This curried carrot soup is chock-full of goodness from plenty of carrots, sweet potato and creamy coconut milk. Comforting and delicious, this vegetable soup recipe will warm ya right up on a cold day!
What’s up? Did my fellow Canadians have a nice Thanksgiving? The next big thing for us is Halloween. How do you feel about Halloween?
It’s lovely seeing all the kiddos in their costumes. However, when that doorbell rings it drives fur baby absolutely bonkers; therefore, it drives me bonkers.
I could put some treats in a bowl with a note saying “take me,” but we all know that would never work. And I always tell myself lies around Halloween, like “Dawn, you’re being so productive buying these treats early.”
Reality? I buy them early and eat most of it before October 31st and then have to buy more. Every year. You too?
Anyway, onto this easy carrot soup, shall we?
Do you know that this curried carrot and sweet potato soup was the very first recipe I ever posted on Girl Heart Food? It was July of 2015. Where does the time go?
I decided to redo the recipe with a couple minor tweaks and retake the pics. Plus, I tweaked the recipe the tiniest bit. I removed the butter and honey, for example, and used coconut oil instead of olive oil to give it a little more coconut oomph.
Plus, the lemon at the end? Just completely brightens the whole dish up!
How To Make This Curried Carrot Soup
Like most of the soups you’ll find here, this creamy carrot soup recipe is pretty easy to prepare. Full details are in the recipe card below, but here are the basics:
- Cook onions for a bit in coconut oil with a touch of salt and pepper.
- Add aromatics, like garlic and ginger, chili flakes and curry paste.
- Next add vegetables, broth and coconut milk.
- After veggies have softened, blend with an immersion blender.
Stir in a touch of lemon juice to brighten (I highly recommend this). So good! - Garnish and enjoy!
Soup Garnish Ideas
You know I love me some garnish! For the finishing touch, I reserved about a tablespoon or so of coconut milk and made a pretty little design on top (totally optional, of course).
After you have the soup portioned, using a spoon, drop a few droplets of coconut milk on top of the soup. Then, using a wooden skewer or wooden toothpick, gently drag through the coconut milk to create a little design.
Other delicious garnishes are:
- Thinly sliced chili pepper
- Chopped cilantro
- Plain Greek yogurt
- Crispy chickpeas
What To Serve With This Soup
- Naan
- Hunk of crusty bread
- Mixed green salad
- A simple sandwich, like a grilled cheese, tomato or curried chickpea salad sandwich
More Easy Soup Recipes
- Butternut Squash Sweet Potato Soup
- Creamy Roasted Cauliflower Leek Soup with Cheddar
- Broccoli Soup With Spinach
If you make this curried carrot and sweet potato soup, be sure to leave a comment below!
This creamy carrot soup recipe was originally published in July 2015 but has been updated.
Curried Carrot Soup With Coconut Milk
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil, or olive oil
- 1 yellow onion, peeled and minced
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 piece fresh ginger, peeled and minced (about a thumb-sized piece)
- ½ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes, or ground cayenne pepper (optional)
- 2 tablespoons red curry paste, use a vegan variety if needed
- 6 carrots, peeled and cut into small slices about ¼-inch thick
- 1 sweet potato, peeled and cut into small cubes
- 3 cups low sodium vegetable broth
- 1 (13.5-ounce) can full-fat, unsweetened coconut milk, reserve about a tablespoon for garnish if you like
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- Chopped cilantro, garnish to taste (optional)
- Sliced chili pepper, garnish to taste (optional)
Instructions
- Heat coconut oil in a large pot over medium-low heat.
- Once coconut oil is melted, add onion, salt and black pepper and cook, stirring often, until onion is softened, about 5 minutes.
- Stir in garlic and ginger and cook for 1 minute. Add chili flakes (if using) and curry paste, stirring to combine and cook for 1 more minute.
