This Roasted Sweet Potato Salad is bursting with hearty fall flavors. Sweet potato, greens, quinoa, pumpkin seeds and feta cheese tossed in the best maple dijon dressing. Have this salad prepped for easy lunches in less than 30 minutes!
There's nothing I love more than a salad hearty enough to serve as either a main dish or a side dish, especially when it's made with one of my favorite fall vegetables: sweet potatoes.
If you love sweet potatoes as much as I do, you won't regret trying my Slow Cooker Pumpkin and Sweet Potato Soup, Shepherd's Pie with Sweet Potato, or Sweet Potato Muffins with Crumb Topping.
For dessert, you can't go wrong with Paleo Sweet Potato Pie Bars.
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🌟Why You'll Love this Recipe
- Great way to repurpose leftover quinoa. If you have leftover quinoa from making my Simple Quinoa and Black Bean Salad Recipe or Butternut Squash and Cranberry Quinoa Salad, making this roasted sweet potato salad is an easy way to use it up.
- Made with a healthy homemade dressing. I am a huge fan of making salad dressing at home because they're cheaper, healthier, and more flavorful. Once you get into the habit of whipping up your own dressings with easy ingredients, you'll never look back! Check out my collection of sauces and dips for more ideas.
- Quick and easy. This simple sweet potato salad is ready in 30 minutes or less and is one of my favorite salads for easy lunches, dinners, or bringing to family gatherings and holidays.
🥘Ingredients and Substitutions
- Sweet potatoes - Using freshly peeled and chopped sweet potatoes is preferential over frozen potatoes to make the best, crispy roasted potatoes.
- Quinoa - White quinoa, red quinoa, black quinoa, or tri-colored quinoa will all work in this salad. Use your favorite or the type you can find in your grocery store. Learn how to cook quinoa with this simple tutorial.
- Feta cheese - Cheese adds a tangy, creamy savoriness to this healthy salad and ties all the flavors together.
- Olive oil - When using olive oil to make a homemade salad dressing, using a high-quality oil makes a world of difference. When shopping for new oil, check for a certification of quality seal. It should also be sold in a dark bottle to preserve the oil.
- Lemon juice - Lemon adds a touch of acidity to brighten the dressing. If needed, try substituting with 1-2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar.
See the recipe card below for the remaining ingredients and quantities.
📖Variations
- Sweet potato substitutions: Butternut squash or cubed pumpkin would work well here.
- Baby spinach substitutions: Any kind of greens will work like kale, chard, romaine, shaved Brussels, beet greens or a mixture of greens would be delicious.
- Pumpkin seed substitutions: Try chopped pecans, walnuts, slivered almonds, or pine nuts.
- Feta cheese substitutions: My favorite cheese variations are goat cheese or vegan feta cheese to make this salad vegan friendly.
- Optional additions to try: Bulk up your salad even more and add dried cranberries, bell pepper, red onion, pomegranate arils, chopped apples or pears, black beans, bacon bits, Air Fryer Ham or Air Fryer Rotisserie Chicken.
Air Fryer Method
If you'd like to roast your sweet potatoes in the air fryer instead of the oven, use my Air Fryer Sweet Potatoes post as a cooking guide. Or, if you opt to use butternut squash, use my Air Fryer Butternut Squash recipe!
🔪Instructions
- Roast the sweet potatoes. Season the potatoes with olive oil, salt and black pepper. Bake for 30 minutes, flipping them halfway through. Once tender, remove from the oven and set aside.
- Make the dressing. In a small bowl or Pyrex, whisk together the dijon mustard, lemon juice, maple syrup, salt, pepper and oil.
- Prep the salad. In a large bowl, add the baby spinach, roasted sweet potato, quinoa, pumpkin seeds, and feta cheese.
- Dress and toss ingredients together. Pour the salad dressing overtop, then toss to combine and serve this roasted sweet potato salad immediately as a main or side dish.
💭Recipe FAQs
If you are making this sweet potato salad for meal prep, the potatoes will last in the refrigerator for up to 5 days when stored separately in an airtight container.
Absolutely! Sweet potatoes can be frozen in an airtight container for up to 6 months. Before freezing, allow the sweet potatoes to cool completely on a wire rack. This will allow air to circulate and prevent condensation build-up.
Yes, sweet potatoes can be eaten warm, at room temperature or cold.
👩🏻🍳Chef Tips
- Combine right before serving. If you are serving this sweet potato salad for dinner, I recommend tossing and dressing it with the maple dijon salad dressing right before serving. This will prevent the salad ingredients from getting soggy and will taste as fresh as possible.
- Make the quinoa and sweet potatoes ahead of time. This will speed up the prep time significantly and make it easy to throw this salad together in 5 minutes.
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🍳Recipe
Roasted Sweet Potato Salad with Quinoa
Equipment
- Cutting board
Ingredients
- 1 large sweet potato, peeled and diced into 1-inch pieces
- 1 5 ounce package baby spinach
- 2 cups cooked quinoa
- ⅓ cup feta cheese
- ⅓ cup unsalted pumpkin seeds
Maple Dijon Salad Dressing
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- ½ lemon, juiced
- 1-2 tablespoons maple syrup
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- ½ cup olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 430 degrees F.
- Peel and dice the sweet potato into 1-inch pieces and spread them out onto a baking sheet and season with olive oil, salt and black pepper. Bake for 30 minutes, flipping them halfway through.
- Remove the sweet potatoes and let them cool while assembling the salad.
- Add all of the salad ingredients to a large bowl.
- Make the salad dressing by combining the ingredients in a bowl or measuring cup. Whisk the combine then pour over the salad.
- Toss the salad and enjoy!
Notes
- Combine right before serving. If you are serving this sweet potato salad for dinner, I recommend tossing and dressing it with the maple dijon salad dressing right before serving. This will prevent the salad ingredients from getting soggy and will taste as fresh as possible.
- Make the quinoa and sweet potatoes ahead of time. This will speed up the prep time significantly and make it easy to throw this salad together in 5 minutes.
Nutrition
Nutritional information is based on third-party calculations and should be considered estimates. Actual nutritional content will vary with brands used, measuring methods, portion sizes and more.
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