I’d look up the recipe. If I remember, I am going to give my own version of this recipe a try and pressure can it. We all enjoy carrot / pumpkin / sweet potato soup in the cooler months, and I like the idea of throwing in a ton of fresh herbs … I have plenty right now 🙂

    Thanks – Joanne from Heritage Homestead

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