Soup and Stew Recipes & Ideas

It’s so customizable!

For me, the best part of Thanksgiving dinner are the leftovers. Day one is the day for turkey sandwiches and plates of reheated dinner. And this turkey noodle soup is the ideal next step for leftovers. It not only uses up the leftover turkey meat, but also any vegetables and herbs you may have left from the big day.  It’s the best way to use leftover turkey.

It’s the easiest phở ever.

Plus, it’s customizable.

It’s so delicious.

The broth is liquid gold.

I’ll never make lasagna another way.

And surprisingly easy to make at home.

Paprika is the star.

It’s so flavorful!

It’s the total package.

Better the next day is an understatement.

You’ll definitely want seconds!

When it comes to comforting soups, I can easily say I have a hands-down favorite: Italian wedding soup. My experience of it is neither particularly Italian, nor is it matrimonial, rather it was one of the first real meals my mother fed me when I was a baby. The legend is that I’d slurp it loudly, humming, and the broth would dribble down my neck, soaking the neck of my shirt.

It's the flexible soup of your dreams.

And yes, the beans belong here.

We’re in prime cold and flu season, and with it comes the need to keep plenty of cozy soups in your recipe arsenal. Sometimes a bowl or two is all you need to start feeling yourself again. These 20 easy soup recipes are comforting meals to make when you, your significant other, or your kids are sick and feeling under the weather.

Bonus: It’s so easy.

Bonus: There’s only 5 minutes of prep.

Better than the OG.

When you really think about it, the whole Thanksgiving meal is one giant twofer. Next-day Thanksgiving leftovers are just as important as the perfect day-of meal. The turkey, however, is even more generous. You roast your turkey on day one; have the leftover meat for turkey sandwiches, chilis, and cheesy turkey enchiladas in the days after; and now you get this glorious sunny stock from the bones and bits leftover even after the meat is gone.

Editor’s Note: If you’ve cooked this beloved recipe before, it might look a little different these days! We recently improved it to make it even easier to follow and more delicious.From here on out, creamy chicken soup from the slow cooker shall be known as change-your-life chicken soup. Try to imagine all the goodness of chicken soup — moist, tender chicken, bites of sweet carrot and peas — but wrapped in a creamy broth flecked with black pepper.

Plus, two ingredients not normally found in chili.

Pronounced poh-taazh, potage is a fancy term for a thick and comforting soup cooked in a pot. Typically, it also infers that the soup is made of vegetables and is puréed until smooth. Like many French dishes, it originates from peasants and farmers who were using the ingredients they had available — in this case, any mix of vegetables. Potage is often enriched at the end with some kind of dairy.

It's the no-cook dish of my dreams.

It's bursting with corn flavor.

It's my forever recipe.

The sauce is everything.

We've got the secret to fluffy and dense matzo balls.

Soaking the grains makes it extra creamy.

Yes, it’s really that good.

There are a lot of ways to cook up a hearty, comforting pot of beef stew, but if you ask me, absolutely nothing compares to Guinness beef stew. It also happens to be my favorite dinner to cook for St. Patrick’s Day. In this version, thick chunks of chuck roast are seared and then simmered low and slow in a Guinness-spiked sauce on the stovetop.

Almost every culture has a homey version of chicken soup to comfort the sick or the soul weary, or to stave off the chill of cold weather, but the Greeks might just have one of the best: the egg and lemon soup known as avgolemono. Here’s how to make this classic comforting soup at home. First of all, it’s gorgeous. The broth is vibrant yellow from the eggs and heavily scented with lemon fragrance. The broth is rich, but not heavy.

Spaghetti makes it perfect for a crowd.

All the pickle girls out there — this one’s for you.

The perfect weekend project.

Even better, it’s also simple to make.

Dashi is an incredibly simple broth, and it forms one of the culinary cornerstones of Japanese cooking. It’s made in about 10 minutes with just three ingredients: water, kombu (dried kelp), and bonito fish flakes. The resulting clear broth tastes like the essence of the sea. Dashi can be used to make a fantastic bowl of miso soup, to poach fish or vegetables, or to add savory umami flavor to any number of Japanese recipes. Here’s how to make dashi broth at home.

And there isn't even heavy cream.

It's the most comforting thing you'll cook this winter.

So simple, so satisfying.

Bon appétit!

The recipe has racked up almost 7 million views on Instagram.

You might adore Olive Garden for the unlimited salad and garlic breadsticks (our copycat recipe is seriously legit!) or the ultra-comforting creamy pastas, but for me, it’s all about the luxuriously creamy chicken gnocchi soup. Just thinking about it, I can smell the herb and black pepper-flecked broth and feel the warm, satisfying comfort it brings to my belly.

It’s ready in less than an hour.

So warm, so cozy.

Cozy and delicious!

And it makes your kitchen smell amazing.

All the cooking happens in the oven, so you barely need to stand in front of the stove.

A bread bowl is the ultimate Libra flex.

So much better than chicken noodle.

It’s shockingly easy.

This is a bowl of pure comfort.

There's nothing more comforting on a cold winter night.

Bonus: It's super easy.

The ultimate winter dinner.