Carrot Ginger Soup Recipe

Is the 314 kcal equal to 314 cal. Is this an international measurement? I’m trying to watch my calories and wanted to calculate it correctly.
Thank you!
Love your recipes by the way and this soup was amazing 🙂

When are you supposed to add the curry powder to the soup mix as your recipe doesn’t say?

Let me start by sharing that I refused to eat sweet potatoes until I was in my late 20’s. The way they were always presented to me would make my mouth water, as if I was going to vomit. It was bad. And I’m not a picky eater! I will eat and try ANYTHING, even as a child. I loved cooked beets (with salt & butter), dandelion greens, and cooked spinach. I ate cooked or raw onions and tomato preserves. All things that many children hate. But not sweet potatoes. Even bribery wouldn’t work. About 20 years ago (I’m 47 now) a co-worker suggested I give sweet potatoes a try; he said they were the ‘healthiest vegetable’. So, I found a way, adding salt, butter and garlic. They actually weren’t too bad. It turns out that brown sugar (which I also like) makes these potatoes sickeningly sweet, to me. LESSON: If you hated something as a child, give it try as an adult…maybe there’s a better way to prepare it. Maybe the person who cooked for you only knew one recipe for said food. Last week I learned that my dad has only ever had beets pickled. I had only ever had them cooked with butter and salt. I thought I didn’t like pickled beets or sauerkraut, but what I was basing this on was the fact that my MOTHER didn’t like pickled foods. I was in my 20’s before I ever had them. Back to the sweet potato…3 years ago I steamed a sweet potato with a beet, both cubed and skinned, and loved it. Today, I made THIS recipe. YUMMY! Here’s what I did.

I used 2 leeks (I’ll saute them for less time next round). I omitted the ginger, only because I forgot to purchase it. I also added an additional tsp of salt at the end. I only simmered mine for about 20 minutes, as the potato was definitely soft enough. The recipe yielded about 3 quarts. Two quarts I put in the fridge as is. The third quart I let cool, then pulsed in a blender with 2 large spoonfuls of Fage yogurt. OMG. This is delicious! I may run the first 2 quarts through the blender as well! This is now my favorite sweet potato recipe! Thanks Katie, and Whitney!