Soup is my favorite thing to make.
If I could have been a professional soup maker instead of a professional baker… this blog would have been called something.. well, you know.
I love making soup.
I just stand in front of the stove and stir. And stir. And stir. And completely space out. Stir again. Think some thoughts. Stir. Taste. Stir.
It’s the best. It’s like taking too long a shower and accidentally washing you hair three and a half times.
Soup is best with biscuits. Really.. I’ll find any excuse to put a biscuit in my face.
These biscuits are made with both butter and goat cheese. Goat cheese!! In the dang biscuit!
The result is a tender, slightly tangy, dream boat biscuit situation.
These are the best drop biscuits to ever happen, anywhere… ever.
They’re so easy. Make them. You’ll understand.
Let me tell you about this soup.
It’s called Curried Sweet Potato Soup, but it’s not really curry-y. It’s packed with some really lovely flavors: coriander, cumin and ginger… and of course loads of sweet potato. Goat cheese crumbles on top really balance out the whole bowl.
This soup and biscuit combination is absolutely one of my favorite fall discoveries. It’s so warm, flavorful and delicious. Please make it happen in your kitchen.
Curried Sweet Potato Soup
from The Essential New York Times Cookbook
serves 6 to 8
1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
1 cup coarsely chopped onions
1 large clove garlic, coarsely chopped
1 tablespoon chopped ginger
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom
1/4 teaspoon turmeric
1/8 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
2 1/2 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced 1/4-inch thick
6 cups chicken broth, or slightly more as needed.
salt and pepper to taste
6 to 8 teaspoons goat cheese
Heat the oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add the onions and saute until the onions begin to brown, about 10 minutes. Add the garlic and saute, stirring for 30 seconds. Add the ginger, cumin, coriander, turmeric and red pepper flakes. Add the sweet potatoes and broth and bring to a boil.
Reduce the heat and simmer until the sweet potatoes are soft, about 20 minutes.
Puree the soup, in batches in a blender or food processor. Season to taste. The soup can be made a day ahead and kept in the fridge. Reheat over a low flame. If the soup is too thick, add a little more stock.
Ladle into bowls and crumble goat cheese on top.
Goat Cheese Drop Biscuits
makes about 9 biscuits
adapted slightly from Art Smith’s Table Fifty-Two
2 cups all-purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
4 tablespoons (2 ounces) cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes
1 tablespoon unsalted butter, for the pan
2 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted to top the biscuits
4 tablespoons (2 ounces) goat cheese, crumbled
1 cup buttermilk
Place a rack in the upper third of the oven and preheat to 425 degrees F. Place a 10-inch cast iron skillet in the oven to preheat as well.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt. With your fingers incorporate the butter and goat cheese until the flour resembles a coarse, pebbly mixture. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and pour in the buttermilk. With a fork, mix together the buttermilk and flour until all of the dry flour disappears.
Melt 2 tablespoons of butter in a small sauce pan or in the microwave. Set aside.
Remove the cast iron from the oven and place one tablespoon of butter in it. Work the pat of butter around, greasing the entire pan, including the sides.
Spoon the batter, by the 1/4-cup into the hot skillet. I used a big scooper to do the job. The biscuits will touch when baked… that’s ok.
Brush with melted butter.
Bake for 14-16 minutes, until slightly golden in color. Remove from the oven. Let rest for 5 minutes. Serve warm.
152 Responses
Does anybody know how these turn out if you bake them on a baking sheet, rather than a cast iron skillet? Thanks!
Just made this last night and I am so glad I did! Love the tang of the goat cheese to offset the sweetness of the soup, and goat cheese in biscuits? whoa- they were delicious. Your recipes are also speaking to me! Love the kale, love the coconut, love the chocolate, love your whole darn blog!
i’m so glad you had success with this recipe!
Made this soup (using a homemade veg stock instead of chicken stock) and the biscuits to go along with it last night for a birthday dinner. They were delicious and a big hit! Thanks, Joy!
