Sweet potato soup, nectarine, ginger biscuit, honeycomb

Name: Sweet potato soup, nectarine, ginger biscuit, honeycomb
Ingredients: 1.6 kg white flesh sweet potatoes – peeled and cubed; 100 g butter; 12 g grated ginger; 2 white onions – finely diced; 8 nectarines – must be ripe or even slightly overripe; salt to taste; 600 ml water; 800 ml chicken stock; 40 g fresh beeswax honey – 5g per serving; 8 sweet potato crisps – broken into shards; 8 crumbled ginger biscuit stones – 1 per serving; 300 ml water; 16 leaves purple basil – 2 per serving; 2 nectarines – skin removed and diced into medium-sized cubes

Preparation info

Serves
8
Starter Portions

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Mile 8

By David Higgs

Published 2018

About

The play of flavour with the sweet nectarine and the savoury sweet potato is delicious. Then add the honeycomb and the crunchy crumbled ginger biscuit stone and you have this crazy ‘simple’ soup that is now so complex.

Ingredients

Sweet potato soup

2 white onions – finely diced
12 g grated ginger
100 g

Starter

Method

Gently cook the onions and ginger in the butter – avoid colouring. When cutting the sweet potatoes into large cubes, keep them the same size to ensure even cooking time. Add the sweet potatoes to the pot, immediately followed by the stock and water. Simmer until the potatoes are soft, and blend in a Thermomix jug while hot. The soup should be a thick pouring consistency. Season to taste with sa