21 Healthy Soup Recipes Perfect For Warming You Up This Cozy Season
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Is there any better pick-me-up than a comforting, healthy soup recipe? Especially this time of year, when the weather is finally cooling off, it's getting dark earlier, and we're gearing up for the always-busy holiday season: we want to feel cozy and calm, and that's just what soup delivers. We'd argue that the comfort soup brings starts before you even sit down with a warm, nourishing bowl. Selecting a hygge recipe, gathering together the good-for-you ingredients, spending time on meditative chopping and simmering, letting the mouth-watering smells permeate your house — all of these steps can feel just as calming and health-giving as ladling out and eating the finished product.
Have we convinced you yet? While store-bought soups can be just the ticket, sometimes it's worth making a healthy soup recipe from scratch. And we have a list that includes a healthy soup recipe for every appetite, dietary requirement, and desired vibe. Whether you're a meat eater, vegan, or vegetarian, you'll find the perfect soup in this list of recipes to fit your needs. Keep reading for a list of healthy chicken soup recipes, healthy vegetable soup recipes, healthy bean soup recipes, homemade noodle soup recipes, and more.
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Healthy Soup Recipe: "Tortilla-Less" Soup
If you love the bold flavors of tortilla soup, this "tortilla-less" version will hit the spot while still helping you stay healthy.
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Healthy Soup Recipe: Chicken Sopas
This hearty soup is guaranteed to earn a permanent spot on your cozy-season recipe rotation. Traditionally, the Filipino soup is made with evaporated milk, but this version of chicken sopas uses coconut milk, making it a great dairy-free option.
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Healthy Soup Recipe: Chicken Pozole
This chicken pozole recipe, originally from Jaclyn of Cooking Classy uses chicken in place of the pork traditionally found in pozole, but it's still packed with flavor.
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Healthy Soup Recipe: Homemade Ramen
You might not think of ramen as a healthy soup, but that's a mistake. This homemade ramen-inspired recipe cuts down on the sodium found in the packaged kind and adds good-for-you mushrooms and protein-packed chicken. Plus, don't you want to be able to tell your friends that you made homemade ramen over the weekend?
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Healthy Soup Recipe: Butternut Squash and Lentil Soup
Set up your slow cooker and whip up this easy butternut squash and lentil soup that packs 17 grams of fiber.
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Healthy Soup Recipe: Detoxifying Ginger and Carrot Soup
Packed with vitamins plus a punch of bright ginger, this detoxifying ginger and carrot soup will help keep you healthy and energized.
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Healthy Soup Recipe: Chrissy Teigen's Minestrone Soup
Minestrone soups are underrated. They're chock-full of healthy vegetables, but they taste incredibly nourishing and even kind of nostalgic — so many of us were served the healthy soup as children when we needed to warm up. Chrissy Teigen's minestrone soup includes chili mayo toasts that are optional, but . . . you don't want to skip the addition.
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Healthy Soup Recipe: Broccoli and Arugula Soup
This Gwyneth Paltrow-approved broccoli and arugula soup will warm you up on a cold night.
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Healthy Soup Recipe: Detox Soup
If you're craving something warm and fresh, this detox soup will boost weight loss while still filling you up.
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Healthy Soup Recipe: Coconut Pumpkin Bisque
Combining sweet pumpkin and rich coconut, this rich bisque captures the flavors of fall.
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Healthy Soup Recipe: Paleo Vegetable Soup
After a sweat session at the gym, a piping-hot bowl of this Paleo Santa Fe-style vegetable soup will satisfy your hunger pangs.
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Healthy Soup Recipe: Vegan Tomato Soup
Whether or not you pair this nourishing (and TikTok-famous) vegan tomato soup recipe with a (dairy-free) grilled cheese sandwich is up to you.
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Healthy Soup Recipe: Curried Pumpkin Soup
This curried pumpkin soup is so filling, flavorful, and nourishing — and the best part is it lasts great in the fridge or freezer, so you can make a large batch and store it in individual servings to pull out whenever you need to warm up.
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Healthy Soup Recipe: Pumpkin-Spice Chili Recipe
Some of you won't consider this pumpkin-spice chili a "true" chili, if only because of the addition of beans. Whatever you call it, though, it's a revelation — and it can easily be made vegetarian.
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Healthy Soup Recipe: Roasted Red Pepper Soup
It looks like tomato, but this rich, nourishing roasted red pepper soup from Show Me the Yummy won't confuse your taste buds — it celebrates the red pepper, a powerhouse of vitamins C and A (immune-boosting nutrients, just in time for sick season).
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Healthy Soup Recipe: Vegetable Soup
This veggie soup from Dinner at the Zoo will make you feel good with every spoonful — you know you're getting your daily recommended amount of produce, but you aren't sacrificing taste.
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Healthy Soup Recipe: Broccoli Lentil Soup
Show Me the Yummy has a knack for creating gorgeous soups, and its broccoli lentil soup is no exception. Filling lentils, good-for-you broccoli, a warming broth — what more could you need?
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Healthy Soup Recipe: Slow-Cooker Lentil Soup With Sausage
This lentil and sausage soup from Foxes Love Lemons has it all: protein, fiber, and a recipe that lets you set it and forget it.
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Healthy Soup Recipe: Instant Pot Vegan Black Bean Soup
Have this once, and you'll be craving it all year long. There's simply nothing more satisfying than settling in over a bowl of black beans, and this Instant Pot vegan black bean soup from A Spicy Perspective is one of the best you'll try.
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Healthy Soup Recipe: Sunchoke Apple Soup
Sunchokes — the star of this unique soup from A Cozy Kitchen — contain prebiotics, which are good for your gut health.