The Live Green Smoothie Diet

Warm Live "Spicy Cabbage & Sweet Potato" Soup

Earthy, hearty, spicy, grounding, comforting, fast, and cheap, this soup recipe uses leftovers of white cabbage with a couple pieces of sweet potato, combined with sweet paprika and hot cayenne chili powder to both warm you up and calm you down.

Literally prepare and clean up after this soup within just a few minutes. A warm and satisfying raw-foods meal could hardly be much easier… And the ingredients used are basic staples of a good raw foods kitchen — nothing weird or exotic.

Warm Live “Spicy Cabbage & Sweet Potato” Soup Recipe

makes one large serving

• 1-1/2 cups loosely packed  white cabbage leaves
• roughly 1/3 cup raw sweet potato pieces
• 1/4 cup hemp seeds
• 1 small clove garlic
• 1/2 teaspoon sweet paprika
• 1/8-1/4 teaspoon cayenne (chili powder), to taste
• 1 tablespoon cold-pressed olive oil (optional — the soup is quite rich without oil)
• quality salt to taste (such as Himalayan Crystal  salt or Celtic Sea salt)
• fresh-ground black pepper
• 2 cups hot water

Put all ingredients except water in blender.

Add hot water (not boiling… just get the steam going — if you’re heating up in a pan, you could still be able to put your hand in the water without cooking it off).

Leave corner of blender lid open to allow steam to escape and blend on low setting. Suggestion: Know before-hand how your blender will behave with this open lid situation, so that you don’t end up experiencing “cabbage rain”.

(Alternatively, you could put all ingredients in a tall bowl and blend with a hand-blender.)

Eat right away (it cools off quickly!), either as is or garnish with fresh greens, scallions, pine nuts, or chopped pistachios! Fresh corn off the cob would also be excellent in this soup, with a bit of cilantro!

If you’re not doing “all raw”, crunch up some organic tortilla chips and mix into the soup for added texture, flavor, and “weight” to the meal. My favorite with this soup is the “chili-lime” flavor by Kettle brand.

Bon apetit!

[Note about salt: Don't under-salt, but at the same time be aware that salt, garlic, and onions in warm live soups -- as in all raw foods -- "go further" than in cooked food recipes. Their taste tends to come through much more prominently!]

Warm Live "Spicy Cabbage & Sweet Potato" Soup