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Soup doesn’t just keep us warm; it also packs nutrients and flavor. Check out these incredibly delicious healthy soup recipes for fall.
I’ve got a rawkstar lineup of fall soup recipes to share with you today. These ten incredible healthy soup recipes are all part of my free 10-Day Soup Challenge. They are made with whole food, plant-based ingredients, full of flavor and just waiting 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 coming.
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. So let’s dive right in!
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Healthy Soup Recipes
I can’t wait to dive into these soup recipes with you! I’ve got a little bit of everything since Autumn is so full of fresh vegetables. 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.
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 |
Versatile Soup Toppings
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.
What are your go-to soup toppings? Leave a comment and let me know!
Healthy Soup Recipes FAQs
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.
It can be! Look for a soup with whole food, plant-based ingredients. Use fresh, seasonal ingredients for the most nutrient-dense soup. Look for recipes with protein and healthy fat so they can fill you up and keep you full longer.
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.
Soup-Making Kitchen Equipment
If you’re ready to start whipping up some soup, make sure you have these items in your kitchen:
- A stock pot, crock pot, instant pot or ceramic pot. Something that can hold six quarts.
- A blender or immersion blender. Make sure your blender is rated for hot liquids.
- A good knife and cutting board for chopping ingredients.
That’s it! Soup is great because you don’t need a bunch of fancy equipment to make it, and many soups can even swap ingredients you have on hand and still taste delicious. Ready, set, soup!
I loved this challenge, even though I ended up taking a break at day eight. It is hard to pick a favorite soup, there were several I did not expect to enjoy that surprised me, but I think the Vegan Tomato and the Spicy Roasted Red Pepper are right at the top. Of course I really enjoyed the Detox and the Paprika Corn Chowder too! The Carrot Ginger has been high on my go to list since the cleanse last fall. One of the things I enjoyed most about the cleanse were comments from other participants and seeing their presentations, and that is one of the things I got from the challenge…a simple, healthy soup can make an elegant meal. I shared the soups with my trainer and she has loved them too. I asked her what her favorite one was and the reply was “all of them!”
The 10 Day soup challenge was fun and educational. I admit, I often look to a can or jar when I want soup. This challenge proved to me that it doesn’t take that long to make a healthy, satisfying soup from scratch. It’s hard to pick a favorite from among these soups, but I’ll have to choose the Vegan Tomato Soup since tomato has always been my favorite soup. I’m sure I’ll make several of these throughout the winter.
My favourite recipe from the 10 day challenge was the classic minestrone soup. It is very delicious and I like the fact that I can use whatever I have on hand. Using the same recipe I get many variations!. One of the results I got from the 10 day challenge was some stress relief with the warm, comforting nourishment that comes with soup. Thanks for this event. I appreciate what you are doing.
Wendy Capreol
I loved almost all of these soups. I don’t know why, but I always thought it would be difficult to make soup but these recipes show it’s actually quite easy. And once you get the hang of that bases of soup, you can build off of that. My favorites on here are the tomato, the carrot ginger and the detox soup. The cashew cream is surprisingly delicious. I even took some extra, mixed in some vanilla and a tbsp of sugar and it made a delicious dip for apple slices. Off to make more soup, that corn chowder is calling my name!
The 10 Day Soup Challenge was great! It’s hard to choose a favorite soup as I loved all of them and so did my family. My husband especially liked the black bean soup leftover. It thickened and he likes thick creamy soup. My adult step-son liked the ones with kale the best. I think maybe the detox soup was my favorite. I often made too much so I froze the leftovers and will have ready meals in the future!
I did get a little confused about where to rate the soups. Especially the Vegan Chicken Noodle soup. There was no place I could find to leave a comment. Next time (and I hope there is one!) I will try to remember to take pictures. And I also hope there are more blender soups. What a great time saver!
Thank you to all who worked hard to put this together! I have really benefitted from it and so has my family.
