If you want to start making great soups to warm your soul or need a new recipe to add to your usual rotation, here are some great, easy recipes.
As a bonus, all the real essentials to cooking gear to making great soup are included as well.
Sections
2
Best Recipes
Best Tools
Best Recipes
This soup is so easy and delicious. Really Helps if you use mini lasagna noodles.
Lasagna Soup Recipe
This soup is so good for colds and clearing out the airways. Plus it is packed with Bitamin C to help your body heal, while fighting a cold.
Curried Sweet Potato Soup
This soup warms the soul. It is incredibly creamy, full of veggies and so yummy.
Crockpot Chicken Gnocchi Soup Recipe
It is so easy to get tomato soup from a can now. We forget that it is very easy to make or to even just take a plain can of tomotoe soup up a notch.
A good grilled cheese to go along with tomatoe soup is a must!
My Best Grilled Cheese Sandwich
A Staples when you are sick or just want a bowl of comfort on a rainy day.
Truly Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup
Brocoli and cheddar soup is one of my favorites. Of course I use whatever cheese is in my fridge. The combinations are endless and fun to try.
Broccoli Cheddar Soup Recipe
A great topper for many soups, just adding a nice crunch to the dish.
How To Make Homemade Croutons
I have been sick off and on with all the multiple bugs my kids bring home from school at the beginning of the year. Making a homemade chicken noodle soup, having it in the freezer and adding the egg noodles later on is what keeps me going.
This Chicken Noodle Soup Is So Good, Our Coworkers Lined Up Asking For A Bowl
A spicy ramen can help clear the sinuses. Also just shake up the regular line up of fall vegetable soups.
This kind of soup was one of my grandmothers staples. My Mom makes it for me and my kids still. It is still such a comfort food with so many beautiful memories attached.
Beef and Barley Soup
Best Tools
To make good soup, you need a good set of pots that allow to make large batches that you can refrigerate or freeze for later. Many soup recipes are based on you using a 1 gallon stock pot.
Being able to strain soups before blending them. Or straining your stock before making a soup, requires a strainer that is usually metal and has smaller mesh than a pasta strainer.
Rice Strainer | Walmart Canada
Having a good crock pot that can handle a large batch helps to gave meals ready in advance.
Crock-Pot® Canada - The Original Slow Cooker
Having a good set of cooking utensils at tge ready to cook chicken, veggies a head of time and then scoop out your soup when it's ready is a must. This simple set from IKEA is a good start.
Cooking & Kitchen Utensils
I can't help myself, but I love cooking with wooden spoons. This set is really fun and has lots of different shaped utensils to try. Best thing is they can be used on all kinds of cook wear unlike metal.
Wooden Spoons
Hand held blenders are a game changer when making your own soups at home. They are the difference between a more dishes or less mess.
Immersion & Hand Blenders
If you are more comfortable with a regular blender, this version will help with cooking, rather than just the standard smoothie and shakes.
Soup Blender
Something I have always wanted to do is Hot Pot at a restaurant. Never thought you could do it from the comfort of your own home. Like fondue, this would be a cool thing to bring out when hosting a dinner party.
Soupify 2-IN-1 Electric Hot Pot & Grill
Really need to get some of these. I honestly use zip lock bags, but when doing double or triple batches something like this can really be beneficial.
Souper Cubes 250mL Silicone Freezer Tray
This is a really nice gift for someone with arthritis or a grandparent that cooks a lot. My kids got one for it and with arthritis in my present and future it definitely helps a lot in the kitchen
OXO Good Grips Jar Opener with Base Pad & Reviews | Wayfair
As a person who firmly like chopping up their own vegetables fresh and does not buy bottled garlic, this little gadget is a game changer. When you are making 2x, 3x or more batches or a very garlic heavy sauce this makes it go a lot faster.
ORBLUE Stainless Steel Garlic Press Set
Having a good food processor is something that is essential to making soups in both large and small batches. This model does small batches welland easily.
ZYLISS Easy Pull Manual Food Chopper Red
Medium grade food processor. This could get you through some 2x or 3x batches or soups or sauces.
Ninja Pro Plus Food Processor 850W 9-Cup Silver
The heavy duty model. This one is going to be on my Christmas wish list. You can make the sauce or soup and then the bread to go with your meal.