- Add carrots, sweet potato and vegetable broth. Stir. Increase the heat to high and bring to a boil. Then reduce the heat (to about medium-low) to maintain a simmer. Cover and cook for 10 minutes.
- Add coconut milk (reserving about 1 tablespoon, if desired, for garnish). Bring the soup to a simmer again and cook, covered, for an additional 10 minutes or until carrot and sweet potato are fork-tender. Turn off heat.
- Using an immersion blender, carefully blend the soup until smooth. Stir in lemon juice. Note: If you want a looser or thinner consistency, add a little more vegetable broth and heat through.
- To serve, divide the soup into bowls and garnish (if desired) with reserved coconut milk, cilantro and chili pepper. Enjoy!
A note on times provided: appliances vary, any prep and/or cook times provided are estimates only.
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Tried this recipe?
If you do make this recipe, thank you!! It would mean so much if you could leave a comment below. Love to know how you enjoyed it, and it helps other readers too!
karrie @ Tasty Ever After
I remember this recipe when you first posted it!!! Love the new pics and the tweaks and how you made little flower/hearts with the coconut milk. You so clever girl! 😉 I’m going to be completely honest: I think it’s weird you guys have Thanksgiving before Halloween. What’s up with dat? Crazy Canadians. lol! You should come visit me for our Thanksgiving in November and have 2 turkey dinners this year! OMG, Gracie & Nola go CRAZY whenever someone rings our doorbell so we always have to put out the candy in bowls, but then the first jerk kid that comes up to it steals it all. This year I’m putting it out a little at a time cos I’m smarter than those dang kids! hahaha!
Girl Heart Food
Good memory on ya 😉 Thanks so much, sweets! That would be amazing! Loves me some turkey 🙂
Luci's Morsels
The flavor profile of this soup sounds amazing! Sweet vegetables like carrots and sweet potatoes pair so beautifully with spices like curry and make an excellent dish, so tasty!
Girl Heart Food
Thank you Luci! It’s one of my faves 🙂
Jenny | The Baking Skillet
Its only my second Halloween and I am wayyy to excited and too neurotic to eat the candy (what if the stores run out of candy and I don’t have any left for distributing!!) This is a lovely soup Dawn. SO appropriate for the chilly days ahead…
Girl Heart Food
Haha! That makes sense 😉 Thanks so much, Jenny!
Marissa
We used to live in a neighborhood where we got HUNDREDS of trick-or-treaters, but now we get maybe a dozen. It used to get a little overwhelming in our old neighborhood, but now I wish we had more…anyway.
Love love the flavors in this soup, Dawn! A must try for fall!!
Happy Weekend (almost!)
Girl Heart Food
Thank you so much, Marissa 🙂 It really is! Happy (almost) weekend to you too…we’re thisclose 😉
Nicoletta @sugarlovespices
I’m sure I’d love this curried carrot sweet potato soup!! It looks creamy and comforting, perfect to warm up the chilly nights we’re already having here. I love the touch of lemon at the end and that beautiful swirl of coconut cream. Pinned!
Girl Heart Food
I’m sure you would too!! Getting cold here too! Thanks so much, my friend, for the sweet comment and Pin 🙂 Have a wonderful weekend!
Milena | Craft Beering
So cool this was your first recipe post! And – happy belated two year blog anniversary! Not sure how I missed it. I would love to eat this soup by the outside fire in the fall, served in a tin cup… OMG, it would be awesome. We are usually on vacation for Halloween because our anniversary is a few days before it and we just go somewhere for a week or ten days. The local kids probably feel disappointed. Oh well, cannot please everyone. Have a great weekend Dawn!
Girl Heart Food
Thanks so much, Milena!! Oh, in a tin cup is brilliant!! Have a great weekend too, my friend 🙂
Sarah @ Champagne Tastes
If it ever cools off, I’ll start making soup again! This sounds delicious!
