The Best Fall and Winter Soups to Make This Season

There is something about the shift into autumn that makes me want to spend a Sunday afternoon with something bubbling on the stove. It is soup season and we are here for it! The smell alone — onions and garlic softening in olive oil, herbs warming through, a slow-building broth — is inviting and cozy. These are the soups I keep coming back to once the weather turns and are fan favorite soups: deeply flavoured, genuinely warming, and the kind of thing that gets better the next day.

I have pulled together everything from quick weeknight bowls to the slow-cooked classics. Whether you are feeding a crowd, meal prepping for the week, or just need something comforting on a cold evening, there is a soup recipe here for you.

Satisfying Mediterranean Soups

These are the soups rooted in the Mediterranean tradition of making something extraordinary from simple ingredients — good olive oil, legumes, greens, and a little time. Every one of these improves the next day, and every one of them will make your kitchen smell incredible while it cooks. I love to make these for company - they are perfect on a chilly day with my Dutch Oven No Knead Bread - totally nourishing but simple and delicious!

Hearty Ribollita Soup: A classic Tuscan soup loaded with veggies. Kale, cabbage, cannellini beans, plus more vegetables in a flavoured broth.

Classic Minestrone Soup: The Italian soup everyone should have in their repertoire. Packed with seasonal vegetables, white beans, and pasta in a rich tomato broth.

Fall Minestrone: A seasonal twist on the classic, built around the best of autumn’s kitchen garden.

Easy Quick Chicken Minestrone: All the comfort of a classic minestrone with tender chicken added for extra substance. A complete meal in a bowl that comes together quickly enough for a weeknight.

Easy Zuppa Toscana: Spicy Italian sausage, tender potatoes, and kale in a light creamy broth. A restaurant favourite made at home.

Creamy White Bean Soup (Italian Style): Cannellini beans (some pureed and some left whole) simmer with veggies in an herby broth with kale and finished with loads of Parmesan cheese and drizzled with a simple lemon parsley olive oil sauce.

Greek Stuffed Pepper Soup: All the flavours of Greek stuffed peppers — seasoned ground beef, rice, tomato, and warm spices all in an easy, hearty soup.

Hearty Stick-To-Your-Bones Soups

These are the soups that mean business. Bold, filling, and built for the nights when you need something that actually sticks. Make a big pot — these are all even better the next day.

Chicken Tortilla Soup: A deeply flavoured, smoky chicken soup topped with crispy homemade tortilla strips and a fresh salsa.

Ground Beef and Cabbage Soup with White Beans: Ground beef, white beans, and tender cabbage in a rich tomato broth. It takes care of all your protein and fibre needs in a delicious way!

Cajun Style Chicken Sausage White Bean Soup: Smoky chicken sausage, creamy white beans, and bold Cajun seasoning in a broth with real depth and a gentle heat.

Easy Taco Soup: All your favourite taco flavours in one pot. Seasoned ground beef, black beans, corn, and tomato with all the toppings you love. Ready in 30 minutes and the kind of thing the whole table asks for again the following week.

Classic Black Bean Soup: Black beans with cumin and smoked paprika, finished with a squeeze of lime and a dollop of sour cream. Perfect as a soup or stew over rice!

Split Pea Soup and Ham Bone: One of the great winter soups. A ham bone simmered with split peas into a thick, smoky, and flavourful soup. The soup to make the day after a roast ham and reason enough to save the bone.

Chicken Sausage Green Chile Lentil Soup: A flavourful, lightly spiced soup with chicken sausage, green chiles, and lentils. A nice change of flavours in lentil soup!

Comforting Rich & Creamy Soups

Creamy, rich, and deeply satisfying soups with body. Not blended, just beautifully creamy comforting soup, with plenty of flavours going on in every spoonful.

Chicken Gnocchi Soup: Pillowy gnocchi and tender chicken in a rich, herbed cream broth with spinach and carrots.

Broccoli Cheddar Soup: Thick, cheesy, and exactly what it promises to be. Sharp cheddar, tender broccoli, and a velvety broth that is comfort food maxing.

