50 simple soup recipes that’ll take you on a trip around the world from the comfort of your home! From classic chicken noodle to the bold flavors of Thai red curry, these recipes bring the taste of cultures from around the world right to your kitchen. These soups are perfect for warming up your soul and tantalizing your taste buds.
Classic Vegetable Soups
1. Traditional Minestrone
Minestrone is a hearty Italian vegetable soup made with tomato-y broth, whatever vegetables you have on hand, and pasta or rice.
2. Hearty Lentil Soup
Hearty Lentil Soup has the thickness and consistency of a luxurious bolognaise sauce, and can be used in many ways (other than as soup!). Add whatever veges you have lurking in the fridge, and serve it with crusty, buttery bread.
3. Creamy Tomato Basil Soup
This creamy Tomato Basil Soup is loaded with hidden vegetables and is restaurant-quality DELICIOUS! You can make it on the stove, slow cooker or in the Instant Pot.
4. Chunky Vegetable Soup
Hearty Vegetable Soup with a delicious combination of flavours from golden potatoes, leeks, and other vegetables.
5. Butternut Squash Soup
Served piping hot with a hunk of crusty bread, this creamy, nourishing butternut squash soup recipe is fall comfort food at its best.
Cozy Chicken Soups
6. Chicken Noodle Soup
This is a homemade, easy-to-make Chicken Noodle Soup perfect for any day of the week. With the broth and the soup made from scratch in under an hour, this is a recipe you’ll be making often. It’s healthy, low calorie, and filled with incredible flavours.
7. Creamy Chicken and Wild Rice Soup
Creamy Chicken and Wild Rice Soup is such a rich, hearty and satisfying soup. It’s like a chicken noodle soup but it uses a variety of flavorful rice instead of noodles, and it’s made creamy with a milk and heavy cream based béchamel sauce. Everyone will love this comforting recipe.
8. Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup
This lemon chicken orzo soup recipe is light, healthy, and cozy. It uses wholesome everyday ingredients and is sure to become a family favorite!
9. Mexican Chicken Tortilla Soup
An easy-to-make, one-pot recipe, this comforting Mexican Chicken Tortilla Soup makes a tasty, filling meal that the whole family will love.
10. Coconut Curry Chicken Soup
Coconut Curry Chicken Soup is fragrant, fresh, and flavorful. Enjoy as a light yet filling lunch, or serve over rice or rice noodles for a heartier meal!
Satisfying Beef Soups
11. Beef and Barley Soup
Loaded with nutritious veggies, tender beef, and plump barley, this Beef Barley Soup is a complete meal in a bowl. This soup can be made ahead of time and freezes well, making it the perfect family dinner.
12. Classic Beef Stew
This classic French beef stew is the ultimate cold weather comfort food. After a few hours in the oven, the meat becomes meltingly tender and enveloped in a rich wine sauce.
13. French Onion Soup with Beef
You are going to love this hearty French onion soup with beef, topped with a toasted baguette loaded with gooey cheese, of course! This hearty Beef soup is made the same way as traditional French onion soup, but with the notable addition of beef stew meat which is simmered until it renders into wonderfully tender morsels that melt in your mouth.
14. Spicy Beef Chili Soup
Taste a kick of spice with paprika, pepper flakes and chili in this fan-your-mouth beef chili soup recipe. All you need is a crockpot to make this tasty dish.
15. Italian Wedding Soup
Tender meatballs, veggies, and pasta in a rich and flavorful broth, Italian wedding soup is a meal unto itself.
Nourishing Seafood Soups
16. Creamy Seafood Chowder
Seafood Chowder is a delicious, rich creamy soup that is table ready in about 30 minutes. Tender shrimp, fish and scallops are combined in a creamy white wine broth with veggies. This flavor packed chowder recipe is a comfort food that can be easily enjoyed at home any day of the week!
17. Shrimp and Corn Chowder
This creamy, dreamy, spicy (or not spicy) Shrimp Corn Chowder recipe is easy to make and comforting to eat. It will warm and fill you and your family in the best possible way.
18. Cioppino (Italian Seafood Stew)
Cioppino is a hearty Italian-American stew, made with a medley of fresh seafood in a rich tomato and wine broth. This comforting soup perfectly captures the taste of the sea.
