241 leek soup recipes

Chilled cucumber soup, a creamy cold starter of cucumbers simmered with leek, celery, and sherry, thickened and enriched with light cream, then brightened with a splash of orange juice. Cool and elegant.

Low-fat roasted vegetable stock made with caramelized onions, carrots, leeks, and celery. This vegetarian brown stock adds deep, savory flavor to soups, risottos, and sauces without a drop of meat.

A traditional Welsh leek soup simmered in mutton stock with onions and celery, puréed smooth, and finished with double cream and fresh parsley. Hearty, silky, and steeped in Celtic cooking tradition.

Bone-in chicken poached with leeks and celery in a silky egg yolk-and-cream enriched broth with lemon. A refined French-style braised chicken that's pure elegance in a soup plate.

Classic white veal stock simmered for 4 hours with veal bones, leeks, carrots, and peppercorns. A foundational French kitchen staple that sets into a rich, gelatinous stock for sauces, soups, and braises.

Scandinavian split pea soup slow-cooked with salt pork, frankfurters, carrots, leeks, and thyme. A hearty, thick one-pot supper that simmers for 10 hours in a crockpot. Traditional Nordic comfort food.

Homemade vegetable broth simmered with leeks, fennel, turnips, carrots, mushrooms, herbs and white wine. A clear, flavorful stock base for vegetarian soups, risottos and braises. Yields 8 cups in under an hour.

Grape harvester's soup is a French country pot-au-feu with garlic-studded chuck roast, cabbage, turnips, leeks, and tomatoes simmered until fork-tender. A hearty, rustic one-pot meal for cold weather.

Two whole chickens simmered with leeks, carrots, celery, and fresh thyme yield a crystal-clear broth and tender diced meat. A from-scratch chicken soup that's worth every minute of the 2.5-hour simmer.

A low-fat creamy mushroom soup made with dried oyster, morel, and porcini mushrooms plus fresh portabellos, simmered with leeks and curry in skim milk. Finished with dry sherry and fresh chervil. Ready in 25 minutes.

Hearty homemade beef and vegetable soup made with tender short ribs, carrots, parsnips, green beans, and leeks in a rich, defatted broth. Simmered low and slow with fresh dill and parsley for deep, comforting flavor.

A from-scratch vegetable bean soup simmered for hours with dried kidney beans, chunky potatoes, carrots, zucchini, leeks, savoy cabbage, and brown rice. Old-fashioned, freezer-friendly, and endlessly customizable. One big pot feeds 8.

Mushroom and barley soup made in the pressure cooker, loaded with carrots, celery, leeks and two kinds of mushrooms. Chewy pearl barley and a bright dill finish make this a hearty, meatless one-pot bowl.

Mike's fish fumet is a clean, aromatic homemade fish stock simmered from fish trimmings, leeks, and herbs with a splash of tarragon vinegar for brightness. The French base for chowders, seafood soups, and pan sauces.

Oven-baked beef and vegetable soup with short ribs, leeks, carrots, celery, mushrooms, and small pasta in a rich homemade broth. Slow-baked for tender, fall-off-the-bone beef and layered flavor in every spoonful.

Five Lilies Chowder is an allium-lover's soup built from five members of the lily family: onions, shallots, garlic, leeks, and chives. A light, elegant chowder with white wine and sherry in a clear chicken broth base.