Lasagna Soup: Everything you love about lasagna — Italian sausage, rich tomato sauce, ricotta, and pasta — in a big warming bowl. All the flavour, a fraction of the effort, and ready in under an hour.

Creamy Sausage Tortellini Soup: Cheese tortellini and Italian sausage in a creamy broth with kale or spinach. A fast, satisfying weeknight soup.

Creamy Tuscan Tortellini Soup: The more indulgent, Tuscan-inspired version with tomatoes, sausage, white beans, and fresh cheese tortellini in a richly creamy broth.

Smoky Jalapeño Cheddar Potato Soup: Loaded with sharp cheddar, smoky bacon, and just enough mild heat from the jalapeño. A seriously indulgent potato soup.

Butternut Squash, Sausage and Tortellini Soup: Everything good about autumn in one pot. Sweet butternut squash, savoury sausage, and tortellini in a lightly creamy broth with woody herbs.

Creamy Ham Bone Soup with White Beans: Rich, smoky ham broth with creamy white beans.

Creamy White Chicken Chili: This creamy chili uses mild peppers, sweet corn, mild green chilies, white beans, cream cheese and chicken for a quick and comforting chili soup.

Velvety Cream Of… Soups

Silky, blended, creamy texture and elegant. These are the soups that feel like a little bit of luxury on a cold evening. Wonderful as a starter for a dinner party or a quiet bowl on a weeknight. A drizzle of good olive oil and some crusty bread on the side is all they need.

Squash & Root Vegetable

Creamy Chestnut Soup: One of my favourite autumn recipes and one of the most beautiful soups on this blog IMHO. Chestnuts make the most naturally sweet, luxurious base. Elegantly simple and far more impressive than the effort involved. This is a dinner party soup.

Potato Leek Soup: The classic, done properly. Silky leeks and buttery potatoes blended into something smooth and deeply comforting. Sometimes the classic recipes are classic for a reason.

Classic Butternut Soup with Spiced Whipped Cream: A silky, golden butternut squash soup finished with a spiced whipped cream that melts into the bowl. Simple to make, stunning to serve.

Thai Spiced Roasted Butternut Squash Soup: The same silky squash base with a completely different character, lemongrass, ginger, Thai curry paste, and coconut milk.

Sweet Potato Soup (Caribbean Style): Warmly spiced and beautifully vibrant with loads of fresh herbs, and naturally slightly sweet thanks to the sweet potatoes and butternut squash or pumpkin.

Creamy Cauliflower Soup: Velvety smooth and surprisingly rich aromatics sautéed in bacon fat creating a great base for the broth and what the cauliflower simmers in until it’s tender then blended and topped with fresh herbs and crispy bacon!

Creamy Roasted Golden Beet and Apple Soup: One of the most unexpected and most beautiful soups on this blog. Earthy golden beets and sweet apple roasted together and blended into a silky soup.

Greek Style Broccoli Soup: A bright, creamy broccoli soup with a Greek-inspired twist. Clean, nourishing, and far more flavourful than a standard broccoli soup.

Creamy Mushroom Soup: The most-visited soup on the blog and nothing like the tinned version. Deeply earthy, properly creamy, and made entirely from scratch.

Easy Tomato Soup (from Canned Tomatoes): A reliably delicious tomato soup made entirely from pantry staples. No fresh tomatoes required, no fuss, just a deeply flavoured, smooth bowl of tomato soup that you can have on the table in under 30 minutes any night of the week.

Veggie Forward Soups

Hearty, flavourful, and completely plant-based, these soups prove that meatless never means missing out. From Greek classics to a fragrant Thai coconut broth, every one of these is substantial enough to be a full meal and as the title suggests, loaded with veggies.

Lemony Lentil Soup: One of the most searched soups on the blog and deservedly so. Lentils with lemon, cumin, and warm spices. Bright, warming, and delicious!

