Sweet Potato and Chickpea Soup (in a Soup Maker)

This sweet potato and chickpea soup is the perfect recipe to fill you up for lunch.

It’s hearty and filling but still light enough that you won’t feel weighed down.

What You Need

This simple soup maker recipe can be made with minimal ingredients. I made this soup in the Ninja Soup Maker, but it can be adapted for any soup maker.

For more detailed instructions or to print out this recipe, please scroll down to the recipe card at the bottom.

• Onion and garlic – I used one onion and three cloves of garlic
• Chickpeas – I used one can of drained chickpeas (400g)
• Sweet Potato – 400g – 600g sweet potatoes. The amount you use will depend on the size of your soup maker and how thick you like your soup. I didn’t peel the sweet potatoes; I just cleaned them. You can peel them if you prefer.
• 1 tsp dried mixed herbs (or you can substitute this for some curry or chilli powder)
• 1 vegetable stock pot plus hot water up to the line – it worked out to around 800ml of liquid
• Optional seasoning

Making It

As with many of the recipes I make, this one requires minimal preparation, just the way I like it!

Start by chopping the onions up, or if you have the Ninja Soup Maker you can use the chop function to do it. You can also use frozen chopped onions for even less preparation time 🙂

I don’t peel the sweet potatoes, I just give them a really good wash and then chop them up into roughly the same size as each other.

My sweet potatoes weighed in at 500g which ended up being quite a thick soup so use less if you prefer a thinner consistency, or, stir in some more hot water or stock at the end.

Drain and rinse the tin of chickpeas and then you’re ready to add all the ingredients to the soup maker. I usually add the stock powder/pot/cube directly to the soup maker and then add as much hot water to the jug as I can. For this soup it worked out at around 800ml.

Place the lid on the soup maker and then set the soup maker off on the smooth soup function.

At the end of the cycle carefully remove the lid and check the consistency. If the soup is too thick – which it sometimes can be when using sweet potato and chickpeas – pour in some hot water or more stock, put the lid back on and blend it for about 5 to 10 seconds until it is well mixed.

Check the taste and add any seasoning if required.

I hope you enjoy this soup maker recipe; let me know in the comments if you make it!

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More Soup Maker Recipes

If you are looking for more soup maker recipes with sweet potatoes or chickpeas in them, check out these for inspiration;

• Jamaican Jerk Sweet Potato Soup
• Carrot and Sweet Potato Soup
• Sweet Potato and Lentil Soup
• Sweet Potato and Bacon Soup
• Curried Butternut Squash and Chickpea Soup
• Roasted Red Pepper and Chickpea Soup
• Chicken and Chickpea Soup
• Spinach and Chickpea Soup
• Moroccan Chickpea Soup