By the way, the biscuits were so tender, and reminded me of the cheddar kind Red Lobster serves. I bet that batter could be adapted with different cheese etc. to emulate them. Heheh.
I stumbled across these recipes when looking for yummy new soup recipes, and it didn’t disappoint. The soup is delicious, and the biscuits are incredible! I thought I had the perfect biscuit recipe, but I will have to add these to the rotation. Thanks!
Wow. wow. Stop. It’s like you’re reading my foodie mind. Goat cheese biscuits might just the answer to all of the problems in the world! And that soup! All of your posts are so beautiful, keep it up!
Just made the biscuits – so easy and delicious! Looking forward to your cookbook!
mmm looks devine! i can almost smell it Joy!
My kids BEG for these biscuits. You are rocking their world, Joy! Today we are having them on top of chicken pot pie. It’s too hot for chicken pot pie…but still. Yum.
Sooooo Imade these recipes and proceeded to polish off 4 biscuits with two bowls of soup. I felt like I had died and gone to heaven. This is one of those recipes that you can’t even tweak, it’s so perfect. I’m hungry just typing this comment, lol!
Joy – these biscuits are seriously a gift from heaven! I’ve made them twice now, once with butternut squash soup and last night with asparagus soup… hard to eat just one! Thanks so much for the creative and out-of-the-box recipes! I’m making your whole wheat molasses bread for the second time later this week too and can’t wait :)
I just made this soup and biscuits tonight! The soup was delicious! And the biscuits are a nice pairing with the soup. I love yams and i’m always looking for tasty new recipes! Thanks so much Joy for sharing. :)
Lovely lovely lovely!!!
Please post more soups. Every single one I’ve tried from this page were adorable!
Joy the Soup Maker doesnt sound too bad, does it?! :)
can’t wait to try this…my sone, 17, loves to make (and eat) soup! looks like this could be a winning combination!
Question: Is it possible to use a glass bake ware instead of cast iron?
surely! go for it!
Made these biscuits with dinner the other night and they were absolutely delicious! My friend and I devoured half the skillet :) Thanks Joy! I don’t know which recipe of yours I want to try next!
Both of these recipes sound delicious! My question –I am familiar with feta and I do like it. Is feta what I should use in these dishes?
I just found your blog a few weeks ago and I’m so glad I did! This was the first thing I made. My husband loves sweet potatoes and this soup was delicious….and the biscuits…AMAZING! I didn’t have a cast iron skillet, so I just baked them in a pie plate. It took just a few minutes longer. I made the biscuits for the 2nd time this past weekend with beef stew. So thank you for an awesome first try at homemade biscuits :)
….and now I have your pear & walnut spiced bundt cake in my oven!
Has anyone made these biscuits in advance and reheated them a few hours later? Are they still as good? I want to bring them to a potluck but there’s no way I can “make” them there – only warm them up. Do you think it would work? Thanks!
nice recipe and pairing….. way way way tooooooooooooo much fat in the biscuit… isnt there a healthy option at all to all this amount of fat & saturated animal fat at that…?
Goat biscuits in a soup? You’re a genius, Joy.
Hey Joy,
Both of these recipies looks amazing! I’m thinking about making them tonight. Do you think the soup would still taste good if I did pumpkin instead of sweet potato?
I made both of these recipes last night – the biscuits are amazingly simple, and so delicious and tart and fluffy and satisfying, and the soup is excellent, especially with the goat cheese on top… I opted to use 1 and 1/2 spoonfuls of Curry Power, instead. Also, I used a blender to liquify the soup (I don’t have a food processor or immersion blender), and during my final batch, the plastic bottom of my glass pitcher popped off and scathing hot soup burst out in a sea of fiery orange all over me, my counterop, and my floor. It hurt – bad.
But, I still enjoyed the wonderful meal, even with slightly burned ankles and fingers – so it was all worth it!
