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Spicy Coconut Sweet Potato Soup with Collard Greens and Crispy Tempeh

On page 230 of Fresh Food Fast in the winter meal section, we found this awesome soup.  It really seems a lot like a curry, actually. It has a really nice, rich flavor.  The fact that it has sweet potatoes and collard greens is always nice so that we get  lots of vitamin A and K.  We are always looking for more dark greens in our meals because of they are so rich in calcium as well.

I accidentally over-fried the second half batch of tempeh, so we made due with half of recipe’s amount.  This seemed like an adequate amount.  The whole meal went together really quickly and easily.  I will need to start the kids food earlier, because the soup and everything was done and we waited a while for the kids food to be done.  I left out the jalapeño specifically so that the kids would try the collards, but that didn’t seem to work- so next time that spice is going in and we can figure out something else for the kids greens!

The kids had sweet potato fries and Quorn nuggets.  They were pretty into these two things and didn’t have any of the collards.  We will have to do something to make them more appealing, since they really didn’t have or try any.  They are typically into kale and spinach if there is honey mustard or something, but raw collards might not fly.  Maybe quickly cooked as simple side?  They did eat their weight in sweet potatoes.   We had rice with the soup, so that is always a hit with the kids- but again, not compared to sweet potatoes.

I could really see this being a family favorite.