Tom Kha Soup: This Thai soup is the vegan version made with coconut broth with lemongrass, galangal, and lime and loaded with veggies!

Spiced Lentil Soup: This very nourishing Moroccan style lentil soup is packed with plant protein and fibre, thanks to the lentils and all the warm anti-inflammatory spices like turmeric, ginger, and paprika.

Simple Vegetable Soup: The most flexible recipe on this list, a master formula for vegetable soup that works with whatever you have.

Creamy Vegan White Bean Chili: This hearty warming vegan white bean chili recipe is so full of flavour even though it’s made with only ten ingredients (excluding spices that is)! This is one of the most-visited soups on the entire site.

Vegetarian Chipotle Chili: Smoky, warming, and completely satisfying without any meat.

Easy Greek Lentil Soup: The traditional Greek version. Veggie loaded and seasoned simply with olive oil, bay, thyme, oregano and a little red wine vinegar stirred through at the end.

Greek White Bean Soup (Fasolada): Greece’s national soup, and one of the most underrated recipes on this blog. Cannellini beans cooked with tomato, carrot, celery, and a generous pour of olive oil. Humble ingredients, remarkable result.

Good For the Soul Soups

Some soups are more than just dinner. These are the ones I reach for when someone needs looking after, when the week has been long, or when only something truly comforting will do. Bright with lemon, rich with broth, and made with the kind of care that comes through in every bowl.

Chinese Noodle Soup: A fragrant, clear broth with tender chicken, veggies and noodles

Chicken Tortellini Soup: Cheese-filled tortellini and tender chicken in a simple, savoury broth with vegetables. The kind of soup that feels like a hug.

Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup: Bright, lemony, and deeply comforting. Chicken and orzo in a light broth. It is also so simple and quick to make!

Creamy Chicken and Wild Rice Soup: Warm, hearty and comforting. Made with chicken or leftover turkey and tender vegetables cooked in a creamy and flavourful broth, mixed with nutty wild rice.

Lemony Spinach Tortellini Soup (Avgolemono): Avgolemono’s egg-and-lemon technique applied to a chicken tortellini soup with fresh spinach. Silky, bright, and delicious!

Simple Classic Avgolemono Soup: The most traditional version using a whole chicken, rice, egg, and lemon.

Youvarlakia Avgolemono — Lemony Greek Meatball Soup: Tender herbed meatballs simmered in that same silky egg-and-lemon broth. A full meal in a bowl.

Quick and Easy Green Chicken Chili: This soup uses mild peppers, mild salsa, sweet corn, mild green chilies, white beans and rotisserie chicken for a quick, pantry chili soup.

Quick Greek Lemon Chicken Soup (Avgolemono): The soup I make more than any other. Avgolemono, egg and lemon stirred into a rich chicken broth, is one of the great comfort foods, and this quick version comes together in no time.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best soup to make ahead for winter?

Almost any soup on this list improves overnight, but the ones that are truly best made ahead are the Ribollita, Split Pea and Ham Bone, and the Classic Black Bean Soup. The flavours deepen significantly after a night in the fridge, and they all reheat beautifully on the stove top. Make a big pot on Sunday and you are set for the week.

Which soups freeze well?

Most broth-based and bean soups freeze beautifully. The Split Pea and Ham Bone, Black Bean Soup, Lentil, Fasolada, and any of the minestrones are all excellent freezer candidates. Soups with cream, pasta, or tortellini are better eaten fresh as the texture changes once frozen. For those, refrigerate and eat within three to four days. Be sure to check the notes in each recipe for details about storage and freezing.

What is avgolemono soup?

Avgolemono is a classic Greek egg and lemon soup. Eggs and lemon juice are whisked together and slowly stirred into a warm chicken broth, creating a silky, naturally thickened soup without any cream or flour. It is one of the most comforting and distinctive soups in Greek cooking.

Whatever the season asks of you this autumn and winter, I hope one of these ends up on your table. If you make something from this list, I would love to know which one. Leave a comment on the recipe or find me over on Instagram.