I love soup too and this one looks great. I’ll be making it soon
Thank you for this great bread – inspiration ;-)
I did it yesterday for Halloween and it was great.
Greetings, Beltane
I made this tonight for my family. My dad said the biscuits were the best he has ever tasted!! Thanks for a successful dinner!
Rachel Davidson
Joy, I have now made 2 of your soups, 5 of your pancakes, your bolognese and pasta and too many of your sweet recipes to count. You are amazing and I hope you never stop doing what you are doing! I love your blog, and look forward to every new post.
Keep on keeping on!
Yum this soup sounds delicious but the biscuits with goat cheese ~ that has got to be the best idea yet! I can hardly wait to try making them myself.
Made this tonite – it was delicious!
Dear Joy,
You actually used yams. Because I went to the store and I had yams and sweet potatoes staring at my face. The yams looked more like what you used, but the sweet potatoes were well… sweet potatoes but were yellow. I just thought maybe with the seasoning and cooking it will turn out orange like yours. Well… it didn’t. but it was DELICIOUS none the less! :D
And p.s. instead of making biscuits. I made corn bread with goat cheese. It was probably the best thing I have put in my mouth.
david. i’m so sorry to have mislead you. my dad always called those orange looking potato things sweet potatoes… so that’s what i know them as.
i’m glad the soup was still delicious…. sorry about the confusion!
David, corn bread with goat cheese sounds delicious! Wanna share the recipe?
Actually, Joy was right, she did use sweet potatoes. It is very unlikely that you found true yams in your local grocery. The orange tubers sold in the US as yams are almost always sweet potatoes. Actual yams are not popular here and are not orange. I only know this because it has been a pet peeve of my mother-in-law who grew up on a sweet potato farm. I have to admit I love them, call them whatever you want as long as I can eat them!!
I just made the soup this afternoon, exactly as directed (well, without the goat cheese garnish, since I don’t have any). I almost fell in love with myself after I tasted it, but I guess those props should really go to you. Either way, it’s amazing, and I love how it doesn’t have any cream or half-and-half in it–not that I’m opposed to those ingredients, but just because it helps keep it so healthy while still being fabulous.
Gah, I love biscuits!
Made these biscuits last night to go with dinner and they were great! Great way to use up leftover goat cheese.
I tried goat cheese for the first time on our honeymoon. I got brave and ordered this cheese sampler platter as an appetizer and I was so glad I did! I am always looking for a good excuse to buy some. I think I found a new one!
Love this delicious-looking post! I’m a massive fail in the biscuit-baking department. I’m completely incapable of re-creating our old-school family recipe (which isn’t even written down!)…mine never turn out fluffy, flaky, and perfect like my mom’s :) Maybe adding goat cheese is the trick I need!
Your soup recipe looks delightful, too. One of my favorite winter stews is an African Sweet Potato-Peanut stew (a soup with peanut butter mixed in? My kind of dinner).
Hi Joy!
This all looks amazing. But I have to admit: I’m a huge freak and I really don’t like goat cheese… like, REALLY. I have tried and failed and tried and failed and tried and failed!! :( What sort of cheese could I replace it with? My first thought is kiri or some other creamy cheese, but goat cheese has more of a crumbly texture than kiri. Would feta be too salty? Any other ideas? Anyone?
Thanks,
N.
if you don’t like goat cheese, maybe this isn’t the recipe for you. here’s something you might like https://www.joythebaker.com/blog/2010/01/cheddar-black-pepper-biscuits/
I’m from northern Ohio (we don’t eat many biscuits unless they are of the Pillsbury tube variety) and am sad to report that biscuits were never part of my childhood or adulthood…but I would looove to try making these…I have a strange obsession with goat cheese. However, I do not have a cast iron skillet. Do you think I could get away with using a round cake pan instead?
I made these tonight and am currently stuffing my face with biscuit number two…and paired with Trader Joes Vegetarian Chili (try it. it’ll knock your socks off.) was just ridiculous, in a very very good way.
