Warming and Healthy Winter Soups

Warm up with these vegetable-filled, healthy winter soups.

As the holidays come to a close and winter begins, I find myself turning to soup. There’s nothing quite as satisfying as a piping hot bowl of soup on a cold winter day to warm and comfort you from the inside out, and after weeks of feasting we can all use a bit of a nutritional reset don’t you think?

Besides being cozy and comforting, soup has some pretty terrific things going for it: it’s simple to make, can be stashed away in the freezer for later, is filled to the brim with both vegetables and water, (keeping us full and hydrated), and is easy to re-heat (in fact most soups taste even better the next day).

Swapping in a big bowl of soup in place of your usual lunch or dinner is a simple and sane way to get back on track with healthy eating after the holidays (smoothies and salads are great but soup is so much nicer when it’s cold out).  So I’ve put together a selection of healthy soups to get you through the season and warm you on the even the coldest winter night and beyond.

Whether you’re in the mood for a stew or broth, something velvety or chunky, with or without noodles, there’s a soup here for you.

Restorative Detox Vegetable Broth

A restorative broth made with a plethora of vegetables to sooth, nourish and detoxify.

Quick Spicy Tomato Vegetable Soup

A quick and spicy tomato soup inspired by the flavors of Puttanesca sauce filled with vegetables.

Celery Root and Potato Soup with Sautéed Shiitakes

A velvety cold-weather soup made with celery root and potatoes, topped with sautéed shiitake mushrooms.

Thai Red Curry Lentil Carrot Soup 

A fast and comforting Thai inspired red lentil and carrot soup.

Clean Green Soup

A cleansing green soup to nourish and revitalize your body anytime of year.

Spicy Carrot Sweet Potato Soup

A quick-cooking, comforting and fiery carrot and sweet potato soup.

Thai-Style Coconut, Sweet Potato and Spinach Soup

A hearty soup with sweet potatoes and spinach in a creamy coconut broth with Thai spices. 

Spinach and Eggplant Noodle Miso Soup

A quick and easy miso soup that both soothes and invigorates, filled with eggplant noodles, baby spinach and shiitake mushrooms.

Italian Winter Greens Egg Drop Soup | Stracciatella

A brothy egg soup made with ribbons of kale to warm and sooth you during the winter months.

Ginger, Turmeric Spiced Carrot Soup

Carrots are simmered with warm spices like ginger, turmeric and cinnamon then blitzed into a silky puree.

French Vegetable Soup

A brothy French vegetable soup with large chunks of potatoes, leeks, carrots, and fennel.

Sylvie

Sylvie Shirazi is the recipe developer and food photographer behind Gourmande in the Kitchen. For the last 10 years she’s been making eating more healthfully easy and accessible with gluten-free, grain-free, paleo and vegan recipes that are free from processed ingredients.