Soup

If you've always thought you needed hours to make a luxuriously silky puréed vegetable soup, well, this recipe is here to say you don't! 

This black bean soup is seasoned with a heavy hand. If you are salt- or spice-averse, decrease the amount of salt to 1½ tsp. and use 1 chipotle chile with 1 tsp. adobo sauce instead.

Molokhia, a braised chicken and greens dish popular in Lebanon and Egypt, inspired this riff on chicken soup.

This recipe takes all the right shortcuts and none of the wrong ones.

Split pea soup is a lot like your favorite pair of slippers—it might not look like much, but boy does it make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

The most flavorful, hearty, and warming meal you've ever made with (almost) exclusively pantry staples.

If you can’t find delicata squash in your neck of the woods, acorn or butternut will do the trick.

DIY kid food is the best food, if you ask us.

You know the soup and salad deal? Well, this is our take on combining the two into one dish.

Some of us still have nightmares about bad puréed black bean soups that were once a “thing.” Creamy puréed pinto beans, chiles, and lots of mix-ins set this soup on the right path.

Puréed soups are easy because they don’t require lots of knife work... but they can also be boring. Amping up the seasoning and topping with crunchy shaved vegetables and bright herbs makes it clear that this one's not baby food.

This warm, comforting soup is just the thing for a random Tuesday night, and it’s cold outside, and you don’t want to put too much effort into cooking.

This is a perfect recipe to make when you have bought too many tomatoes at the market and they are starting to show their age.

This soup is inspired by Ash Reshteh, a thick Iranian soup made with chickpeas, a boatload of herbs, and noodles, with one big exception: We omitted the noodles.

We like toasting the canned hominy to concentrate and develop its flavor, but if that’s one step too many, it will still be awesome!

If you like your soup extra spicy, add a bit more gochujang or even a bit of the kimchi juice for an additional kick.

A savory take on classic miso soup.

A modern take on your childhood sick-day soup.

Nutty, buckwheat-based soba noodles add some heft to the classic miso broth.

The best, easiest miso soup ever.