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Soup doesn’t just keep us warm—it also nourishes, comforts, and fills our homes with the best cozy aromas of the season. As fall settles in, I’ve got a lineup of healthy soup recipes that are perfect for chilly evenings, meal prep Sundays, or anytime you want something hearty and wholesome.
These ten incredible soups are all part of my 10-Day Soup Challenge. Each one is made with whole food, plant-based ingredients, packed with flavor, and ready to be a part of your fall menu. I love soup and make it often—even while living in Florida. A good cup of soup helps me pretend cooler weather is on the way.
As we move into the fall season, there are also so many new veggies coming up and ready to be put in hearty, savory dishes. If you’re vegan, make sure to check out my 25 Best Vegan Soup Recipes Roundup.
Top Healthy Soup Recipes
These soup recipes for Fall will hopefully help you find a few go-to meals that you can make and freeze to use throughout the season. Feel free to pair these soups with other dishes for a complete meal if they seem a little light on their own. While the Simple Ramen is a perfect lunch, I love pairing the Tomato Soup with Vegan Basil Pesto on toast or adding a Kale Caesar Salad to enjoy alongside some Vegan Potato Soup.
Vegan Potato Soup
Red Lentil Soup
Bieler’s Blended Vegetable Soup
1-Pot Vegetable Noodle Soup
Vegan Tomato Soup
Slow Cooker Vegan Minestrone Soup
Vegan Thai Coconut Soup (Tom Kha)
Vegetarian Tortilla Soup
Instant Vegetarian Ramen
Vegetarian Split Pea Soup
Healthy Soup Toppings to Maximize Flavor
Sometimes you find a soup recipe in need of a bit of oomph. I get it (I put hot sauce on a lot of dishes). Here are two quick n’ easy recipes I keep on hand in a flavor emergency, or just to jazz up my meal:
- Cashew cream: A good vegan sour cream can provide depth and creaminess to almost any recipe. If you’d add sour cream to a soup, then you can add this!
- Pesto: There’s just something about pesto that instantly levels up a recipe. I love adding a dollop of vegan pesto to a good vegetable soup. It’s just so good! I’ve got a few different variations you can try, and they all freeze well.
- Vegan cheese sprinkle: Parmesan is a staple in many American households. This vegan cheese sprinkle certainly gives Kraft’s a run for its money, and its made with real ingredients that really do add a cheesy finish to your dish.
Healthy Fall Soup Ingredients
While I love the berries, squashes, and crispy produce of Summer, I find myself craving the buttery, hearty veggies of Fall. You’ll find many fall-fresh ingredients in the above healthy soup recipes because ingredients used in their proper season contain the most nutrients. If you’re creating a fall kitchen garden, then pick from this list!
| Artichokes | Chiles | Pumpkins |
| Arugula | Edamame | Radishes |
| Beets | Eggplant | Shallots |
| Broccoli | Fennel | Spinach |
| Brussels Sprouts | Garlic | Sweet potatoes |
| Cabbage | Herbs | Tomatillos |
| Carrots | Kale | Turnips |
| Cauliflower | Leeks | Wild Mushrooms |
| Celery | Onions | Winter Squash |
| Chard | Potatoes | Zucchini |
Common Questions
There are a variety of soups that boast incredibly healthy benefits. All ten of the soups on my list are made with whole food, plant-based ingredients. They use seasonal produce that packs the biggest nutrient punch, and they leave out inflammatory dairy products (nothing against dairy, yet it causes an inflammatory response in a lot of people!). Use limited ingredients or homemade vegetable stock with limited sodium as well.
There are a variety of soups that boast incredibly healthy benefits. All ten of the soups on my list are made with whole food, plant-based ingredients. They use seasonal produce that packs the biggest nutrient punch, and they leave out inflammatory dairy products (nothing against dairy, yet it causes an inflammatory response in a lot of people!). Use limited ingredients or homemade vegetable stock with limited sodium as well.
While there is no ‘magic soup’ for weight loss, as there are so many factors that contribute to a person losing weight, you can’t go wrong with using whole food, plant-based ingredients in your soup. Make a soup that will fill you up and not leave you hungry 30 minutes later. When I’m looking for a hearty soup I go with my Spiced Lentil Soup, Split Pea Soup or Minestrone. All these are great options for delicious, healthy meals.
I have to admit that I was a bit skeptical if I could make 10 soups in 10 days, but it was great fun! I enlisted the help of my husband and we enjoyed cooking and rating the soups each evening for dinner. I tried new types of recipes, notably the roasted red pepper soup. I have always been intimidated by the thought of roasting red peppers, but I stepped out of my comfort zone and now I know how easy it is. I will definitely be considering more roasted pepper recipe options in the future. There were several soups that will be in my rotation now:
Thai Coconut, Spicy Roasted Red Pepper, 1-Pot Paprika Corn Chowder, and the “grand prize winner” Carrot Ginger (most elegant, flavorful, and eye-appealing). Thanks for the opportunity to try new recipes and to share results and comments with the soup challenge community!
I really enjoyed all these soups but my favorite was the Thai Coconut Soup. It was so easy to make and really packs a flavor punch. My family even talked about some other favorite vegetables to add when we make it next time. It will definitely be in our regular rotation.
This challenge helped me branch out from my normal routine of salads for lunch. I will have soups to enjoy this winter to get in my daily veggies when it is cold and I’m not in the mood for salads.
