sweet potato, vegetable and rice spicy soup

111 grams onion chopped
2 clove of garlic
89 grams large carrot finely chopped
186 grams of leek finely chopped
331 sweet potato finely chopped
2 red chili's finely chopped
2 Tbsp of tomato puree
2 Tsp of paprika
salt and black pepper
1.5 liters of vegetable stock
181 grams of basmalti rice

Cook the basmalti rice in a separate saucepan.
Then add the onion, garlic, carrot, leek, chili's, and paprika to a pan and cook until soft, then add the tomato puree and sweet potato and stir until evenly coated.
Add the stock, bring to the boil and then reduce the heat and simmer for 1 hour. Then roughly blend with a hand blender, still keeping some chunks, season with salt and pepper to taste.
Add the rice, bring to the boil and then reduce the heat cover with pan lid and cook for a further half an hour.

Serving Size: 4, 425 grams servings

Number of Servings: 4

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user PAULAHARRIS2.