60 Winter Soups That Will Warm Your Heart, Soul, and Universe

Hello and welcome to this thing we’re doing where we help you figure out what you’re gonna put in your mouth this week. Some of these are recipes we’ve tried, some of these are recipes we’re looking forward to trying, all of them are fucking delicious. Tell us what you want to put in your piehole or suggest your own recipes, and we’ll talk about which things we made, which things we loved, and which things have changed us irreversibly as people. Last week, we ate mac n’ cheese.


Winter is coming. (Is that joke old yet?) And you might as well get ready for it now, during prime squash and gourd season, to maximize your winter soup lifestyle. There’s nothing like a thick, creamy, substantial, or otherwise totally hot soup to stave off the winter blues and keep you from freezing to death!


1. Stuffed Pepper Soup

Stuffed Pepper Soup


2. Autumn Chowder

Autumn Chowder


3. Broccoli Cheddar Beer Soup

Broccoli Cheddar Beer Soup


4. Cream of Mushroom Soup

Cream of Mushroom Soup


5. Winter Minestrone

Winter Minestrone


6. Winter Tomato Soup with Bulgur

Winter Tomato Soup with Bulgur


7. Winter Greens Soup

Winter Greens Soup


8. Five-Bean Chili

Five-Bean Chili


9. Chickpea and Rice Soup with Kale

Chickpea & Rice Soup With A Little Kale


10. Carrot Soup

Carrot Soup


11. Tuscan White Bean Soup

tuscan white bean soup


12. Spinach Lentil Soup

Spinach Lentil Soup


13. Lasagna Soup

Lasagna Soup


14. Golden Winter Soup

Golden Winter Soup


15. Kale and Quinoa Minestrone

Kale and Quinoa Minestrone


16. Cheesy Chicken Enchilada Soup

20-Minute Cheesy Chicken Enchilada Soup


17. Black Bean, Sweet Potato, and Red Quinoa Soup

Black Bean, Sweet Potato, and Red Quinoa Soup


18. Baked Potato Cheddar Soup

Baked Potato Cheddar Soup


19. Miso Lentil Soup

Miso Lentil Soup


20. Creamy Vegetable and Gnocchi Soup

Creamy Vegetable and Gnocchi Soup


21. French Onion Soup

French Onion Soup


22. Brie and Cheddar Apple Beer Soup with Cinnamon Pecan Oat Crumble

Brie and Cheddar Apple Beer Soup with Cinnamon Pecan Oat Crumble


23. Baked Tomato Cheese and Bread Soup

Baked Tomato Cheese and Bread Soup


24. Jerusalem Artichoke Soup

Jerusalem Artichoke Soup


25. Quinoa Vegetarian Chili

Quinoa Vegetarian Chili


26. Cinderella Pumpkin Stew

Cinderella Pumpkin Stew


27. Curried Sweet Potato-Apple Soup

Curried Sweet Potato-Apple Soup


28. Beef Goulash

Beef Goulash


29. Red Lentil Coconut Soup

Red Lentil Coconut Soup


30. Creamy Tomato Tortellini Soup

Creamy Tomato Tortellini Soup


31. Harira Moroccan Style Vegetable Soup

Harira Moroccan Style Vegetable Soup


32. Leek and Parsnip Soup

Leek and Parsnip Soup


33. Asian-Style Dumpling Soup

Asian-Style Dumpling Soup


34. Two-Bean Soup with Kale

Two-Bean Soup with Kale


35. Herbed Acorn Squash Bisque

Herbed Acorn Squash Bisque


36. Butternut Squash Apple Soup

Butternut Squash Apple Soup


37. Southwestern Soup

Southwestern Soup


38. Roasted Jalapeno Soup

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39. North African Chickpea and Kale Soup