By the way, a round cake pan, in lieu of the cast iron skillet, works fabulously.
I love soup too; might not love making it as much as you do, but sure love the resulting aroma it brings to the home and of course, love the end results.
But to be honest, if using the word love ONE more time? Those biscuits. Oh my. I have an opened log of goat cheese; wondered today what to do with it and then you came into my life. Maybe we’ll just have biscuits for dinner, but they will be goat cheese biscuits!
I am a soup gal, too. I would make and eat soup every day for supper if everyone else would get on board. Have you ever seen The Tale of Despereaux? If you enjoy extreme soup appreciation, it’s a nice movie…and not only if you’re five!
Those goat cheese biscuits look amazing! I’m a huge fan of goat cheese and never thought of putting them in biscuits.
Must. Try. This. Now.
Way to contribute to the world’s mission to turn me Snooki orange. But I’m in. You’re also contributing to my extreme biscuit-making addiction. But again, I’m in. If orange foods and biscuits are the only things I ever become addicted to, I cannot complain!
I made this last night! It was AWESOME!!
Bringing it to a pot luck tomorrow. Thanks Joy!!! :D
A.Co @ A.Co est. 1984
I wish I had some sweet potatoes, I would totally make this for dinner…or lunch (then I could have it sooner)! It sounds perfect for this drizzly autumn day. It’s definitely going in my “things to make soon” file. Thank you Joy-The-Soup-Maker!
Sounds divine. You make my life.
soup and biscuits sound really great. I need to try this combo
have a nice time,
Paula
These biscuits look freaking amazing! I am desperately in love with goat cheese.
soups are timeless creation. you can experiment and innovate soup just the way you want them. but the goat cheese biscuit, i cant believe it either? very creative. as far as i know goat cheese are creamy and lite.
Dear Joy,
I love your blog. I’m super excited to make this soup because it is 44 degrees and windy in Chicago and I think this soup would be perfect. Thank you for loving making soup!
Soooo, for those of us with very bare spice cabinets…any cheats to avoid buying 5 jars of spices? Or is that sacralige?
Find a health food store with a good bulk spice section and buy little bits of spices. It’s tons of fun, and can be absurdly affordable. I went into one recently to get a selection of mulling spices and walked out with more than enough cinnamon sticks, star anise, lemon peel, new cardamom pods (mine are terribly old), and allspice for like $2.
You & your recipes (especially this one) are a gift from God.
Goat cheese biscuits?! Oh dear. Just when I thought that biscuits couldn’t get any better, just when I thought that I had a chance at resisting them, you had to go and add goat cheese. I will never be able to escape this delicious, doughy treat.
Oooohhhh butter AND goat cheese in biscuits,swoon. This is screamin’ a impromptu fall Sunday lunch, now to call my friends. Thanks so much for the menu!
Hi Joy,
Question? This recipe looks delicious but is there a special reason you went with chicken broth instead of veggie broth? I like to keep my veggie soups vegetarian so I’m planning to buy veggie broth but wondered if I’m missing something special on the whole chicken broth thing (savory flavor?). Great recipe & great blog.
you can totally go with vegetable broth. i just have a really strong affection for chicken broth.
I love love love goat cheese… Never thought to put it in biscuits. Brilliant, Joy!
Oooh I love the idea of goat cheese in biscuits! You get the tangy oomph of buttermilk and awesome texture all at once. Yum!
This whole meal looks magical…so many great flavors! I love pretty much anything involving sweet potato…
I just love soup. And goat cheese too! What I like is pealing and choping the vegs before cooking them into a soup! And I still love your plate; it’s like the lucky object to your blog!
I have a soup obsession too! Also a sweet potato and winter squash obsession. This is on the List!
love,
cathy b. @ brightbakes
I threw these recipes into my “must make” folder before I even read the whole post. These both look incredible!
