Receta Chili spiked sweet potato and butternut squash soup

“Sweety sweet potatoes, how I wonder what you are?”

Through out my life I was eating pink-skinned sweet potato with creamy flesh inside. That is the way I could identify a sweet potato from other similar roots. Then one day someone pointed out brown-skinned or more precisely beige-skinned sweet potato, usually called “shakarkand” in Hindi. “Shakar” means sweet and “kand” means root. Pink-skinned sweet potatoes are not common in every part of India. So whenever we catch a glimpse of pink skinned sweet potatoes, our eyes brightened up instantly. Apart from enjoying them as roasted snacks in the evening, a quick long-distance call to a distant relative followed soon enough to get the secret recipe of making sweet potato jamuns or…