Soup Recipes

Chilled cantaloupe soup blended with fresh mint, white wine, and yogurt. A no-cook summer starter with just 5 ingredients that needs only a blender and a couple hours to chill.

Chilled raspberry soup with sour cream, dry sherry, pineapple juice, and grenadine, thickened with gelatin and refrigerated overnight. An elegant cold dessert soup.

Chilled zucchini basil soup pureed smooth with lemon juice and a touch of hot sauce. A light, creamy cold soup for summer that uses up garden zucchini.

A warming Chinese winter soup with mushrooms, spinach, and silky tofu in a tangy sesame-soy broth spiked with hot pepper oil. Vegan, cozy, and ready in 40 minutes.

A creamy, low-calorie vegetable chowder with broccoli, mushrooms, corn, and pimiento in a light chicken broth and evaporated milk base. Warm, filling comfort food on the table in 30 minutes.

A refined French Canadian Christmas oyster soup with gently warmed oysters in buttery milk infused with grated carrots and celery. Elegant, briny, and on the table in 40 minutes.

Chunky peanut soup with a creamy peanut butter base, loaded with potatoes, zucchini, mushrooms, sweet halibut, and peas, then brightened with lemon and cayenne. A hearty West African-inspired bowl.

Peruvian-style shrimp chowder with flounder, potatoes, corn, and cream cheese in a spicy tomato broth, garnished with fresh mint. A rich seafood soup ready in 45 minutes.

A massive-batch New England clam chowder with sharp cheddar cheese, potatoes, celery, and 30 cans of minced clams. Feeds 60 people. Built for church suppers, family reunions, and community cookouts.

Clam chowder with pasta is a brothy, Italian-style tomato clam soup with little ditalini cooked right in, brightened with garlic, white wine and a kick of dried chili. A rustic, coastal one-pot bowl.

Maine-style clam chowder simmers ground clams, salt pork, potatoes, and onions in evaporated milk for a brothy, no-flour Down East soup. The lean New England original, served with crackers.

Caramelized onions melted into rich beef stock create the soul-warming French soup that's been comforting diners since Les Halles market days in Paris.

A vegetable-loaded Italian minestrone with eggplant, beans, spinach, cabbage, and pasta, finished with a swirl of homemade pesto alla Genovese. Rustic, hearty, and full of garden-fresh flavor.

Cold avocado soup blended with half-and-half, chicken broth, and lemon juice until silky smooth. A no-cook, 15-minute chilled soup that's creamy, refreshing, and rich.

Elegant chilled sour cherry soup with dry red wine, heavy cream, and cherry liqueur. Cinnamon-spiced fruit course served cold in summer with mint and sour cream.

Velvety cold curried carrot soup with coconut milk, ginger, and lime, topped with crisp shrimp. A showstopping chilled soup starter that's worth every minute of chill time.