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How are those New Year’s resolutions working out for ya? 😉 I’m always amazed by the drastic increase of interest in healthy recipes at the beginning of a new year, but the most shocking change comes between December 24th and December 26th. It’s like people are just waiting for Christmas Day to be over before they “get serious” again. I can relate – I’ve been there, done that. I definitely indulged a little bit over the holidays myself, but I’m ready to get back on track. More or less, I’m just tired of all the heavy food. Even if a lot of what I ate was healthy, holiday food just tends to be really rich and calorie-dense, and I’m ready for some lighter fare. This quick and easy Creamy Sweet Potato Bisque is the perfect solution.
You know what’s awesome? This bisque doesn’t take any special ingredients, so it’s perfect for people who are just starting out on a healthy eating plan like Trim Healthy Mama but haven’t amassed many new ingredients yet! I did use a little bit of stevia in this soup to sweeten it up just a tad, but the sweet potato already makes the soup sweet so you can either just leave the stevia out or substitute an equivalent amount of a sweetener that you can find at your local grocery store. This sweetener conversion chart will show you how.
While we’re talking about sweeteners and newbies, if you’re new to alternative sweeteners and are wondering what you should get, click here for some advice in that area.
Other pages you might be interested in if you’re just starting out on THM (or healthy eating in general):
- My recipe index, where you can find all my recipes grouped by category in a nifty picture index.
- Another picture index where you can find my recipes grouped by fuel type, allergy info, and neat categories like “Soups”, “Single Serve”, “Peanut Butter”, “Pies”, etc.
- Substitution FAQs and Baking Tips
- Sample menu index
- “What’s on My Plate?” index
- Trim Healthy Tips index
Back to the soup. It’s important to get protein into every meal, and the protein source in this soup is the cottage cheese. The 1/3 cup of cottage cheese in this soup adds 8g of protein, so if you’re not eating any other protein source with the soup, you may wish to add a scoop of collagen or gelatin to hold you over longer.
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You may also enjoy:
- Starting THM
- my recipe index
- my recipes grouped by fuel type, allergy info, and theme
- all my soup recipes
Want other great soup recipes? My cookbook has a boatload of them!
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- 1 c. baked sweet potato (I left the skin on mine)
- 1 c. water
- ⅓ c. low-fat cottage cheese
- 2 tsp. apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp. chicken bouillon
- ¼ tsp. each cinnamon, garlic powder
- 1/32 tsp. (1 doonk) THM Pure Stevia Extract Powder
- Dash each ginger, black pepper
- Blend all the ingredients together in a high-powered blender for 1-2 minutes or until completely smooth (I used a Vitamix). If your blender has a soup setting, you can use that; or you can blend everything smooth, then heat in the microwave or on the stove.
- Feel free to multiply this easy soup for your family!
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I really liked this very much, my 5 year old not so much. The bad part was I didn’t have any chicken flavor so it would have probably been better. I tripled the recipe since I was making it for our supper, and there are at least 5 cups left over.
If I was making this for someone who is dairy free, how much collagen and/or gelatin would I use instead of the cottage cheese? Also, if not using the cottage cheese, would this freeze well if made in bulk?
I am not a big sweet potato fan, but this was delicious!
Without the cottage cheese it won’t be as creamy, but you’re welcome to try adding 2-3 tablespoons of collagen (depending on how much protein you want) in its place. Most soups freeze well, but I haven’t tried it with this particular one. I’m glad you liked it!
Can I boil or steam the sweet potatoe instead of baking it?
I’m sure that would work.
Could you use butternut squash in place of sweet potato? Thanks!
I’ve never tried, but it sounds good! I would add another smaller carb source on the side if you want a solid THM E since butternut squash doesn’t have as many carbs as sweet potatoes do.
Any suggestions for dairy-free? I am lactose intolerant and can’t do cottage cheese. Thanks
In that case, I would just leave it out and add some collagen or gelatin for protein. 🙂
Any suggestions for a replacement for cottage cheese? I live in Ecuador and can’t get it here. Yogurt maybe??
That should work!
Can I use a cup of chic broth instead of the water nd cube?
That should be fine. 🙂
This soup is amazing. Instead of water/bullion combo I used chicken bone broth.
I cooked all my sweet potatoes in my Instant Pot then mashed & froze them. I’m going to pull out a bag to cook this weekend and was looking for a good recipe. This will definitely be one I try!
Oops I forgot to rate it 🙂
Delicious!!!!! I suppose you could do this with Butternut as well, but I do not know if it then would be a FP or still an E as I get mixed carb counts in searching between these 2 veggies.
Yes, you probably could! It would probably be classified as a very light E, if that helps…lol.
Having this right now. This is so easy to make and very yummy! Another great recipe!
Ooh, I definitely want to try this!
I couldn’t wait for dinner so I’m having this for lunch – it is delicious!! It’s so rich and creamy. It makes a lot, that’s a good thing! I’ll probably save some of it to have for a snack sometime. Thanks for sharing such a great recipe!
I’m so glad you liked it, Melissa!
Briana, is there a healthy boullion you recommend? Thanks!
Not really. It’s not something I’m personally very picky on because such small amounts are used (I kind of put it in the condiments category – anything with around 1g net carbs per serving is fair game). I know Better Than Bouillon is good quality. 🙂
Yum! This looks delicious! I’m pretty sure I’ll be fixing this for my dinner. Or maybe my lunch. 🙂