101 Soups For All Seasons

Fall is in full swing and everyone has soup on the brain. Whether you're looking for a chicken soup to help stop the cold you're afraid you're coming down with or a pumpkin soup to serve at Thanksgiving, it's time to break out your favorite Dutch oven or soup pot and get cooking.

Click here for the 101 Soups for All Seasons slideshow.

Soup: it's what you reach for during the coldest days of winter to warm up from the inside out, and where you put excess fresh tomatoes during the summer. While sometimes it's easier to open up a can and heat it up, there's nothing better than the scent of aromatics like onions, celery, and carrots stewing away with whatever else you have on hand. And honestly, you don't need much time or many ingredients.

At its simplest, soup is water boiled with stuff. The stuff can be anything, from vegetable scraps to high-quality meat, and it flavors the water enough to make it taste good.

Because it's so simple, soup is universal to every culture and almost every time period. The word "broth" first appeared around the year 1000.

Soup is one of the easiest things to perfect in the kitchen, especially when you use store-bought stock (though stock is also super easy to make). Click here to see a few basic rules for making all different types of stocks. Almost every hot soup starts out with sautéed aromatics like onions, garlic, carrots, and celery. After that it's up to you to decide what to add. Season your soup as it cooks and continually taste to check on the flavor.

It's hard to think about when you're wearing sweaters every day, but chilled soups are even easier to make than the hot varieties. Gazpacho — a Spanish cold blended soup of tomatoes, a bit of old bread, and some sherry vinegar — is a summertime staple, but there are many other chilled soups to cool you down throughout the summer.

There's a soup for every season in these 101 recipes, so find the soup that fits your mood and enjoy!

 

This story was originally published on October 14, 2014.

SPRING
1. Spring Soup with Bread Dumplings
2. Chilled Avocado Soup with Seared Chipotle Shrimp
3. Asparagus Soup
4. Pea and Mint Soup
5. Chilled Butternut Coconut Soup
6. Cauliflower-Cashew Soup with Pomegranate Seeds
7. Naeng-Myeon Ice-Cold Noodles

SUMMER
8. Chilled Avocado and Cucumber Soup
9. Watermelon Soup with Fresh Lobster
10. Chilled Tomato and Red Pepper Soup
11. Dairy Free Creamy Avocado Soup
12. Sweet Corn Soup with Peaches
13. Cucumber Soup, Basil, Buttermilk
14. Sunshine Soup with Heirloom Tomatoes, Mixed Peppers and Basil

FALL
15. Simple Celeriac (Celery Root), Potato, Apple and Parsnip Soup
16. Smoked Cauliflower Soup
17. Parsnip Soup
18. Turkey Soup with Dumplings
19. Mushroom and Chestnut Soup
20. Magical Chicken Ginseng Soup
21. Double Cream of Celery Soup

WINTER
22. Turkey and Root Vegetable Soup with Sage-Scented Matzo Balls
23. Butternut-Pear Soup
24. Beef Barley Soup
25. Pasta and Meatball Soup
26. Split Pea Soup
27. Winter Pumpkin Soup with Parmesan Croutons & Bacon Chips
28. Cozy Winter Soup with Fennel Sausage, Leeks, White Beans, and Rapini

CHICKEN SOUP
29. Lemon Chicken Soup with Dumplings
30. Slow Cooker Lemon Chicken and Orzo Soup
31. Asian Chicken Soup with Pea Soup
32. Slow Cooker Chicken Pot Pie Soup
33. Gluten Free Chicken Noodle Soup
34. Greek Avgolemono Soup
35. Simple Chicken Soup and Balaclava Deli's Matzo Balls
36. Chicken and Quinoa Soup

TOMATO SOUP
37. Tomato Soup
38. Tomato Mint Soup
39. Roasted Tomato Soup
40. Early Girl Tomato Soup
41. The Ritz Tomato Soup
42. Tomato and Bread Soup (Pappa al Pomodoro)
43. Asellina Roasted Tomato Soup

POTATO SOUP
44. Potato Soup
45. Hearty Potato, Cheddar, and Bacon Soup
46. Mashed Potato Soup
47. Cheesy Potato Slow Cooker Soup
48. Curried Sweet Potato Apple Soup
49. Sweet Potato Soup with Lime Leaves, Beech Mushrooms, Basil, and Peanuts
50. Curried Honey Sweet Potato Soup

ONION SOUP
51. French Onion Soup
52. Vegetarian French Onion Soup
53. Organic Onion and Ale Soup
54. Easy French Onion Soup
55. Onion Soup with Bacon, Winter Herbs and Gruyere
56. Creamy White Turnip Soup with Spring Onions and Roasted Garlic
57. Creamy Onion, Leek, and Shallot Bisque

BEAN SOUP
58. Vegetable Bean Soup
59. Slow Cooker Minestrone
60. Mom's Lentil Soup
61. Simple Black Bean Soup
62. Tuscan Bean Soup
63. Pasta e Fagioli
64. Shrimp and Chickpea Soup

BISQUE/CHOWDER
65. Crab Bisque
66. The Party Vegan's Chestnut Bisque Recipe
67. Salmon Chowder
68. Corn Chowder with Bacon and Cheddar
69. Norman Van Aken's Bahamian Fish Chowder
70. Clam Chowder
71. Pumpkin Chowder
72. Maine Lobster Bisque with Toasted Pumpkin Seeds

INTERNATIONAL
73. Hot and Sour Soup
74. Tortilla Soup
75. "Gypsy" Celebration Soup
76. Miso Soup
77. Beef Noodle Soup
78. Roman Egg Drop Soup
79. Bali Garden Soup
80. Thai Sweet and Sour Soup with Lobster Mushrooms, Lemongrass, and Shrimp

VEGETABLE
81. Roasted Curry Cauliflower Soup
82. Panera Bread Broccoli Cheddar Soup
83. Simple Swiss Chard Soup
84. Curried Lentil Soup
85. Mediterranean Kale Soup
86. Soft Tofu and Vegetable Soup
87. Honey Carrot Soup

FRUIT SOUP
88. Beach Body Fruit Soup
89. Chilled Pineapple Gazpacho
90. Watermelon Tomato Gazpacho
91. Fresh Fruit Soup
92. Two Melon Soup
93. Plum Soup with Cinnamon and Cloves
94. Pear Soup with Ginger and Buttery Leeks

STOCK
95. Basic Chicken Stock
96. Turkey Stock
97. Homemade Beef Stock
98. White Veal Stock
99. Vegetable Stock
100. Fish Stock
101. Mushroom Stock