North African Chickpea and Kale Soup


40. Super Greens Soup

Super Greens Soup


41. White Bean and Roasted Mushroom Soup

White Bean and Roasted Mushroom Soup


42. Mushroom Barley Soup

Mushroom Barley Soup


43. Dill Pickle and Potato Soup

DILL PICKLE AND POTATO SOUP


44. West African Peanut Soup

West African Peanut Soup


45. Cream of Zucchini Soup

Cream of Zucchini Soup


46. Spinach and Artichoke Dip Tortellini Soup

Spinach and Artichoke Dip Tortellini Soup


47. Thai Butternut Squash, Sweet Potato, Carrot Soup with Roasted Honey Sriracha Squash Seeds

Thai Butternut Squash, Sweet Potato, Carrot Soup with Roasted Honey Sriracha Squash Seeds


48. Pumpkin, Corn, and Lemongrass Soup

Pumpkin, Corn, and Lemongrass Soup


49. Creamy Curried Broccoli Soup with Coriander Marinated Mung Bean Sprouts

Creamy Curried Broccoli Soup with Coriander Marinated Mung Bean Sprouts


50. Loaded Mashed Potato Soup

Loaded Mashed Potato Soup


51. Dried Fava Soup with Mint and Guajillo Chiles

Dried Fava Soup with Mint and Guajillo Chiles


52. Green Lentil Soup with Coconut Milk and Spices

Lentil-Coconut Soup


53. Spicy Eggplant Chili

Spicy Eggplant Chili


54. Mushroom Soup

Mushroom Soup


55. Vegetarian Pho (with Optional Beef)

Vegetarian Pho (with Optional Beef)


56. Chickpea Rice Soup with Cabbage

Chickpea Rice Soup with Cabbage


57. Chunky Winter Vegetable Soup

Chunky Winter Vegetable Soup


58. Lemony Lentil Soup

Lemony Lentil Soup


59. Veggie Pot Pie Soup

Veggie Pot Pie Soup


60. Creamy Red Lentil and Kale Soup

Creamy Red Lentil and Kale Soup

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Carmen

Carmen spent six years at Autostraddle, ultimately serving as Straddleverse Director, Feminism Editor and Social Media Co-Director. She is now the Consulting Digital Editor at Ms. and writes regularly for DAME, the Women’s Media Center, the National Women’s History Museum and other prominent feminist platforms; her work has also been published in print and online by outlets like BuzzFeed, Bitch, Bust, CityLab, ElixHER, Feministing, Feminist Formations, GirlBoss, GrokNation, MEL, Mic and SIGNS, and she is a co-founder of Argot Magazine. You can find Carmen on Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr or in the drive-thru line at the nearest In-N-Out.

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18 Comments

  1. Yes! My plan is to subsist on hearty soups all winter, so this list is just what I needed. Thanks Autostraddle, for helping me maximize my winter soup lifestyle.

  2. I made butternut squash and apple soup a few days ago and it’s deliiiicious! It was my first time making it, so I’d make some tweaks for future batches–but what a lot of recipes fail to mention is adding a liiiiiittle bit of brown sugar. It really makes a world of difference.

    • Where I live you can’t find fairy godmothers and talking mice in the stores anywhere. Can you order them online?

  3. this whole post is [prayer hands emoji]

    ALSO i just want to throw in a commendation for the dried fava bean soup with guajillo — i know it may not look remarkable especially given the cornucopia of soups here, but please trust me it is THE BUSINESS.

  4. Yum!!!! Soup is the only thing that makes cold weather tolerable. I usually just eat endless cans of Progresso all winter, but these soups look so good I might try making my own!

  5. I got unreasonably excited when I saw the title of this article. And then even more so seeing all the recipes. Thank you for supplying me with soups to get me through the harsh Midwestern winter.
    brb gonna go enjoy my fancy winter minestrone and write a sonnet about it

  6. Someone needs to make a way to delay all seasonal recipe posts by six months so they get to me during the right season #southernhemisphereproblems

  7. I live alone, so I have a tendency to get excited about recipes and make lots, freeze the rest, and then decide to make something new. This inevitably ends up with a freezer that looks like I’m preparing for the apocalypse. This column is a wonderful (terrible?) enabler of said habit

  8. 60! This is overwhelming! I want to try them all, but I live alone and only cook for one person.
    #22 looks so wonderful!

  9. Heads up: #28 Beef Goulash actually links to a recipe for Tomato Basil Soup…

    I’m definitely going to try one of these tonight :)

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