I loved most of the soups, but the very first tomato soup was the favorite for me and my family. I actually had to make an two extra batches of it because after I shared with mom, aunt, uncle, sister, niece, nephew and, of course, my husband and daughter, everyone wanted more! Second runner up was the black bean. One thing that I received from doing this challenge was a few soup meals to put into rotation! And one (the tomato) that my very carnivorous husband even LOVED!! It’s tricky to find recipes that satisfy my vegan self and daughter as well as my meat-eating husband.
Well I’m have a few favorite soup but as of today it’s A toss up between red lentil curry and carrots ginger. I like them because I was surprised not only in the flavors but in how good and nutrition they are .that my kid ate them and I found I really like them. As positive results my whole family has eating more and wider verity of veggies and my son said he feels better and I can keep doing this. Think green smoothie will be are next try because I can’t do soup in the summer. To hot here for that.
I will have to say my favorite recipe from the challenge is the tomato. It was a simple and classic soup that was well liked in my family. This challenge help me work on my meal prep planning and gave me more than a few new meals to add to my rotation. I definately ate more meatless meals and introduced most of these recipes to my coworkers when I took left overs to work to share. Thank you for setting up this challenge.
These were all awesome soup recipes, but I think my favorite was the Thai Coconut Soup. I really enjoyed the challenge; I’ve got lots of leftovers in the freeze to enjoy throughout the winter. The one thing I learned was to try a variety of different soups rather than sticking with my traditional chicken noodle and chili and to venture outside my comfort zone.
This challenge came as I was recovering from my first fling with heart trouble–AFib. It started days after I was released from being hospitalized. I wanted food I could control, that wouldn’t keep me up until midnight preparing, that wouldn’t be inflammatory, and that I could share, since I didn’t want to do my normal cooking for me and then the rest of my food hounds. Simple Green Angels (that’s how I’m seeing you), you wrote this challenge for me. All these soups turned out to be winners, for keeping on my “regulars” list. I admit that I didn’t keep to the order of the group. I started with the carrot ginger–“creamy”!. Then I went to the detox–it gave me a good bang for minimum pre-chop. The variety in all these soups is one of my favorite things. The good news all around is that this food is helping to keep me in safe ranges for my medical parameters, and we have all been loving it. I added rotisserie chicken and other pre-chopped veg, like butternut squash, liberally when wanted by my other eaters. Mine, I kept as on my printout. Way easy. These aren’t the first of your soups I’ve craved–my first was your broccoli–makes me hungry thinking of it. I know you like to help make us feel healthy. I am more mobile and have lost six pounds–I’m crediting this challenge, because the recipe simplicity has helped leave time for moving my moves (I’m doing aqua PT.) My gratitude is yours: I dedicate my regular heartbeat to you.
I really liked the soup challenge. Although the challenge, for me, was more about getting my comments in. I spent hours and awhile I made every soup, I was only able to comment on a few. I thought I had also posted on all but 3 (Because it kept erroring out), but when i went back to look, I couldnt find my entry. I became more than frustrated. I know that in today’s COVID world, the Internet is stretching its limits with bandwidth but it just seemed to be very difficult. That being said, I am very disheartened that one of my goals was to learn your site Simplegreensmoothies.com, but also to be able to have the chance to win the vitamix. I recently have had some major health issues (Recent = 13 months) and I have really been struggling. I have looked at Plant Based diets for a very long time and your site is really amazing and I really enjoyed it. Not being able to comment on some of the recipes I guess made me ineligible to be in the drawing and that is very disheartening. Personally, I would strongly recommend that rather than rate the recipes or on a blog, just make one central area to comment on each of the daily entries. It would be so much easier for everyone who wants to participate.. My favorite soups were black bean and the corn chowder. They are my favorites anyway, but these were different and quite awesome.
It was nice not to have to think about meal planning during the time I was doing this challenge. Having the shopping list and pre-planned set of soups to work from made it easy. My favorite soup was the Thai coconut soup, which is really surprising since I really do not like coconut! It was just different from most other soups I’ve made and I liked the change.
Idk So many good soups! And I’m not I’m really a soup person! Think I really loved the corn chowder, red pepper and tomato best. Which is unlike me because I’m mostly a chunky soup person.
Love how many rawkstars are learning new things about their tastes with this challenge. 🙂
This was an amaging plant based soup challenge. I have wven shared this experience with others who are on the same pathway. I have gained mixing some amazong flavors and even creativity mxing some leftovers with each other. One day at a time with a lifestyle change makes all the difference . So the most like soup for me was the black bean. The creaminess of this and the preparation were both perfect .
Thank you and I look forward to continuing the journey!
This was an amazing plant based soup challenge. I not only gained blending some amazing flavors to acquire a masterpiece but I even had a little creativity by combining a few leftovers which was a bigger soup challenge win. I have 3 soups that I missed attempting to keep up on the daily challenge. But I have shared this great event with others who are on the same path as I. Beyond greatfull for this opportunity as I continue to transition within this lifestyle change.
The Tai Coconut was my fave. It was a new flavor profile for me and absolutely delicious. Loved this challenge…showed me how easy eating healthier really is! Thank you!!!!
Carrot Ginger is in my top 3 soups!!!! YUM- definitely making this next week & again for Halloween (so vibrantly festive). I blended it in the blender and topped wit chives. THANK YOU so very much for this great challenge. I am going to up my soup game from now on! Brenda