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13 Vegetarian soup recipes to warm you up this winter

June 15, 2016 by Stacey 17 Comments

It’s always this time of year I turn to vegetarian soups even more than usual. I love a hot bowl of something savoury eaten on the couch with gay abandon. Add a wedge of sourdough and proper butter and I’m happier than a two-year-old at a live Peppa Pig show.

These are my go-tos year round but my extra favourites in winter. The Minestrone every couple of weeks and always a stash in the freezer, the broccoli cheese when flaccid broccoli takes over the fridge (let’s be honest that’s pretty regularly), and the Thai soup for one just about every day. Working on my wonton soup, I’m endlessly fiddling with that!

Vegetarian Soup Recipes

Vegetarian Soup: Red lentil veggie soup with roasted potato croutons - an easy winter warmer on theveggiemama.com

Red Lentil Veggie Soup with Roasted Potato Croutons

This is such a “chuck whatever you’ve got in the pot” kind of soup with the goodness of added lentils. Love the chunky feta croutons alongside the crispy-on-the-outside, soft-on-the-inside potato ones.

Recipe here.

Vegetarian Soup: Minted pea with goat cheese and watercress

Minted Pea Soup with Goat Cheese and Watercress

I don’t know what it is with me and cheese and soup, but there it is! You can leave out the watercress but I love it’s pepperiness and I have a small pot of it growing so it’s no big deal. Good also topped with rocket.

Recipe here.

Vegetarian soup: A fresh, light, simple minestrone with a huge flavour kick / theveggiemama.com

Simple Minestrone

Where would I be without this bad boy? It gets trotted out for every occasion and especially when I feel under the weather. I’d say the parmesan-style cheese rind is optional but if it’s up to me it’s not! I freeze all my hard cheese rinds and pop one in every time. It really does make such a difference to the flavour, especially if you’re just using water or veggie stock.

Recipe here.

Vegetarian soup: a cheddar-veggie version with a silky, cheesy bechamel sauce.

Cheddar Veggie Soup

YOU HAVE GOT TO MAKE THIS. Ok so it’s just a fridge cleanout veggie soup but with the addition of a cheesy bechamel. It’s the best way to kick your regular ole veg soup up a notch. I almost can’t make a normal veggie soup now.

Recipe here.

Vegetarian soup: Cabbage and Potato soup with a Jalapeno Lime Twist - I was super-surprised at the ingredients in this one, but it really works.

Potato and Cabbage Soup with a Jalapeno Lime Twist

I know, it sounds REALLY weird. But we tried it because we were drowning in potatoes and cabbages in our weekly organics boxes and I looked everywhere to find something unusual to do with it (I mean I love colcannon but even I have my limits). The soup part is sweet and spicy, and the sour cream-avocado-lime top makes it incredible. One of my favourites now.

Recipe here.

Vegetarian soup: This fresh and fragrant thai soup for one takes less than 10 minutes and is packed with flavour.

Vegetarian/Vegan Thai Coconut Soup for One

I usually have all of these elements on hand and it’s such a breeze to make. It’s actually better made in small batches, but you can definitely double or quadruple, whatever you need.

Recipe here.

Vegetarian Soup: a hoisin tofu situation with rice or noodles as you prefer.

Hoisin-Tofu Soup with Rice

I love this for when I need a good hit of chilli, dark broth, and rice… so all the time, haha! Sometimes I put silken tofu in too, and sometimes I do a combination soup of noodles and wontons. It’s pretty versatile.

Recipe here.

Vegetarian Soup: a gorgeous roasted pumpkin number, sure to become a staple at your place.

Roasted Pumpkin Soup

STANDARD in this house. Roasting the potato really bumps up the flavour, I love the caramelised sweetness of the edges alllllll blended in. The best.

Recipe here.

Vegetarian soup: This pumpkin and ginger soup with coconut and chili will become a fast favourite. Trust me!

Pumpkin and Ginger Soup with Coconut and Chili

For when you want a little hit of something different. Works really well as a thai-style situation – just don’t use butternut pumpkin!

Recipe here.

Vegetarian corn chowder | Veggie Mama

Creamy Corn Chowder

I’ve convinced many a non-veg with this one. If you only make one soup in this list, make it this corn chowder! I mean it.

Recipe here.

Vegetarian Soup: This spiced lentil soup is so easy to make - the list of ingredients seems long but it comes together pretty quickly. So delicious.

Spiced Lentil Soup

Ugly photo, but verrrrrry good soup. Really warming and spicy and full of flavour. Just remember to take out the cardamom pods!

Recipe here.

Vegetarian Soup: This cauliflower and Leek soup is begging for you to make it. So simple yet so flavoursome.

