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Sausage and Sweet Potato Soup

Name: Sausage and Sweet Potato Soup
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 21 min
Total time: 31 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 1 (14-ounce) package smoked sausage, sliced; 1 medium onion, diced; 1/2 red bell pepper, diced; 2 garlic cloves, minced; 6 cups chicken broth; 2 cups leftover sweet potato casserole, (no marshmallows); 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme; 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper; 1/4 teaspoon black pepper; 3 cups baby kale leaves or baby spinach

Sausage and Sweet Potato Soup is perfect for using up leftover sweet potato casserole. It's savory and a little sweet and spicy!

Prep10 min
Cook21 min
Total31 min
Serves4
Rating5.0

Sausage and Sweet Potato Soup is perfect for using up leftover sweet potato casserole. I love breathing new life into Thanksgiving leftovers and this Sausage and Sweet Potato Soup I enjoy just as much, if not more, than the original sweet potato casserole.

Sausage and Sweet Potato Soup Recipe

It has lots of smoked sausage slices and a full 2 cups of sweet potato casserole mixed into the broth really gives it some depth of flavor and even some creaminess even though there’s no cream added. I add some baby kale at the end for some fresh greens in the soup. Baby spinach would work well too.

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Some cayenne pepper balances out the sweetness of the sweet potato casserole and gives it just a little kick. You may want to add more or less depending on how sweet your sweet potato casserole is.

Reader Comment

Robert says, “I made this today and just tried it. It is absolutely delicious and I absolutely will make it for my family. The only variation I made was to add some white cannellini beans. Thank you. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Recipe Tip

You can use any sweet potato casserole, just make sure if it has a marshmallow topping, you scrape it off. You can also use mashed sweet potatoes instead of sweet potato casserole. It would be equally delicious!