Girl Heart Food
Thanks so much, Sarah! It’s getting chilly around here so soup it is 😉
annie@ciaochowbambina
Yum! This is my kind of soup, especially as the days get chillier! I like the modifications you made and can imagine the brightness from the lemon at the end! We haven’t had more than a handful of kids to our house in many years so we don’t really need to have that much candy…we don’t need to! 😉 Nice post, my friend! Gets me excited for everything fall!! Have a great weekend, dear! XOXO
Girl Heart Food
Thank you Annie! The lemon really does add a little somethin’ somethin’ 😉 Have a great weekend too! XOXO
Kelsie | the itsy-bitsy kitchen
Oh holy cow. This is my kinda soup! Like a hug in a bowl :). I feel the same as you about Halloween; Cookie just loses it so I’m tempted just to give all the candy I bought to the first trick or treaters who show, then turn off my lights and go to bed! Have a great weekend, Dawn!
Girl Heart Food
Yay! Thanks Kelsie! Sounds like a plan to me 😉 Have a wonderful weekend too!
Miriam
Halloween is great – love when the kids ring, all dressed up hoping for a few sweets but I can imagine that it is different for you with your furry kid not appreciating the constant ringing of the doorbell 🙂 It is nice that you reposted this recipe, I tend to tweak my recipes every now and then and thought that it is such a good idea to share these little adjustments. There is something so comforting about a hot bowl of soup this time of the year! Have a lovely weekend, Dawn!
Girl Heart Food
I agree, Miriam! So comforting in cold weather 🙂 Have a lovely weekend too!
Sues
I’m totally the same way with Halloween… Maybe I’ll enjoy it more if I have kids some day, but for now, I’ll take the candy and a hard pass on everything else. Though I admit I do love to dress my dog up… but she does NOT love the doorbell ringing and all the people at the house. In any event, this soup looks SO delicious and perfect for the chilly weather we now have in Boston!
Girl Heart Food
Love dressing up the fur baby too!! Too fun (well for me, anyway…maybe not for him, lol). Thanks Sues 🙂
Mary Ann | The Beach House Kitchen
Looks like you have the same problem as I do with eating the Halloween candy when you buy it early Dawn! It never works! I already broke into the bag, and I’ve been pilfering Snickers for days! UGH! I NEED the yummy soup to get me on the healthier track! Love the new photos. And that photo with the spoonful of soup…I’m drooling!
Girl Heart Food
Haha! Glad I’m not the only one 😉 Thanks so much for the kind words, Mary Ann! Have a lovely weekend 🙂
Jennifer @ Seasons and Suppers
Beautiful! I love curried soups and especially the orange ones 🙂 Love this!
Girl Heart Food
Thanks so much, Jennifer! Me too 🙂
David @ Spiced
So I definitely fall on the pro-Halloween side here! I love embracing the spooky, ghoulish side of the holiday. What can I say? I guess it takes me back to my childhood days of campouts and ghost stories in the backyard. 🙂 But the trick or treat side of Halloween has never been my thing. The dogs go crazy with the doorbell, and now that Robbie is around, he’s probably asleep by the time the trick or treating gets going. So I think we might just have to turn our light out this year. We left a bowl out on the porch last year, but I’m pretty sure the first kid just took it all. Speaking of taking it all, I want to take this entire pot of soup and run off down the street with it. Is that allowed?
Girl Heart Food
Must be super fun with Robbie, though, dressing him up 🙂 Sure, it’s allowed! This soup is too good to share 😉
Cheyanne @ No Spoon Necessary
Halloween! I used to LOVE it, but now I’m a little impartial. The last two years we lived in a rural area so we never got trick or treaters, but this year, since we moved into our new home, im not really sure what to expect! I’m assuming we will get some, but I’m not sure how many? Aaaanyways, I am totally digging this soup!! So much flava!!! This looks soup-erb, my dear! Cheers! Xoxo
Girl Heart Food
Better be prepared though- and if you don’t get many, then at least you’ll have a bunch of treats to eat 😉 Thanks girl! xoxo