Side Dish, Soups & Stew Recipes

Chinese crab and corn soup, the restaurant favorite, made light at home. Half the corn is pureed for a naturally creamy body, the rest left whole, with fresh crab, ginger, and a quick cornstarch thickening.

Luxuriously creamy Colombian avocado vichyssoise with leeks, potatoes, and heavy cream. Serve it hot or cold as an elegant first course before fish. Ready in just 30 minutes.

Velvety spinach soup with garlic, cream, and tender pasta ready in just 20 minutes for an elegant weeknight dinner that tastes like it took hours.

This creamy cheddar cheese soup recipe is easy to prepare and creates a satisfying light lunch or dinner nearly any day of the week.

This delicious Indian stew is made with chickpeas, lentils, pastas and the herb mixture, it's tasty, flavorful and filling. A bowl of stew has almost all the nutritions and flavors you need.

Easy fish bisque built on canned cream of cheddar and tomato bisque soups, then simmered with milk, dry sherry, dill and flaky whitefish. A creamy seafood soup ready in under 10 minutes.

Warm porcini soup turned into a silky, airy foam: porcini and portobello cooked down with white wine and cream, blended smooth, strained, then charged in an iSi whipper for a cloud-light mushroom espuma.

To the delight of clam lovers on the East Coast and Pacific Northwest, clams are available year round. OK, let's make some clams.

Spring asparagus soup with tender asparagus pieces simmered in milk or cream with butter and black pepper. A bare-bones four-ingredient soup that lets fresh asparagus shine.

A simple and tasty pea soup that's perfect for a rainy day where you are indoors.