Cauliflower and Leek Soup

A creamy bowl of sweet, sweet deliciousness. I’ve also been known to chuck a huge wodge of blue cheese in here. I make this on the regular.

Recipe here.

Vegetarian Soup: A thick, flavourful broccoli cheese soup is a much-needed addition to your repertoire. It's the cheesy bechamel that does it!

Broccoli Cheese Soup

Such an American classic but I was a bit of a newcomer to it. It’s so simple, but the rich flavour belies its few ingredients. It’s the cheesy bechamel – it gets me every time. I’m going to make some this week, for real. I’ve got the best loaf of sourdough juuuuuust waiting.

Recipe here.

Soup Accompaniments

I know, what’s soup without a little something something on the side? I feel ya. Get stuck into:

  • Homemade Rye Bread
  • The Best Garlic Bread of All Time
  • Honey-Dukkah Breadsticks
  • Olive + Parmesan Foccacia
  • Crispy Baked Eggplant Chips
  • Brie and Cranberry Rolls
  • Baked Ravioli Bites
  • Fried Pickles
  • Cheese and Spinach Stuffed Potatoes
  • Oprah’s No-Knead Dinner Rolls

So go forth and soup! Don’t forget to side!

What’s your favourite soup? Something wintery and delicious. Feel free to leave a link!

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  1. kit@lifethroughthehaze says

    June 15, 2016 at 3:46 pm

    Yum! I love all things soup well except anything pea related that is! I will eat and try anything but I am not a fan of peas!
    Cannot wait to try cheddar veggie soup, cauliflower & leek, corn chowder and the thai soup! Yummy!

    Reply
    • Stacey says

      June 15, 2016 at 6:09 pm

      Haha I can’t convince you with the pea soup? it’s SO GOOD!

      Glad you like the others though, they are awesome. Let me know what you think when you make them!

      Reply
  2. Sarah @sarahdipity says

    June 15, 2016 at 8:10 pm

    Oooh I’ve been after some good soup recipes, thankyou for sharing!

    Reply
    • Stacey says

      June 15, 2016 at 8:44 pm

      You are most welcome, lovely!

      Reply
  3. Sammie @ The Annoyed Thyroid says

    June 15, 2016 at 8:27 pm

    It’s a big fat yes, please to any of these, but you can keep the one with tofu (only because it’s my food nemesis.) That cheesy veggie number looks positively soup-er!

    Reply
    • Stacey says

      June 15, 2016 at 8:41 pm

      Haha I’m surprised I eat it as much as I do (having said that it’s not super often) because I used to HATE IT.

      Reply
  4. Emily Toxward says

    June 16, 2016 at 9:23 am

    I can’t wait to make some of these once I’ve done my 21 day cleanse and 7 day refugee ration challenge – YUMMO!

    Reply
    • Stacey says

      June 20, 2016 at 8:02 pm

      Yeah how are you going with that?!

      Reply
      • Em @ Have A Laugh On Me says

        June 21, 2016 at 11:01 am

        So my cleanse was great and so tasty but on day 3 of ration challenge and am hating all the rice… not because it’s bland because it’s filling and hurting my tummy that has just had weeks of glorious veggies and fruit!

        Reply
  5. merilyn says

    June 16, 2016 at 9:40 am

    all good! soup fan here! … these all look great thanks Stacey!
    love m:)X

    Reply
    • Stacey says

      June 20, 2016 at 8:03 pm

      soup is AWESOME!

      Reply
  6. Johanna @ Green Gourmet Giraffe says

    June 16, 2016 at 10:01 am

    what a beautiful collection of soups – I probably make a cross between a minestrone and a lentil soup most – now I think I need one tonight. One of my other favourite soups is an Asian style corn and tempen soup and I love pumpkin too. And I am going to have to try your cheddar vegie soup – I have done this with cauliflower with dairy and vegan cheese sauces but now I need to try it with lots of veg.

    Reply
    • Stacey says

      June 20, 2016 at 8:16 pm

      The extra veg really makes it so interesting (and of course other health goodies!) – love the idea of lentils in a minestrone type thing 😀

      Reply
  7. Jo Wake says

    June 16, 2016 at 9:59 pm

    A lot of great soup recipes. Not soup time where I am in Canada at the moment although I have made asparagus soup as it’s in season.

    Reply
    • Stacey says

      June 20, 2016 at 8:16 pm

      Oh I’m so jealous, asparagus is one of my favourite veggies!

      Reply
  8. Missy D says

    June 22, 2016 at 9:00 pm

    Bookmarking this! It’s soup weather and this is making me inspired! 🙂

    Reply
  9. Linda says

    July 2, 2016 at 2:25 pm

    Thank you Stacey. Just what I needed some soup inspiration,

    Reply

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