19. Thai Coconut Shrimp Soup
Thai Coconut Shrimp Soup is a gorgeous, healthy, flavor-packed soup recipe that will make your tastebuds tingle!
20. New England Clam Chowder
New England Clam Chowder is the ultimate comfort food, with tender clams, creamy potatoes and of course salty, smoky bacon. This easy clam chowder recipe is super easy to make and has rich flavor for the perfect bowl of comfort.
Wholesome Vegetarian Soups
21. Creamy Broccoli Cheddar Soup
This hearty broccoli cheddar soup is loaded with mouthwatering flavors, yet uses everyday ingredients, and is ready in about 30 minutes!
22. Moroccan Spiced Carrot Soup
Simple, delicious Moroccan Carrot Soup with Ginger, Coconut milk, fresh orange juice and warming Moroccan Spices. Vegan and Gluten-free. Bright & cheery!
23. Potato Leek Soup
A French classic, this creamy potato leek soup is quick, easy, and comforting.
24. Spinach and White Bean Soup
White bean soup with parmesan and spinach is ready in 10 minutes and loaded with flavour. Using minimal pantry staples with some fresh ingredients, you won’t believe the flavour coming out of this soup.
25. Thai Red Curry Vegetable Soup
This Thai Curry Vegetable Soup is packed with vegetables, spicy Thai flavor, and creamy coconut milk. Ready in about 30 minutes!
Unique and Interesting Soups
26. Japanese Miso Soup
It‘s super easy to make authentic and homemade Japanese Miso Soup. For this recipe, you will make a quick and easy soup stock (dashi) from scratch, then create classic miso soup with tofu and wakame seaweed. It‘s delicious and has many health benefits.
27. Indian Mulligatawny Soup
This fragrant Indian Mulligatawny Soup recipe is spiced with curry and made from creamy red lentils, carrots, apples, and coconut milk. It is ready in an hour, with only 15 minutes of real work. Make a double batch and freeze the leftovers!
28. Vietnamese Pho
Made from scratch with the signature broth that’s light yet at the same time so full of flavour, this Vietnamese Pho is infused with spices like cinnamon, star anise and cardamom. The soup is utterly addictive and every spoonful leaves you wanting more!
29. Borscht
You will love the deep ruby color of this Borsch soup. It’s so healthy and nutritious; packed with beans, beets, carrots, potatoes, and cabbage, it will feel so good serving this vibrant soup to your family.
30. Brazilian Black Bean Soup
This healthy vegetarian bean soup recipe draws inspiration from Brazil’s feijoada, a pork and black bean stew. Blackened jalapeños, fire-roasted tomatoes and smoked paprika give it plenty of flavor.
31. Italian Sausage and Tortellini Soup
This Creamy Sausage & Spinach Tortellini Soup is delicious, loaded with veggies and makes the perfect cozy meal that can easily be made in your instant pot, slow cooker or right on the stove!
32. Thai-inspired Coconut Curry Noodle Soup
This creamy Thai-inspired coconut noodle soup is the simplest weeknight dinner. Made with flavorful Thai curry paste, coconut milk, peanut butter, plenty of fresh herbs, and lime juice. Toss in extra crispy spicy chili garlic chickpeas and plenty of delicious egg noodles.
33. Hungarian Chicken Soup
Homemade Hungarian Chicken Soup is the ultimate comfort soup made with root vegetables, fresh parsley and often served with homemade egg noodles.
34. Irish Potato Soup with Bacon and Cheddar
This Irish Potato Soup is a great easy weeknight slow cooker recipe your family will love! This comforting bowl of soup is studded with bacon, shredded Welsh cheddar cheese and freshly chopped chives.
35. Spanish-style Gazpacho
A refreshing cold soup to enjoy on a hot summer’s day, this authentic Spanish Gazpacho really packs a tomato punch!
36. Hungarian Goulash
Hungarian Goulash is a yummy tomato, beef and potato stew, traditionally flavoured with paprika. This goulash will become a favourite in your household – it is healthy, very cheap to make, and luxuriously thick and rich.
