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Vegan Potato Soup

Author Casey Colodny
Prep: 10 minutes
Cook: 30 minutes
Total: 40 minutes
Servings: 4 people
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Get ready to cozy on up with a big bowl of this easy and healthy Vegan Potato & Corn Soup. A vegan cashew cream base is flavored with nutritional yeast, dry sherry, and spice to compliment the tasty bites of potato and sweet corn.

Ingredients

Cashew Cream

  • ½ cup raw cashews
  • 1¾ cups water

Potato Corn Chowder

  • ¼ cup olive oil
  • 2 cups yellow onion chopped (~1 large onion)
  • 2 cup cups cashew cream (from above)
  • 3 cups baby yellow potatoes skin on, chopped to bite size
  • 2 15oz cans whole kernel corn rinsed & drained
  • 2 Tbsp tomato paste
  • ½ cup nutritional yeast
  • ¼ cup dry sherry
  • 3 cups water
  • 1½ tsp salt + black pepper to taste

Instructions

Cashew Cream

  • Start by making your cashew cream. In Vitamix blend together the raw cashews and water.
    Top down shot of a blender with raw cashews and water to make vegan cashew cream.
  • Blend on high for 5 minutes and set aside.
    Top down shot of a blender with fresh made cashew cream.

Vegan Corn & Potato Bisque

  • In a large pot, heat olive oil on stovetop over medium heat.
  • Cook onions in olive oil on medium low until onions are clear, approximately 3-4 minutes.
    A large pot is filled with chopped yellow onions and yellow potatoes for vegan potato soup. There are small bowls with the other ingredients sitting beside the large pot.
  • Stir in your cashew cream, potatoes, corn, tomato paste, nutritional yeast, sherry, water, salt, and bring to a low boil.
    A large pot is filled with chopped yellow onions, yellow potatoes, whole kernel corn, and a blender pours in cashew cream. There's a blue and white striped linen beneath the pot.
  • Simmer uncovered on medium low for 20 - 25 minutes, making sure to stir occasionally as soup tends to foam up.
  • Add black pepper and additional salt to taste.
    A close up shot of vegan potato corn chowder in a blue ceramic pot. The chowder is a golden hue with large bites of potato and corn kernels. There's black pepper sprinkled overtop as well.

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