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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 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
I absolutely love soups and this was the perfect challenge! My favorite soup was the carrot ginger soup and I ended up making it twice already and shared it with my whole family (who happened to be in town just in time!) and now this recipe has a couple more additional lovers! I love how easy it was to make and the fall, cozy feeling it gives me. Absolute favorite, thank you!
10 day challenge was very satisfying. I think the Thai Coconut was probably the best. Thanks for hosting 🙂
Taking the ten day soup challenge was just plain “fun”. I learned a lot about making modifications to recipes that work for me and my wife. We are not vegan, but it did not detour me from participating in the challenge. Seeing how others made modifications to the recipes was good as we all have diet restrictions, food allergies, intolerances, etc., and let’s face it – there are some foods we just do not like. So make the soup work for you and your family.
It is hard to pick one favorite as they were all good. But if it is one – the Ultimate Detox is the one. This soup had flavor, it had texture, and then it had the added benefit of detox. We not only got good nutrition, we also got an added benefit of putting anti-inflammatory foods into your body. We are gluten free so that made for a nice added relief, but with flavor and good taste. I can see this soup being a regular soup we make and do so in a large batch to freeze for later and have available as a quick meal.
This challenge opened me up to being more creative in how I approach food. For example, I had never used coconut cream. But I can now see using it more and in different ways. I always shied away from using a blender or immersion blender. No more! Cooking is about having fun, learning new tastes and what goes well with additional ingredients. This soup challenge checked all the boxes.
I really enjoyed this challenge! My favorite soups by far were the red lentil curry soup and the thai coconut soup. This challenge showed my that I can create tasty meals without meal. I’m happy to report I even lost 2 pounds! Thank you for awesome challenge.
I very much enjoyed this soup challenge! I do not enjoy cooking, but I enjoyed this because there was zero food waste, the recipes were simple, all recipes were vegan, and by eliminating dairy I feel better than I have in a long time. I have been pescatarian for close to 15 years and eliminated seafood from my diet within the past five years. I have noticed inflammation and bloating over the past two years and it looks like it is cheese and ice cream that are the culprits. (I love cheese and ice cream )
My husband is an omnivore who eats meat once or twice a week and he also enjoyed the soups.
My favorites that I will cheerfully make again were the red lentil curry, black bean, and tomato.
My husband’s favorites were the vegan chicken noodle (he even liked tofu!), tomato, and spicy roasted red pepper.
Our least favorites were the minestrone and Thai coconut.
I look forward to additional challenges and additional easy whole food recipes.
Black bean soup was my favorite! Looking forward to rotaing these recipes through the cooler months. I’ve expanded on my chopping veggie skills and being intentional in creating healthy meals.
I really enjoyed this challenge! This was a good way for me to learn a lot about making soup in a short, focused period of time and try making (and eating) a bunch of different recipes. It is difficult to choose my favorite since I like them all well enough to make them again! I think the tomato, carrot ginger, and red lentil were my top three. I like tomato soup anyway, but had never made it before – and this was one of the best tomato soup recipes I’ve eaten, so I’m happy to have this in my recipe box now! Thank you so much for hosting this challenge and creating this community.
I loved trying all the new soups and having flavors I might normally put together. My favorite soup in the carrot ginger. So easy and so tasty! But, the tomato soup is a close second….we make it all the time in our house.