Loved the black bean soup….made with a Mexican flavor and heavy hand with taco spice. Not on the list, but also had to make classic potato and leek soup, some of it blended, with addition of truffle oil. Smooth yet chunky, with earthy truffles, yum! Focusing on soups also helped shed a few pounds.
I love everything that comes from Simple Green Smoothies and this Soup Challenge didn’t disappoint! While all of the recipes are my favorite, the Thai Coconut is at the top of my list! These recipes and all of the SGS recipes inspire me to keep eating raw and make up my own! I’ve followed SGS for years but about 3 months ago did the summer thrive and it’s truly changed my life. Thank you for making me feel better inside and out.
This 10 day soup challenge was a ton of fun! The timing of the challenge was perfect (who doesn’t love soup in the fall?). The soups were easy to make & there was such a variety. I will keep most in a rotation this fall & winter. The minestrone soup was my favorite. I would buy the canned version all the time but no need now! It was easy to make and so fresh. I feel lighter, cleaner and have a stocked freezer for the next couple weeks!
My favorite recipe: The vegan tomato soup was a perfect recipe for me – I love tomato soup but don’t want the dairy often found in recipes. Loved that this recipe included other veggies too. One result: Realizing that soup is an easy, satisfying and simple meal!
I loved this challenge. Living alone, and working a full time job, making a pot of soup on a Saturday or Sunday and looking forward to a healthy, hearty meal when I come home from work, knowing that it is already prepared, is the most wonderful feeling. My favorite was the carrott/ginger as I am a fan of both of these ingredients.
I look forward to making more soups as the cold weather approaches!!!
I absolutely loved the 10 day soup challenge! My favorite is the Carrot Ginger. This recipe screams “Fall”. I loved how creamy it was and the carrots and ginger are great paired together. This challenge has taught me that a healthy recipe doesn’t have to be complicated or take forever to fix or contain meat or dairy to be good. Learning to make cashew cream was a bonus too. I am saving these recipes as I will definitely be making them all again.
I enjoyed the soup challenge but thought it was too long. I think a week would be better. Also it wasn’t quite cold enough outside to be inspired for soup every day. Maybe in January or February would be better. The soups though were delicious and several will be added to my fall, winter rotation. My favs were the Coconut (which I made already with the summer cleanse), and the vegan tomato. I made half of each recipe and we’re still enjoying leftovers. Thanks for the challenge, support and healthy fun!
I have loved this challenge. I and my children are soup lovers. These were easy and quick to prepare. I really enjoyed everyone’s spin on the recipes to make it tasty for themselves. Because of this, it is really hard to select one that is the best. They all, with adjustments, were/could be delicious. Since I do very few blended soups, I really enjoyed the Spicy Red Pepper and Black Bean Soup (looking forward to the Ginger Carrot soup this Evening.) They were easy to make and delicious. My daughter is lactose intolerant so the Cashew Cream was something new for me to add to her diet. And all the soups could be made dairy free. Yay.
The best part of this challenge was getting tips, alternatives, ideas and quips from the other participants. Thank you all. Putting more veggies in my children’s and husband’s meals is a big healthy plus for me. Mahalo from Hawaii.
I really enjoyed the challenge — it was the first time that I had done anything like it. My husband’s favorite soup with the Vegan Tomato Soup. My favorite was the Thai Coconut Soup. I love Thai food and it never dawned on me that I could make a soup as good as the one I get at restaurants. I prepped most of the ingredients for the soups at one time. I plan to keep doing that now that the challenge is over. It really saves day-of work. Thanks for laying everything out and making it easy for us — including the shopping list. I’ll be ready for when you put together another challenge.
My favorites were the Black bean soup and the Detox soup, but I did like them all. Best thing I learned was you can use all natural ingredients, plus things from my garden.
I loved the Black Bean Soup and the Detox soup, they all were good but those 2 were my favorite