We had a big beautiful sweet potato left over from making fries awhile back and I decided to make a soup also using quinoa. My family loves my soup creations. Amber adores homemade soup anytime of the year. She is not a big fan of canned soups but put a bowl of any kind of homemade soup in front of her and she is very happy.
We had the little panko topping over at friends of ours Deb and Dave’s on a fabulous gazpacho soup and I thought it would add something to this soup too! So easy to make and adds that extra umph!!
Roasted Sweet Potato and Quinoa Soup
Author: Tara Noland
Recipe type: Soup
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Serves: 4
This is where healthy and tasting great meet!!
Ingredients
- 1 very large sweet potato
- ½ large sweet onion, diced
- 2 carrots, diced
- 1 large clove garlic, minced
- 3 Tbsp. olive oil, divided
- Sea salt and pepper to taste
- 900 ml. chicken or vegetable stock
- 1 cup cooked quinoa
- ½ cup Panko crumbs
- 1 Tbsp. butter
- ⅓ cup finely grated Parmesan
- Parsley for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400F. Peel and large dice sweet potato. Place sweet potato on a rimmed baking sheet and drizzle with 2 Tbsp. olive oil and sea salt. Roast in the oven for 20 min. In a large pot saute onion, garlic and carrot in the remaining 1 Tbsp. olive oil until tender. Add potato to the onion mixture and add the chicken stock. Simmer for 20-30 min. until all vegetables are completely tender. With a hand blender or standup blender mix until pureed. Adjust seasoning. Add quinoa and reheat.
- For the panko topping, melt the butter in a small fry pan and add the panko and cook until lightly browned. Add the parmesan and stir to combine.
- Top each bowl of soup with the panko crumbs and garnish with the parsley.
Now that’s my kind of soup! Will file it away for the cool days of fall.
Oh it was so good!!
This sounds, and looks, scrumptious! I just pinned this to try; thanks for sharing!
Stopping by from the DIY Dreamer
Thanks so much, it was really good!!
This sounds so wonderful and perfect for cooler weather! Pinned it.
Would be a perfect fall soup!! Thanks for stopping by!!
it looks so pretty just perfect for fall, found you on the DIY dreamer link up. would love a reply back!
Thank you so much for coming by, it is a great fall soup!!
Great photo, what kind of camera do you use?
I have a Canon T2i and a macro lens.
Love quinoa, love sweet potato and I’m also a big soup lover… I guess this means I have to make this dish soon, sounds absolutely delicious!
You will love it. We are did!!
LOVE the new logo… LOVE the photo and LOVE this recipe! It looks YUMMY!
Thanks so much for sharing this at The DIY Dreamer.. From Dream To Reality!
Thank you so very much!!! I appreciate you taking the time to comment.
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I Never made Soup with quinoa but with Sweet potatoes i can See it working!
Thanks for coming by and yes the quinoa worked so nicely!!
Sweet potato soup is my favorite(!) but we never had it with quinoa
It looks wonderful and sounds great!
I’m pinning it
Thanks for the pin, I appreciate it!
This looks fantastic Tara! I picked it as my personal favorite from last weeks Weekend Potluck. I can’t wait for the first snap of cooler weather, this will definitely be on my menu. I’ve shared it on fb and pinned it. Thanks Tara for being so faithful to the Weekend Potluck. I really appreciate it. Have a terrific weekend!
Oh wow Kim, thank you so much. I try to remember to pop over to your site often. I love what you are doing there!!!
Must try!! Great healthy recipe!
It was a great soup, I will be making it again!!
Delicious soup, and the color is just perfect for autumn! Pretty, healthy and yummy! No wonder this recipe was very popular on RecipeNewZ. And, as such, it is now featured on our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/RecipeNewZ. Congrats!
Wow, thank you so very much!!
I made this yesterday for tonight’s supper. When I made it, I thought it was too thick (it was thicker than baby food!) so I scrounged around and found some beef broth in the freezer so I added that. Then the soup kinda tasted like pot roast soup but still too thick so today I added 1/2 can of chicken soup. This soup was awesome! My husband loved it too. You have to put the panko topping on it. It was wonderful. I used Olive oil spray for the veggies and butter spray for the panko to lighten the calories. Yum!
Sorry that it turned out too thick for you. I do like a nice thick soup but if you let the quinoa sit in it too long you will have a very thick soup as absorbs moisture. Next time when you are cooking it add some more chicken broth so that you have a thinner soup. Cheers, Tara
The soup was too thick before adding the cooked quinoa. It might have been that I used 1 1/2 sweet potatoes because I didn’t know how big an extra large one was. Adding the extra chicken broth made it just right. It is definately a keeper! Thanks!
This recipe looks delicious and I can’t wait to try it. I have a question about the quinoa. When you add the quinoa at the end, do you add it dry, or have you already boiled the quinoa first? How long should it take to heat at this point? In my experience, quinoa takes a while to absorb liquid and unfurl itself, so I am having trouble imagining adding the grain dry. Please let me know how you handle this. Thanks!
You might have missed this in the recipe but it says 1 cup COOKED quinoa. You can’t add it dry to the soup. Quinoa cooks like rice. Here are the instructions to how I cook it. This is from another recipe I have made. http://noshingwiththenolands.com/greek-quinoa-salad/ You can also search it through this site. I hope this helps. It does make more quinoa than you need but it is so versatile to be used in anything or eaten by itself.
Thank you. I totally missed the “cooked” part and now everything makes much more sense.
I hope you enjoy it
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What do you think of using an acorn squash instead of a sweet potato? Nothing against sweet potatoes but I have a squash on hand
Every Thanksgiving I make an “orange” soup. It is never the same, so in saying this for sure you could. Tell me how you like it.
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Do you have any nutritional info on this recipe?
I could probably find that out for you using a another program, maybe. Was there something in particular you were wanting to find out?
WOW, looks amazing
Love your blog
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This soup was amazing! Made it yesterday and instead of the Panko topping I added goat cheese crumbles and oh me gee! Heavenly!
So glad you made it and yummy on the goat cheese crumble!!
Hi there, do you use sweet potatoes with the starchier yellow flesh and light brown skin, or, do you use what we in Vancouver call yams — waxier orange flesh, darker brown skin?
Thanks, look forward to trying this!
I use the orange fleshed yams. I hope you try it. I am making it again for our Thanksgiving table. Happy Thanksgiving!!
My husband made this recently and it was delicious – a great fall soup! Our dinner guests loved it as well! Thank you!
Thank you so much for trying it!!
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Wow this is good soup! I found it on Pinterest. I haven’t made the Panko topping yet but I can’t wait! I added a little thyme in rosemary to my soup because I think they complement the sweet potatoes well. Thank you for the recipe!
Hey Mary, I am so glad you made the soup and liked it. You do have to try that panko topping sometime as it is delicious!
This soup was DEEEELICIOUS!!! A few little adjustments like doubling the chicken stock and quinoa and using half yams and half sweet potatoes mixture and threw in a few spices. It’s a definite keeper!
I am glad you liked it. It has been a very popular soup!!!
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