Sausage and Sweet Potato Soup

This sausage and sweet potato soup recipe is hearty, warming, and simple to make! Flavorful sausage and melt-in-your-mouth sweet potatoes will be a hit with the whole family. 

This soup is really easy to throw together – the perfect thing to make as the busy holiday season approaches. It makes yummy leftovers, and it’s the kind of soup that works great as the type of thing you’d take to work for lunch. It’s very satisfying. 

It’s straightforward to make, and really the only somewhat time-consuming part is peeling and chopping those sweet potatoes. Once that’s done, though, you just simmer the soup for 15-20 minutes, and then dinner’s ready. 🙂 

Pro tip: I made this an Italian sausage and sweet potato soup, but you could sub for another kind of sausage. Even something like turkey sausage or kielbasa (Polish smoked sausage) would work. 

Recipe notes:

• The quantity of sausage or sweet potatoes listed doesn’t have to be exactly adhered to – anything in the general ballpark works.
• Want to add some spice to this soup? Use hot Italian sausage and/or add some red pepper flakes to spice it up.
• This soup is very forgiving – you can definitely add more veggies or swap out ones you don’t like. I love the combo of sausage and bell peppers, though, so I’d definitely keep those in. Adding a bit of spinach or kale towards the end would be delicious too.
• This soup eats like a meal, but you could definitely kick it up a notch by serving it with some garlic bread or a nice crusty sourdough!

More soup recipes you may like:

• Zuppa Toscana (Sausage, Bacon, Potato, and Kale Soup)
• Easy Instant Pot Sweet Potato Soup
• Sausage and Vegetable Soup
• Spicy Chipotle Sweet Potato Soup
• Crockpot Italian Sausage Soup
• Sausage, Kale, and Gnocchi Soup

Hope you enjoy this sweet potato sausage soup!

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Sausage and Sweet Potato Soup

This sausage and sweet potato soup recipe is hearty, warming, and simple to make! Flavorful sausage and melt-in-your-mouth sweet potatoes will be a hit with the whole family. 

Course Soup

Cuisine American

Keyword sausage and sweet potato soup

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Total Time 45 minutes

Servings 6

Author Salt & Lavender

Ingredients

• 17.6 ounces Italian sausages crumbled (see note)
• 1/2 medium onion chopped
• 2 cloves garlic minced
• 2 sticks celery chopped
• 1 red bell pepper chopped
• 1.5 pounds sweet potatoes peeled & diced
• 4 cups chicken broth
• 2 cups water
• Salt & pepper to taste

Instructions

1. Take the sausage meat out of its casings and crumble it into a large soup pot. Cook it over medium-high heat for 5 minutes, until browned. Spoon out most of the fat.

2. Add the onion and garlic to the pot and cook for 5 minutes.

3. Stir in the broth, water, red pepper, celery, and sweet potatoes. Increase the heat to high and bring the soup to a boil.

4. Once it's boiling, reduce the heat so it's simmering, and cover the pot with the lid slightly ajar. Cook for 15-20 minutes or until the sweet potatoes have softened.

5. Season with salt & pepper as needed and serve immediately.

Recipe Notes

• I used a 5-pack of Johnsonville's mild Italian sausages. Feel free to use anything in the ballpark weight-wise. Or use ground sausage meat. 
• I used 3 smallish sweet potatoes. Since sweet potato sizes vary so much and are so subjective, it's easiest to just use the scales at the grocery store and weigh them.