Yum! One of my friends made a sweet and spicy butternut squash soup that sounds similar to this, and I loved it. I think I’m a bit challenged when it comes to chopping butternut, so thanks for this recipe! :)
Can’t wait – soup and biscuits! Perfect thing to do with the slim pickings from farmers market, add a little swiss chard on the side and I am all set!
soup is my favorite thing to make, too. and sweet potatoes are one of my favorite vegetables. paired with goat cheese biscuits?? this whole meal speaks to me. and it says beautiful beautiful things.
Ooh! Joy, that looks absolutely heavenly! I would love a bowl of this right now – it looks like the perfect thing to help get rid of my sinus infection (well, with some antibiotics on the side, of course).
Easy homemade biscuits! I’m totally for it!
I’m known amongst my clients as the queen of soup – what I absolutely adore here is the goats cheese incorporated in the biscuits! This will be on the menu next time I have the girls over for lunch with a little green salad on the side.
Hey Joy.. I love cooking soup. Its like cooking soup makes your soul more whole. Like standing there and stirring and investing your time into this beautiful soup just makes your life make sense.
Biscuits.. are my favourite thing to eat hot out of the oven.. you know how they flake apart and absorb the butter that the heat melts..
Your post today just make me completely agree with this “opinion” (in video form)
https://vimeo.com/16092198
So funny that you love making soup. I have an AA in Culinary Arts and I also love making soup. People always ask me, “What’s your favorite thing to make?” SUCH a vague question (too broad!). Somehow I’ve decided to answer with “soups”. My reasons are exactly what you described, cracks me up.
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M.
This looks so warm, comforting and delicious! Thanks for sharing, Joy. Now, what’s for dessert?
Thanks Joy! I’ve been on a soup kick the past few weeks and this looks completely lovely. Biscuits–awesome bonus!
I was already swooning when I read the title of this post. WOW.
…Yeah, “Joy the Soup Nazi”…*giggle*snort* ;o)
…I’m gonna try this – it looks & sounds delish! Thanks for sharing!
…Blessings… :o)
The perfect fall dinner, and I actually have sweet potatoes and goat cheese at home (fall staples you know). This could even compete with my grilled chedda cheese and tomato bisque love. Thanks for sharing:)
This looks like the perfect fall meal! The soup looks creamy and delicious. Thanks for sharing!
Love curried soups using root veggies or a squash like butternut. Try roasting and then adding the veggie to the pot. Serious yum.
I LOVE blue cheese biscuits. Thank you for this recipe!
Woke up this morning with a fever. Thought I could make it to work. But after a too long shower and washing my hair three and a half times I realized, I probably shouldn’t be operating heavy machinery. So I’ve watched all the back episodes of 30 Rock and it’s only 10:00am. Look, an email from Joy the Baker. Oh, look a ton of sweet potatoes looking at me with sad, sad potato eyes saying “chop us up- make us into soup!” Perfect! Thank you Joy- for making a sick day awesome.
This looks divine. A perfect fall meal. Love your banner btw!
what a combo these two make!! looks like they really complement each other!
I think you may have written this post for my tastes exactly. I can’t wait to have this meal sometime this weekend.
If I don’t have a cast iron skillet, I assume a baking sheet will work too?
yes! certainly!
Oh those biscuits…oh goodness…with the goat cheese?! In the biscuit?! We are in love…
Is so sad that we don’t have store-bought chicken broth here..making it takes a lot oftime when I want soup RIGHT NOW! that lookc incredible, really
-Amalia
https://buttersweetmelody.wordpress.com
I love a good soup recipe. Soup is my favourite thing to make too. And to eat!
Those biscuits sure are dream boats. And I’m so glad the soup and biscuits are officially together now.
i love sweet potato soup! one of my favorite fall veggies. and cheesy, butter biscuits?? to die for!
This meal looks phenomenal! Awesome flavors, and I bet the biscuits were the perfect accompaniment to the soup. When Boston decides it’s fall again (it has been rainy and in the 70s) I am definitely making both of these recipes :).
