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Add these healthy soup recipes to your regular rotation! These hearty recipes are loaded with vegetables and are filling enough to make a meal.

Looking for healthy soup recipes to add to your meal rotation? Our definition of “healthy” is a soup that’s loaded with vegetables and nutrients, and can work as the main dish in meal. There are lots of soups that claim to be “healthy,” but are just purees that don’t fill you up.
Each one of these healthy soups below tried and tested and fan favorites of our family! They work as a meal with a few fresh and simple sides, instead of having to load up on grilled cheese to feel satisfied. We’ve listed the prep time here so you can choose based on what you have time for.
Our top healthy soup recipes
Our top healthy soup recipe: wild rice soup! This fan favorite soup is delectably creamy and delicious: it's packed with plant-based protein from cashews, white beans, and hearty wild rice. The flavor is out of this world! Everyone who tastes it becomes a believer. Make a big batch and freeze leftovers!
Total time: 1 hour
Here’s a healthy soup recipe you’ll immediately add to your regular rotation…because it’s just that good. Try this White Bean Soup, full of humble ingredients and huge flavor! Tender white beans float in the cozy broth with soft potatoes and leafy kale. Lemon zest lends brightness and tarragon brings an herby nuance.
Total time: 35 minutes
This easy lentil soup is only 7 ingredients and simple to meal prep as a lunch or dinner recipe! It’s one of our top cheap and delicious healthy meal prep ideas. We've made this more times than we can count!
Total time: 50 minutes
Looking for a flavor-packed healthy soup? Try this easy cabbage soup. Though it’s humble, cabbage makes incredibly delicious dishes. Here it makes a hearty, satisfying soup, packed with veggies that swim in a savory-spiced broth of fire roasted tomatoes.
Total time: 35 minutes
Need a healthy soup recipe that pleases everyone? Here hearty Tuscan kale, white beans, and tomatoes float in a tangy broth flavored with oregano and fennel. It’s like a combination of all our favorite soup recipes in one bowl: comforting and full of bold Mediterranean-style flavors.
Total time: 30 minutes
This black bean soup recipe is the ideal healthy and easy meal! Using canned beans makes it possible to whip it up in 30 minutes. It’s creamy, garlicky and hearty. Top it with pico de gallo for a bright and zingy contrast in flavors.
Total time: 30 minutes
Here’s a cozy bowl that’s so hearty and satisfying, you’ll never want to put your spoon down. Try this bean soup! Kidney beans and navy beans float in a savory, smoky broth of fire roasted tomatoes that has just the right glossy texture. It uses canned beans, but it tastes like it’s been simmering all day.
Total time: 35 minutes
This healthy broccoli potato soup looks like it's cheesy, but it's all an illusion! Blend up cashews with a bit of the soup, and it forms a thick and creamy body that's packed with flavor. Broccoli and carrots add a big dose of nutrients.
Total time: 35 minutes
Does chili count as soup? Because this healthy chili is a must-add to your healthy soup list! This hearty chili features black beans, quinoa, and a zingy broth. Fire-roasted tomatoes make the flavor shine.
Total time: 30 minutes
If there’s a healthy soup that always satisfies, it’s a great lentil soup. Lentils are one of nature’s wonders: they’re full of protein, shelf stable for years, inexpensive, and make for some of the most satisfying filling meals. This simple red lentil soup is deliciously hearty, featuring aromatic vegetables, lemon and a hint of smoked paprika.
Total time: 25 minutes
You’ll love this simple tofu soup recipe, a tasty, nourishing plant-based meal! Cubes of tofu float in a savory broth flavored with miso, ginger, dried mushrooms, and fresh mushrooms. Add crunchy carrots and green onions just before serving, and it’s a satisfying combination of earthiness with crisp vegetables.
Total time: 30 minutes
This healthy vegetable soup is packed with as many veggies as possible! Carrots, green beans, bell peppers, peas, and beans all dance in a savory broth. It's like a fresh spin on canned noodle soup.
Total time: 35 minutes
Split pea soup is incredibly simple and hearty, with all the filling protein of this healthy legume! This healthy soup version uses a few tricks to simulate a smoky flavor without the traditional ham.
Total time: 1 hour
This healthy soup is full of big Italian flavors: intense vibrant tomato, leafy Tuscan kale, and a creamy broth made with Parmesan rind. Swimming in it all are the chickpeas and pasta of the soup’s title, making it hearty and filling.
Total time: 30 minutes
This healthy mushroom barley soup has a warming broth and nutritious veggies. Barley infuses each bite with a pasta-like chewy texture. It’s perfect for healthy desk lunches in a thermos or enjoying a big steaming bowl after a long day.
