Potato-Sunchoke Soup

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I absolutely love this potato-sunchoke soup I made last night, despite using absolutely no salt.  I used the following ingredients:

-potatoes

-sunchokes

-1 garlic bulb

-garlic powder

-unsweetened plain soy milk

-half-sharp hungarian paprika

I washed the potatoes and suchokes carefully to get all the dirt off them.  Had to check the sunchokes carefully because they're knobbly and so they can look really clean even when dirt is still stuck between the knobbly bits. I chopped the potatoes and sunchokes up (I found most of the dirt on the sunchokes after chopping them, so they were washed both before and after chopping). 

Then I cooked the potatoes and sunchokes in just enough water to cover them.  My goal was to avoid draining the water since it gets a lot of the flavor from the vegetables. When they were soft enough, I mashed them in the water.  I put a few spoonfuls of some garlic powder and the paprika in the pot. I poured the soy milk in. I cut up the garlic bulb (which was sprouting, so I cut the sprout up and used it too).  I sauteed the chopped garlic in olive oil.  Then I poured the sauteed garlic and olive oil in the soup.