We had a big, beautiful, sweet potato leftover from making fries a while back. I decided to make this Roasted Sweet Potato and Quinoa Soup. My family loves my soup creations. Amber adores homemade soup any time 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. Also, try our Sweet Potato Soup for a different version.
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 oomph!!
Roasted Sweet Potato and Quinoa Soup
This is where healthy and tasting great meet!!
Ingredients
- 1 very large sweet potato
- 1/2 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
- 1/2 cup Panko crumbs
- 1 Tbsp. butter
- 1/3 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.
Nutrition
Serving: 1Calories: 608kcalCarbohydrates: 36gProtein: 39gFat: 34gSaturated Fat: 10gPolyunsaturated Fat: 22gCholesterol: 135mgSodium: 639mgFiber: 5gSugar: 7g
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Comments & Reviews
recipes says
WOW, looks amazing 🙂 Love your blog
Linda Sierra says
Do you have any nutritional info on this recipe?
Noshing with the Nolands says
I could probably find that out for you using a another program, maybe. Was there something in particular you were wanting to find out?
Debra says
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 🙂
Noshing with the Nolands says
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.
Sarah Delacueva says
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!
Noshing with the Nolands says
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.
Sarah Delacueva says
Thank you. I totally missed the “cooked” part and now everything makes much more sense. 🙂
Noshing with the Nolands says
I hope you enjoy it 🙂
Hope says
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!
Noshing with the Nolands says
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
Hope says
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!
RecipeNewZ says
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!
Noshing with the Nolands says
Wow, thank you so very much!!
Kate says
Must try!! Great healthy recipe!
Noshing with the Nolands says
It was a great soup, I will be making it again!!
RecipeNewZ says
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!
RecipeNewZ says
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!
RecipeNewZ says
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!
Kim @ Sunflower Supper Club says
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!
Noshing with the Nolands says
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!!!
Winnie says
Sweet potato soup is my favorite(!) but we never had it with quinoa
It looks wonderful and sounds great!
I’m pinning it
Noshing with the Nolands says
Thanks for the pin, I appreciate it!
Kankana says
I Never made Soup with quinoa but with Sweet potatoes i can See it working!
Noshing with the Nolands says
Thanks for coming by and yes the quinoa worked so nicely!!
Christine says
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!
Noshing with the Nolands says
Thank you so very much!!! I appreciate you taking the time to comment.
Denise @ TLT says
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!
Noshing with the Nolands says
You will love it. We are did!!
Laureen says
Great photo, what kind of camera do you use?
Noshing with the Nolands says
I have a Canon T2i and a macro lens.
peasblog says
it looks so pretty just perfect for fall, found you on the DIY dreamer link up. would love a reply back!
Noshing with the Nolands says
Thank you so much for coming by, it is a great fall soup!!
Jamie @ Love Bakes Good Cakes says
This sounds so wonderful and perfect for cooler weather! Pinned it.
Noshing with the Nolands says
Would be a perfect fall soup!! Thanks for stopping by!!
Darby Hawley says
This sounds, and looks, scrumptious! I just pinned this to try; thanks for sharing!
Stopping by from the DIY Dreamer 🙂
Noshing with the Nolands says
Thanks so much, it was really good!!
Jill Johnston says
Now that’s my kind of soup! Will file it away for the cool days of fall.
Noshing with the Nolands says
Oh it was so good!!