This vegetarian French onion-style cabbage soup gets its deep, almost meaty broth from slowly caramelized onions, mushrooms, and a spoonful of tamari. Peasant cooking at its best: cabbage, potatoes, and patience. There's nothing quite like a steaming bowl of soup to...

This vibrant miso soup with tofu and spinach comes together in twenty minutes and tastes far more restorative than anything from a packet. Cubes of tofu, wilted spinach, and scallions in a clear, savory broth — it is the bowl I want when I am feeling run down. Craving...

This hearty lentil and spinach soup is my cold-weather default — brown lentils, carrots, and plum tomatoes in a deep vegetable broth, finished with a mountain of spinach that wilts in at the end. It feeds a crowd and freezes beautifully. There's nothing quite like a...

Craving a soup that's both comforting and incredibly nourishing? Look no further! We're putting a vibrant, plant-powered spin on Caldo Verde, the beloved Portuguese classic. Traditionally made with sausage, our meatless version swaps in hearty kidney beans and smoky...

Chilled plum soup is the dessert-soup surprise of summer — ripe plums cooked briefly with red wine and warm spices, then chilled and finished with cream. Sweet, faintly tart, and jewel-colored, it is the course nobody expects. Imagine a warm summer day, a gentle...

Classic chilled gazpacho is the answer to every heat wave — ripe tomatoes, cucumber, and green pepper blended with vinegar and olive oil into a cool spoonable soup. No cooking at all, just a couple of hours in the refrigerator and the best tomatoes you can find. The...

This hearty vegetable stew with corn dumplings is Sunday food — a tomato-based stew that simmers while you stir together tender corn dumplings to steam on top. Everything lands in one pot, and the whole house smells like it. Some recipes are more than just food;...

This golden red lentil and potato soup is weeknight dal energy in soup form — red lentils and potatoes simmered with turmeric, cumin, and coriander until everything collapses into a golden puree. One pot, about an hour, and it reheats even better than it starts....

This silky cream of fennel soup turns three pounds of fennel into something gently sweet and anise-scented, rounded out with potato and a soft finish of milk and sour cream. It tastes like a restaurant first course and takes under an hour. If you think you know...

This chilled Turkish cucumber and yogurt soup — cacik — is summer in a bowl: cooling cucumber, garlicky yogurt, dill, and a scatter of walnuts. Fifteen minutes of work, an hour in the refrigerator, and dinner is cold and ready. When the summer sun is blazing and the...