20 Best Soup Recipes

20 Best Soup Recipes to warm you up, get you through the cold season and have something to take to your friends soup party.

Orecchiette, Ham and Kale Soup

1. Orecchiette, Ham and Kale Soup with a flavorful bone broth, creamy diced potato, and plenty of shaved parmesan on top.. This hearty Italian soup gets its rich flavor from simmering chicken broth with meaty ham bone. Pieces of tender ham become part of the soup, and the collagen gives the broth body.

Black Eyed Pea Soup

2. Black Eyed Pea Soup is a lucky New Year’s tradition with smoked ham and collard greens in a flavorful broth. Legend says if you eat 365 black eyed peas you will be lucky in the New Year. Each ingredient represents good fortune with the black eyed peas as coins, the collard greens as dollars and the ham as ‘cutting a fat hog‘.

Seafood Gumbo

3. Seafood Gumbo is rich and flavorful from creating a dark roux and adding crab, shrimp and spicy andouille sausage. Tender shrimp combines with buttery crab and spicy andouille sausage in a rich, complex base of bell peppers, celery and onion, known as the holy trinity, bay leaves, seafood broth and okra. This Cajun stew is served with white rice and crusty French bread for sopping up the juices. It’s a relatively simple recipe once you have created the perfect roux.

Winter Vegetable Barley Soup

4. Winter Vegetable Barley Soup is simple, a little rustic and packed with all the good stuff to keep you healthy. Winter vegetables often get overlooked, but they shine in this soup. They’re the last to be pulled from the garden, the hearty ones. Roots, bulbs and tubers like carrots, parsnips, celery onion, and potatoes plus hearty greens like lacinato kale and herbs come together for a flavorful soup. Add in pearl barley and it’s a hearty soup.

Bistro French Onion Soup

5. Bistro French Onion Soup with rich, flavorful beef broth and slowly caramelized onions topped with French bread croutons and gruyere cheese. A classic, cozy soup reminiscent of sitting in a French bistro. Oversized seasoned croutons lend to a perfect bite with a delicious Gruyere cheese pull and hints of fresh thyme. This is the ultimate comfort food and it’s a must have for cold winter nights. This recipe makes enough for six large bowls and freezes well.

Roasted Parsnip Soup with Crispy Fried Shallots

6. Roasted Parsnip Soup with Crispy Fried Shallots is easy to make and it’s easy on the budget too. Roasting parsnips brings out their earthy sweet flavor in this winter soup. Perfect for a cold day when you want to cozy up by the fire. Plus it’s loaded in Vitamin C and super filling. Top it with crispy fried shallots or your favorite toppings like bacon or chives.

Dungeness Crab & Corn Chowder

7. Dungeness Crab & Corn Chowder is a Pacific Northwest favorite, rich and creamy with lump crab, sweet corn, red potatoes and fresh tarragon. Crab and corn are the perfect pair, creating the kind of chowder you want to savor every bite.  The addition of fresh tarragon plays on the sweetness of the Dungeness crab without being overpowering. I like to save a few of the larger lump pieces of crab together with corn and bacon to garnish the top of my chowder bowl.  

Corn Chowder

8. Corn chowder is creamy and bursting with bits of fresh corn, tender potatoes, cilantro and crispy bacon bits. If you are lucky enough to have fresh local corn, be sure to use it for this recipe. If not, you could use frozen or a mixture of frozen for the base and fresh mixed in for texture.

OUT WEST Cowboy Steak Chili

9. Out West Cowboy Steak Chili combines tender steak, pinto beans and poblano chili peppers for a hearty meal with a subtle campfire cooked taste. Big flavor on a budget. Turn that chuck roast, a can of pinto beans and a few produce items into a ‘sink your teeth’ into bowl of delicious chili. And…if you have any – HOLD the TOMATOES- guests, this recipe is for you! There are absolutely no tomatoes in this recipe. Yep, it gets all it’s flavor from chilies, spices and my favorite salsa verde. You can buy the can from the store or make my favorite.

