Broccoli Cheese Sweet Potato Soup: Kid Friendly Vegetables!

I know Sara just posted a sweet potato soup recipe but here is a veggie one I made last night. This is an adaptation to a recipe for potato soup I found online. I really like sweet potatoes so I am constantly using them instead of regular baking potatoes then I wanted to use a carrot I had lying around and since there was so much orange I felt like adding some green so I picked up some broccoli.

Vegetarian Sweet Potato Soup

Ingredients
 1/2 sweet onion diced
3 cloves garlic minced
2 large sweet potatoes cubed
1 stalk of broccoli chopped
1 carrot chopped
1 bay leaf
salt and pepper to taste
1c cheese
2tsp olive oil
3c Vegetable broth


Cookware
Large soup pan
Food processor or blender

Directions
In large soup pan heat olive oil, onions and garlic until onion is soft, then add sweet potatoes, stir for a few minutes (basically as long as it takes to chop carrot and broccoli), add carrots and broccoli, heat for about 3 to 4 minutes then add broth, bay leaf and salt and pepper, bring to a boil then let simmer for 20 minutes or until potatoes are very soft
Remove bay leaf then transfer soup to food processor or blender and mix until smooth
Transfer back to pot and add cheese, stir until melted (I forgot to do this step and just added cheese on top of each bowl of soup, it still turned out delicious)

Serves 4-5 (more or less depending on how big your appetite is)

This recipe would be a nice side dish also since it has a squash consistency. You can turn it into a sweet dish too by adding some cinnamon and brown sugar, maybe some marshmallows......