Soups & Stew recipe collection

Fire stew is a slow-cooked ham, lentil, and kidney bean stew with a full 14 ounces of hot sauce stirred in. A four-hour low simmer that's serious heat in every spoonful.

Fish broth with oysters and saffron simmers a homemade fish fumet with juniper, leeks, and white wine, then adds clams, just-curled oysters, mung bean threads, radicchio, and saffron at serving. A delicate, restaurant-style seafood consomme.

Creamy fish soup with fennel, hake and flounder, simmered in homemade fish stock with leek, carrot, and lovage. A two-fish European-style chowder finished with sour cream and chopped fennel fronds.

Five dahl soup, an Indian vegetarian classic blending mung beans, pigeon peas, chickpeas, and yellow and green split peas with ghee, turmeric, ginger, and a fragrant tarka of cumin, chilies, and asafetida.

Five-bean soup with lima, great northern, kidney, pinto beans and split peas simmered with cumin, savory, bay leaf, and stewed tomatoes. A hearty from-scratch bean soup.

Three-ingredient foil-wrapped pot roast with onion soup mix and mushrooms, baked low and slow until fork-tender. A hands-off beef chuck roast that makes its own gravy in the packet.

Traditional French onion soup starting with homemade beef bone stock simmered for 3 hours, then finished with caramelized onions and melted Gruyere. This from-scratch version takes patience but delivers deep, rich flavor.

Classic French onion soup with deeply caramelized onions simmered in beef broth and white wine, ladled into bowls with crusty bread and broiled under a bubbly Swiss and Parmesan cheese cap.

French-style beef stew braised low and slow in Burgundy wine with cream of mushroom soup, onion soup mix, baby carrots, and green olives. Four hours in the oven, almost no prep.

Fruity gazpacho with blended tomatoes, peaches, apple, blackberries, cucumber, and yellow bell pepper in vegetable stock. A chilled summer soup with fresh fruit and no cooking required.

Hearty garbanzo bean soup with carrots, celery, onion, and lemon juice, finished with a swirl of sour cream and fresh dill. A creamy Mediterranean-leaning bowl.

Vegan garbanzo squash stew with chickpeas, winter squash, tomatoes, and fresh spinach simmered in spicy tomato broth. A high-fiber plant-based one-pot stew that comes together in under an hour.

Vegan garlic soup with three whole bulbs of fresh garlic, pearl barley, wild rice, potatoes, and mushrooms in a thyme-rosemary broth. A hearty, low-fat soup that improves overnight.

Creamy garlic soup made with a full pound of garlic cloves slow-cooked in olive oil, pureed with chicken broth, and finished with milk. Surprisingly mellow and silky.

Vegan garlic soup with pearl barley, wild rice, potatoes, carrots, and celery. Built on a base of 25 mashed garlic cloves simmered in water. Hearty, restorative, and gluten-free with tamari.

Gazpacho ice blends fresh tomatoes, cucumber, and red onion into a frozen savory sorbet with cayenne heat, churned smooth and topped with paper-thin cucumber slices.