Poblano Corn Tortilla Soup

10. Crunchy tortilla chips soak up the flavorful broth in this Out West Poblano Corn Tortilla Soup garnished with cilantro, lime and Queso Oaxaca. There is something about the simplicity of tortilla soup. Crunchy corn tortilla chips laying in a simple broth soaking up all the flavor of green chilies. This Poblano Corn Tortilla Soup adds moderately spiced poblano peppers and sweet corn for a twist on the classic version.

Acorn Squash Soup

11. Acorn Squash Soup is warm and creamy with earthy spices like paprika, turmeric, cumin and chipotle, topped with fried sage and pepitas. This beautifully colored soup is like a warm sweater feeling all cozy. It’s blended with spices that have a southwest vibe and topped with crispy fried sage and nutty pepitas. It really screams fall and winter, but of course you could make it any season.

Frijoles Charros

12. Frijoles Charros is creamy and comforting with chorizo and bacon, topped with crispy tortilla strips and crumbled cotija cheese. You know the bean dip that you get at the local Mexican restaurant? Well, if you are anything like my family you devour it within minutes..and ask for more! These Frijoles Charros a.k.a. cowboy beans are reminiscent of those beans only made into a flavorful, filling soup. 

White Chicken Poblano Chili

13. White Chicken Poblano Chili is creamy with hearty beans, flavorful poblano and bits of sweet corn. a comforting change from the classic beef chili. This comforting chili starts off with big flavor from browning the chicken thighs in bacon fat then transferring to the oven and roasted for even more depth of flavor.

Carne en su Jugo

14. Carne en su Jugo is a flavorful broth of tomatillos and spices with bits of steak, pinto beans and smoky bacon served with a variety of toppings such as radish and cilantro. I’m re-naming this soup the ‘feel good’ soup because after just one slurp, you can’t help but feel good. There’s something about the concentration of flavors in the broth that soothe your soul.

OUT WEST Clam Chowder

15. Out West Clam Chowder is a creamy classic made with chopped canned clams, red potatoes, celery, onion and tarragon, topped with bacon and homemade croutons. The addition of French tarragon and baby red potatoes takes this diner-style chowder up a notch.  Tarragon is the perfect herb to accent a variety of seafood dishes. Its sweet aromatic taste adds an elegant feel to anything from chowder to fish. Using baby red potatoes in place of russet potatoes adds extra creaminess.

Farm Style Clam Chowder

16. Farm Style Clam Chowder combines fresh manila clams, sliced baby potatoes, a splash of sherry, cream, tarragon and smoky bacon. This cream based chowder has a splash of sherry and fresh tarragon for a flavorful twist on the classic. The addition of creamy red and yellow baby potatoes cut in slices add to the rustic farm style. Topped with crumbled smoky bacon and freshly steamed manila clams, this bowl delivers the full flavor of the pacific northwest.

Smoked Salmon Corn Chowder

17. Smoked Salmon Corn Chowder is smoky, creamy, a little bit rustic and ribboned with the subtle flavor of tarragon making this a Pacific Northwest favorite. A little bit fancier than the classic clam chowder, we add tender corn, red bell pepper and tarragon together with creamy baby red and white potatoes.

Smoky Potato Leek Soup

18. Smoky Potato Leek Soup combines a variety of farm style sliced creamy potatoes, garden leeks, smoked bacon and serrano pepper. What makes this Smoky Potato Leek Soup different from the rest?  It’s the way we cut the potatoes in a rustic farm style fashion, the addition of earthy leeks in place of onions and the serrano pepper for that Out West flare. 

Portuguese Caldo Verde

19. Portuguese Caldo Verde, delivers soul warming goodness with simple ingredients of potato, spicy sausage and kale. This broth based soup is perfect for the first crisp days of fall and the depths of winter. I feel like broth based soups are the best at warming your body right down to your bones and this takes only 30 minutes to make.

Easy Weeknight Beef Stew

20. Easy Weeknight Beef Stew quickly cooked with large pieces of tri-tip steak, creamy gold potatoes, carrots, mushrooms and peas. There’s nothing quite like coming home to the comforting aroma of a simmering pot of beef stew on a chilly weeknight. While the idea of a slow-cooked stew might seem reserved for lazy Sundays, we’re here to prove that a delicious, hearty beef stew can be a weeknight reality. With a few clever shortcuts and time-saving tips, you can enjoy the rich flavors and tender beef chunks without spending hours in the kitchen.