Creamy Vegan Sweet Potato and Corn Chowder

Directions

1. Place sweet potatoes into a large pot and cover with salted water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until tender, 10 to 15 minutes. Drain potatoes and reserve 2 1/2 cups of potato water. Chop 2 sweet potatoes and Yukon Gold potato when cool enough to handle; reserve remaining sweet potato for a later step.
2. Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat; cook and stir celery and sweet onion in the hot oil until onion begins to brown, about 10 minutes. Stir 1 chopped sweet potato, chopped Yukon Gold potato, and garlic into mixture. Cook and stir until garlic begins to turn golden, about 8 minutes. Stir corn and 1 chopped sweet potato into onion and celery mixture. Cover pot and cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
3. Pour reserved 2 1/2 cups drained potato cooking water into mixture. Place remaining sweet potato and ginger into a food processor and pulse several times to chop; puree and stir into vegetables. Stir soy milk, vegetable broth, parsley, rosemary, sea salt, black pepper, and bay leaf into mixture and bring soup to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer 5 minutes.
4. Whisk flour into soup, stir until thickened, and remove soup from heat.

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Lyyle

Feb. 14, 2013

"A good basic idea but too many pots and too much fuss. There is no need to boil the potatoes first. Just use the second step... saute aromatics in oil, add diced potatoes and corn. Add liquid, cook ti..." See morell potatoes are tender. Press into the pot with the back of your spoon to mash up for thickening or take a little out and blend then put back in. No flour needed. Besides the flour isn't used correctly in the first place... should be added to the fat. This application is correct for corn starch. It shouldn't take 30 minutes start to finish. I replaced the Yukon potato with finely diced carrot and the soy milk with coconut milk (added at the end,) but that's just personal dietary preference. Made a very nice lunch!"

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sueb

Feb. 24, 2013

"Wonderful to have celery and ginger in this chowder! We enjoyed the blend of flavors. I did not peel the potatoes. I used my hand blender to mash part of the potatoes, and did not even need the flou..." See morer for this thick hearty chowder!"