Total time: 55 minutes
Some gnocchi soup is full of cream and butter: but not this one! This healthy gnocchi soup is homey, comforting, and heart-meltingly good, filled with lots of veggies: tomatoes, green beans and chickpeas.
Total time: 35 minutes
One of our favorite healthy soups of all time? This black bean tortilla soup! It takes just over 30 minutes to make beautifully bright, tangy flavor. Black beans and corn float in a beautiful brothy with a hint of smoky adobo sauce.
Total time: 35 minutes
Here’s a tasty, simple soup that impresses every time: spinach tortellini soup! Doughy pillows of tortellini float in a tangy, tomato broth seasoned with Italian herbs and Parmesan cheese. It’s loaded up with nutrient-dense spinach and tender vegetables like carrot and fennel.
Total time: 30 minutes
Here’s a vegan soup recipe you’ll immediately add to your regular rotation. Try this White Bean Soup, full of humble ingredients and huge flavor! Tender white beans float in the cozy broth with soft potatoes and leafy kale. Lemon zest lends brightness and tarragon brings an herby nuance.
Here's a soup full of superfoods: this butternut squash lentil soup tastes like a bowl of sunshine. It’s chock full of beautiful, colorful healthy ingredients, and it tastes surprisingly more delicious than you’d imagine from the humble ingredients.
Total time: 50 minutes
This cozy healthy soup is made of veggies that taste bright and restorative! It’s like a chicken rice soup made with chickpeas instead. Tender grains of rice make for a satisfying thick body to the turmeric and ginger-infused broth, with a punch of lemon zest to brighten each spoonful.
Total time: 35 minutes
Healthy side dishes for soup
What to pair with these healthy soup recipes to make it a meal? Here are some of our favorites sides for soups:
- Grab an arugula salad or goat cheese salad.
- Make sliced apples and fruit dip.
- Bake up cornbread muffins, skillet cornbread, or garlic toast.
- Try kale salad or kale quinoa salad.
Healthy Vegetable Soup (& More Recipes)
This cabbage soup recipe is easy with big, bold flavor! Cozy up to a bowl of this veggie-packed healthy soup.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: Soup
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Vegan
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter or olive oil
- 1 medium yellow onion, small diced
- 2 medium carrots, small diced
- 2 celery ribs, small diced
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 teaspoons each garlic powder and dried basil
- 1 teaspoon each dried oregano and dried thyme
- 1/2 medium green cabbage, shredded (6 to 7 cups)
- 15-ounce can white beans
- 28-ounce can crushed fire roasted tomatoes* (or best quality crushed tomatoes)
- 1 quart vegetable broth
- 1 ¼ teaspoons kosher salt
- ½ teaspoon sugar
- Chopped Italian parsley, for garnish
Instructions
- In a large pot or Dutch oven, heat the butter or olive oil over medium high heat. Add the onion, carrot and celery, and cook, stirring occasionally, for about 8 to 10 minutes, until the celery is tender and the vegetables have released their juices.
- Add the garlic, garlic powder, basil, oregano, and thyme and cook for 1 minute. Add the cabbage, white beans, crushed tomatoes, vegetable broth, salt, and sugar. Bring to a simmer and simmer 10 to 15 minutes until the cabbage is tender. Serve immediately, garnished with parsley.
Notes
*Can’t find fire roasted tomatoes? Substitute the best quality crushed tomatoes you can find. If you’d like, add an extra 1 teaspoon sugar and ½ teaspoon smoked paprika to the broth.
More soup ideas
There are so many soup recipes to try, outside of these healthy soup recipes! Here are a few collections of soups by topic:
- Pick from our top soup recipes, vegetarian soup recipes or vegan soup recipes
- Browse seasonal winter soup or fall soup recipes
- Grab Italian soup recipes, or use your pressure cooker for our Instant Pot soup recipes
What happens if you use wild rice blend instead of wild rice?
The cook time is usually a lot shorter!
Hey! Thank you for the great recipes. I can’t find wild rice in NZ ~ do you have a substitute option?
There’s not really a sub for it! Sorry. This recipe has a similar coziness though: https://www.acouplecooks.com/vegan-mushroom-soup/
What kind of white beans do you use?
We use navy or cannelini.
This looked yummy! I couldn’t tell if you added pre cooked rice or not?! What did you recommend? :) Love your recipes!
Hi! We simmer the wild rice in the soup.
I made this soup toďay and it’s delicious and easy to make.
Shall be having it for lunch tomorrow (might share it with my mum).
And freeze some too.
Let us know if you have any questions!