Ham and Sweet Potato Soup
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Cooking:
20 min.
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Servings per container:
8
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Ingredients for - Ham and Sweet Potato Soup

1. Chicken stock - 5 cups
2. Peeled and diced sweet potatoes - 3 ½ cups
3. Diced cooked ham - ¾ cup
4. Diced celery - ⅓ cup
5. Finely chopped onion - ⅓ cup
6. Chopped green bell pepper - ½ cup
7. Chopped carrot - ¼ cup
8. Corn - ¼ cup
9. Chopped garlic - 1 tablespoon
10. Dried basil - 1 teaspoon
11. Dried parsley flakes - 1 teaspoon
12. Ground black pepper, or to taste - 1 teaspoon
13. Salt - ½ teaspoon
14. Butter - 5 tablespoons
15. All-purpose flour - 6 tablespoons
16. Milk - 2 cups
17. Shredded Cheddar cheese - ¾ cup

How to cook deliciously - Ham and Sweet Potato Soup

1. Stage

Combine chicken stock, sweet potatoes, ham, celery, and onion in a stockpot; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and cook until sweet potatoes are tender, 10 to 15 minutes. Stir bell pepper, carrot, corn, garlic, basil, parsley flakes, black pepper, and salt into soup and simmer until vegetables are softened, 5 to 10 minutes.

2. Stage

Melt butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat; whisk flour into butter using a fork. Cook and stir mixture until thickened, about 1 minute. Slowly stir milk into butter-flour mixture until completely smooth; continue cooking and stirring over medium-low heat until thickened, 4 to 5 more minutes. Stir Cheddar cheese into milk mixture until melted and smooth.

3. Stage

Stir milk-Cheddar cheese mixture into soup; cook until thickened and heated through, about 5 minutes.