Hearty, Healthy, Delicious Soups for Every Season
This is the perfect season for soup recipes! Warm and nourishing in cold or rainy weather, soups serve as a delicious lunch, side, or main meal with some good bread and salad. Here are some super-satisfying soups, chowders, and stews—including Granny’s Chicken Soup, Butternut Squash Soup, German Potato Soup, and many more!
Granny’s Best Chicken Soup
This chicken soup is the classic. Yes, it’s handed down from grandma! Generations of grandmas in cultures around the world have relied on chicken soup to treat the congestion, fever, aches, and chills of respiratory infections.
Jambalaya Soup
A hearty meal for winter months, this cold and flu fighter may even convince you to change up your chicken soup routine.
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Cauliflower and Brie Soup
Serve this rich soup with bread and a salad for a complete meal. This dish is a good example of how a soft cheese such as Brie can enhance soup’s flavor.
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Ginger Thai Pumpkin Soup
This Thai-inspired creamy pumpkin soup is smooth and flavorful. It has warm and cozy curry-coconut flavors but isn’t too spicy.
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Kale, Sausage, and White Bean Soup
Meat, legumes, and a leafy green—what more could you ask for in a soup? To add even more color and sweetness, substitute diced winter squash for the potato. Whether you use potato or squash, add cooked pasta at the end, and you’ve got minestrone!
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Aroostook Potato and Broccoli Soup
A hearty, potato-based soup designed for cold winters—like those in northern Maine, where this recipe originates from.
Lowcountry Chowder
Lowcountry cuisine stems from the South Carolina Lowcountry and Georgia coast. This recipe for Lowcountry Chowder takes all of the flavors you love from a Lowcountry boil and turns it into a creamy and satisfying one-pot dish.
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Vermont Butternut Squash Soup
Sweet maple syrup really brings out the butternut squash!
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German Potato Soup
With vegetables, noodles, and bacon, this German Potato Soup is a wonderfully simple and hearty meal on a cool night!
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Potato and Kale Soup
We served this Potato and Kale Soup to the Almanac editors, and everyone loved it! The soup is especially welcome in the winter months, when kale is at its peak.
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Chicken Tortilla Soup
Everything you love about Mexican food… made into a soup! Spices and a jalapeño pepper give this soup a slight kick but feel free to adjust it for your own taste.
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Slow Cooker French Onion Soup
Set it and forget it—that’s the beauty of slow cookers! With just a little prep and patience, you can make this delicious French onion soup.
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More Soup Recipes
- 13-Bean Good Luck Soup
- Black Bean, Sausage, and Bacon Soup
- Mexican Chicken and Bean Soup
- Italian Vegetable Soup
- Classic Tomato Soup
- Beautiful Beet and Carrot Soup
Stew Recipes
Chowder Recipes
Soup Toppings
Add interest to your soup with toppings! It can make a big difference to your everyday soups such as tomato and carrot or squash. Here are some topping ideas:
- Toasted pumpkin seeds and pecans are great on heartier soups such as squash, pumpkin, and black bean soup.
- Chopped pistachios add texture, too.
- Stir pesto into tomato or red pepper soups.
- Yogurt pairs well with beet soup or a spicy soup.
- Fresh herbs (tarragon, dill) are wonderful added to soup, too.
- You could even add potato chips for a salty crunch! Be creative!
To boost the nutritional content of soups, simply add grains or beans. See our Guide to Grains.
Catherine Boeckmann
Love reading your daily emails. With the recipes you share can you allow them to be "pinned" to pinterest so that they can be saved for future reference. I'd rather save than to print. Thank you!
Do you sell a book with your soup/stew recipes. I tend to forget to print from email or online articles. Thank you.
Hello, Domna. Thank you for your interest, but we are sorry to report that we do not have a soups, stews, and chowder cookbook. We have put out cookbooks in the past that certainly contain some of these dishes, but not an entire collection. It’s a good idea!
Hi. I've observed your recipe emails frequently and you have amazing stuff. You have changed your web page format for recipes and links. In this page I was unable to view the recipe link and refers me to a search page that has a lot to be desired. This site dated 10/14/21 was previously published 01/11/21. Four recipes (10/14) for Maha’s Lentil Soup, Chicken Crockpot Stew, Seafood Chowder and Cod Chowder links cannot be found herein. Yet the site 01/11 for the same recipes had links. But when I copied and pasted those same recipe(s) link it takes me back to the modern Search Page, nothing there. Apparently the recipes did exist at one time. On occasion, I Goggle search for a recipe I might have success finding the recipe as was the case with the Lentil Soup, but mostly not so. There are many recipes of the same nature by various sources. Yankee Magazine has similar recipes, so I'm not bewildered.
Hi Tom, Thanks for your comment! When we updated our site, we had to remove some of the older recipes. Unfortunately, many of the recipes we removed have appeared in other articles (like this one), which means that the links lead to nowhere! We are working on removing these broken links and apologize for the inconvenience in the meantime.
I'm looking for a recipe for Beef Stew without all the tomatoes etc in it, My Mother and Gramma made it I only know it had Beef, potatoes, carrots, and onions in it, but I don't know what she used for seasonings other than salt and pepper. :-)
Hi, Elva. Perhaps you would enjoy our recipe for Irish Beef Stew.