I’ve died and gone to heaven! Two of my favorite things in one meal!
goat cheese completes me…so creamy and tangy and salty and perfect!
Joy, the Souper ;D
I love soups too. I can eat them from the morning till midnight.
Wow! The soup and the biscuits, what a great combination! These spices and the goat cheese, it’s probable heaven!!!!
i am gng to make this soon,..:-)
I use my cast-iron skillet for just about everything but have never even considered using it for biscuits. Thanks for the inspiration. What other creative uses do you have for your skillet? Seriously, it’s one of my top five favorite possessions of all time.
I just happen to have some sweet potatoes that need using up! I <3 soup.
I’m all over these goat cheese biscuits!
My favourite soup is a sweet potato soup (with coconutmilk and some lime juice/zest) and I absolutely love goat cheese! I’ve never tried the combination though… so I can’t wait to make these recipes! Thanks Joy!
i want this for dinner tonight
Yum! Those biscuits are now on my to-do list this weekend. Thank you! Silvia, I think what we call sweet potatoes here in the states, are often called “yams” elsewhere. Hope that helps :)
Joy Makes Soup.
Not as catchy as Joy the Baker. But I think I’d love your blog either way.
I’m feeling rather embarassed here, in the photos I think I see pumpkin pieces, here sweet potatoes (or american potatoes as they are ususally called) are starch white… but never mind, vegetables are different in different countries, maybe I could try pumpkin instead? Keep on bringing the soups, I love them!
Silvia,
I believe they are yams. Like you sweet potatoes here are white. Yams are orange, similar in colour to pumpkin. They can usually be interchanged in recipes. Although pumpkin could probably work as well.
“Like you sweet potatoes here are white” !? Really!?
Sweet Potatoes and yams are totally interchangeable in my brain. And Sweet Potato Soup sounds better than Yam Soup.
Silvia, you might know them as yams! :)
Thanks everybody for answering, now I sorry I am going to disappoint you all: yams are not on sale in Italy, so the choice is between sweet potatoes (which are really really sweet) and pumpkin (not so sweet).
Thanks again to you all!
go with the pumpkin!
Well that’s dinner sorted for tonight! What you call biscuits, we call scones over here in the UK, but you probably already know that.
goat cheese is arguably my favorite cheese. don’t tell the other cheeses.
if i don’t have a cast iron skillet what would you recommend? uncovered dutch oven maybe?
gizelle marie,
Ha! You made me laugh! Then I popped over to your blog… Sweet! Nice Blog!!!
Gizelle, thank you!! I don’t have a cast iron skillet either but do have a le creuset!! Never would have thought of it… still waiting for the coffee to clear my cobwebs…. I am making these to go with my soup on Halloween!!
I also don’t have a cast iron skillet, and also don’t have a dutch oven… I know it is sad, but when your kitchen is only a few feet wide, minimal pans are necessary. Anyone have ideas of a good substitute? Could a use a 9 inch metal pan on top of a cookie sheet? (Don’t tease me – I am trying to be creative!) These look so divine!
Your blog provides me with so much joy! (I think your blog is aptly named….)
Those biscuits look divine…. yumyum
goat cheese biscuits!! goat cheese and i have a really intense relationship. i love it! and then i become allergic! i literally can’t stop sneezing when i eat it. soooo weird…and sad.
“Soup-er Joy”? :-)
Sounds DEE-lish!
I came up with the exact same blog name before I scrolled down to the comments. I think it’s a definite winner! :)
I was going to say the same thing. :D
Your blog is like a breathe of fresh air. I fumbled upon it awhile ago and have been hooked ever since. Your recipes are yummy, and most of all, heavens to betsy you make me laugh – like in a pee my pants sort of way!! I like to think that if you lived in small town Canada like me, we’d be friends. Just sayin. Keep doin’ what your doin’ because it’s super fab!