Watercress and Sweet Potato Soup

Serves 2

Ingredients

1 Big sweet potato
1 small white sweet onion
1 bunch of watercress
2 sticks celery
2 garlic cloves
1/2 veggie stock cube
500ml water
Handful chilli flakes

Salt and Pepper

Instructions

1) Roast sweet potato in oven (180 deg 35 mins) until soft (wrap in foil while in oven)
2) whilst potato is roasting, dice onion and put in pot with sprinkling of olive oil, salt and pepper
3) cook and sweat onion for a few minutes
4) cut celery and garlic in small pieces and add with onion
5) stir for a few more minutes then add chilli flakes, mix 1 minute more and turn off

When potato done :

6) If potato is organic, cut into small pieces and whack it in with the onion, if not then just take the inside and mix with onion and celery mix
7) Boil 500ml of water
8) pour boiling water in with potato onion mix in pot and add the stock cube
9) Turn on heat and simmer for 30 minutes (add more water if necessary)
10) After the 30 minutes, add all the watercress in the pot saving a bit for garnish
11) Pulse it with a blender until smooth
12) Serve in bowl with fresh watercress as garnish
13) Salt and pepper to taste!

Perfect served with some good toasted rustic bread