18 Easy Soups That Are Ready Within an Hour
Make the most of seasonal produce, pantry staples, and shortcuts for these low-lift, quick soup recipes.
We have warm, comforting, chilled, creamy, chunky, and silky soup recipes for every craving — hearty soups, fruit soups, vegetarian soups, Italian soups — and these are the easiest ones when you don't have the time or energy for a project. Keep tomato soup simple with canned whole tomatoes; puree silky zucchini soup without any cream; skip the spices with complex Mexican chorizo; or shred rotisserie chicken for avgolemono. From few ingredients to clever shortcuts and minimal mess, here are our standout easy soup recipes to enjoy within an hour.
Creamy Tomato Soup with Buttery Croutons
Cara Cormack
Seattle chef Tom Douglas' creamy tomato soup recipe comes together quickly and easily by using a few pantry staples, such as canned whole tomatoes, garlic, onion, and extra-virgin olive oil.
Silky Zucchini Soup
Julia Hartbeck
2002 F&W Best New Chef Grant Achatz makes this simple, creamy, sublimely silky zucchini soup without using any cream at all. To let the zucchini flavor truly shine, the ingredient list is not bogged down with heavy dairy or herbs, but gets its rich body from pureed vegetables.
Creamy Pumpkin Soup
Diana Chistruga
Silky smooth and delicately spiced, this pumpkin cream soup is one of those fantastic recipes that yields an amazingly delicious dish with very minimal effort. Produce-wise, all there is to prep is a small white onion and a single garlic clove. And while there are definitely dishes that command the use of a fresh pumpkin, this is not one of them. Just buy a can of pure pumpkin puree.
Broccoli and Potato Soup
Cara Cormack
Creamy with its pureed potato base and chunky with vibrant green broccoli florets laced throughout, this bright, savory soup is ready in half an hour.
White Bean and Ham Soup
Diana Chistruga
Former F&W Test Kitchen senior editor Grace Parisi's creamy, pureed white bean soup is studded with ham, garnished with paprika-dusted croutons, and ready in 30 minutes.
Pumpkin Soup with Thai Red Curry Paste and Lemongrass
This pureed pumpkin soup is made especially creamy with the addition of coconut milk, while the Thai red curry paste and garlic lend depth and heat. Lemongrass, ginger, and a squeeze of fresh lime juice brighten the flavors in each spoonful.
Mexican Street Taco Soup
Shortcut alert: Chorizo is your ticket to a fast-fix dinner thanks to its built-in abundance of spices. In this easy, customizable soup, it provides a backbone of flavor without requiring you to raid your spice cabinet.
Fire-Roasted Tomato Bisque
Julia Hartbeck
This creamy tomato bisque recipe uses a combination of store-bought shortcuts like chicken broth and canned tomatoes along with aromatic vegetables to create a deeply flavorful soup that's ready in just over half an hour.
Avgolemono Chicken Soup with Rice
Diana Chistruga
Because this soup avgolemono recipe calls for both cooked rice and chicken, it's especially quick to make. There are no vegetables to prep; you'll simply need to juice a couple of lemons, shred a rotisserie chicken, and chop half a cup of fresh dill.
Corn Chowder
This quick and easy recipe for corn chowder highlights the taste of sweet summer corn, but since the vegetable is available virtually all the time, you can (and should) make this chowder year-round.
Miso Chicken Ramen
F&W culinary director at large Justin Chapple's quick and easy ramen upgrades standard chicken noodle soup with white miso and runny eggs, saving time and energy with store-bought ramen noodles and shredded cooked chicken.
Red Kuri Squash Soup with Ancho Chile and Apple
1988 F&W Best New Chef Rick Bayless layers the unique, concentrated sweet flavor of kuri squash with apple, cinnamon, and raisiny ancho chile, blending in the squash seeds for nuttiness.
Red Kuri Squash Soup
Legendary chef Alice Waters also prefers the petite, brightly hued variety of winter squash. Roasting the fennel while the squash simmers makes this soup quick and easy to prepare. Use a handheld immersion blender to blend the soup in the same pot the squash cooked in for less mess.
Chilled Spring Pea Soup
Use sugar snaps and frozen baby peas to simplify 1988 F&W Best New Chef Daniel Boulud's deliciously light and clean-tasting soup.
Shorbet Ads (Egyptian Red Lentil Soup)
This fast and easy lentil soup that's popular in Egypt can be served with yogurt, lemon wedges, and warm pita.
Zucchini-and-Fennel Soup
Ceramicist Peter Ting's soothing, mellow soup gets a refreshing tang from a swirl of crème fraîche and can be served hot or cold.
Easy Chicken Ramen Soup
By using rotisserie chicken and quick-cooking ramen, this soup carries all the down-home comfort of chicken noodle with barely any effort.
Cucumber Gazpacho
Grapes and cucumbers form a delicately sweet and refreshing soup that's ready in 15 minutes. Add cooked shrimp for a light meal.
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