37. Korean Kimchi Soup with Tofu
This spicy Korean Soup is made with tofu and kimchi. It takes less than 30 minutes, making it perfect for a weeknight meal! Hearty and warming!
38. Lebanese Lentil Soup (Shorbat Adas)
Lebanese Lentil Soup is rich, warming soup that combines red lentils, vegetables, curry powder, cumin and lemon juice. This soup naturally gluten-free and vegan, is easy to make and freezes well for later! Your family will love warming up to this soup in the cold months!
39. French Provencal Vegetable Soup (Soupe au Pistou)
A classic French country vegetable soup loaded with fresh, good-for-you veggies, and finished off with an unforgettable nut-free French pesto. Comfort food that is both healthy and hearty!
Healthy and Light Soups
40. Lemon Chicken Quinoa Soup
This lemon chicken soup is loaded with tender bites of chicken, quinoa and vegetables, all simmered in a cozy lemony chicken broth seasoned with thyme.
41. Turkey and Vegetable Soup
This comforting creamy turkey soup is a great way to repurpose your Thanksgiving leftovers. The vegetables are perfectly tender and the broth is creamy and flavorful—a perfect soup for when there’s a chill in the air!
42. Greek Lemon Chicken Soup (Avgolemono)
Ah-vgo-le-mono, as the Greeks pronounce it, is a silky, rich, fragrant chicken soup, prepared Greek-style with avgolemono sauce (lemon-egg sauce.) Best part, this weeknight version comes together in just over 30 minutes.
43. Spinach and Lentil Soup
The flavors in this easy lentil soup recipe will surprise you in a big way! This spicy lentil soup is loaded with aromatics and bold Mediterranean spices and amped up with spinach for a nutritious and satisfying vegan dinner.
44. Tomato and White Bean Soup
This is a white bean soup with a thick, creamy tomato broth that’s soothing, nourishing and extremely economical. It’s incredibly simple to make, yet full of savoury flavour. Use canned white beans for a 20 minute meal, or dried beans if you’ve got the time.
45. Creamy Mushroom Soup with Thyme
Homemade cream of mushroom soup is full of flavour and super easy to make. You won’t buy soup in a can again!
Quick and Easy Soups
46. 30-Minute Vegetable Soup
The best vegetable soup recipe – cozy, flavorful, fast, easy, and healthy! Learn how to make homemade vegetable soup in just 30 minutes.
47. Instant Pot Chicken and Rice Soup
Only 10 minutes of active prep time is needed for this comforting Chicken and Rice Soup! It’s a breeze to make in the Instant Pot.
48. One-Pot Pasta Fagioli
Pasta e Fagioli aka “Pasta Fazool” is an Italian stew made from pasta and beans. It is a complete meal made in just one pot and is so incredibly delicious.
49. 3-Ingredient Black Bean Soup
This 3-ingredient black bean soup recipe is easy to make. It’s full of protein and flavor, and can be thrown together quickly! Plus, you can make it vegan by using vegetable broth.
50. Microwave Mug Soup (for a single serving)
Learn how to make Microwave Potato Soup loaded with delicious ingredients like bacon, cheese and scallions. It’s a Mug Meal in just minutes!
5 Tips for Soup Making Success
- Stock your pantry with essentials like various stocks, dried herbs, grains, legumes, and canned goods for quick and flavorful soups.
- Choose fresh, seasonal produce, quality proteins, and balance flavors and textures for depth and variety.
- Utilize efficient kitchen tools like blenders, large pots, sharp knives, ladles, and strainers for smooth preparation.
- Store soups in airtight containers, label them, and freeze in portion sizes, considering ingredients that freeze well.
- Experiment with diverse flavors, textures, and cooking methods to create unique and delicious soups. Adjust seasoning as you go for your personal touch.
Conclusion
Simple Soup Recipes make the ultimate comfort food and offer endless possibilities for deliciousness. Don’t hesitate to get creative and try new recipes or put your own spin on old favorites. Got a soup recipe that always hits the spot? Share it with us! Let’s keep the soup love going and inspire each other to cook up a storm of cozy goodness. Cheers to soups and the joy they bring to our tables!
