Best Easy Soup - Not Red Meat

[Anonymous]

We do our big dinners leading up to Christmas. Husbands birthday is the 22nd so will make lasagna for that and then Christmas Eve is our big meal with beef and mashed potatoes. Don't want to do anything fancy on Christmas, would rather lay around and relax all day. However we will have family in town, so looking for a special simple soup, hopefully where you just dump everything in. It will be a cold day so something that simmers and smells nice would be great. Hoping for white meat as we will have had a lot of red meat.

Thoughts?

[Anonymous]

A green chile chicken chili would be nice. Or a chicken broth pho or ramen.

[Anonymous]

This soup is on frequent rotation. Freezes well too.
https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking/recipes/a82077/slow-cooker-chicken-tortilla-soup/

[Anonymous]

I like to make lentil soup with lots of vegetables and spicy turkey sausage.

[Anonymous]

Chicken tortilla soup smells good - better than many of the bean based ones. How about chicken stew with dumplings? The dumplings just happen at the very end. Or ratatouille?

[Anonymous]

It’s going to be frigid this week where I am - I’m planning to make a pot of minestrone soup.

[Anonymous]

I made this recently and it's delicious -- the ginger really adds complexity and gives it a very hearty autumn/winter flavor. It pairs really well with dressed up grilled cheese or just with a hunk of hearty homemade bread.

https://www.acouplecooks.com/carrot-ginger-soup/

[Anonymous]

Ina Gartens lentil soup. But use onions istead leaks.

[Anonymous]

Ellie Krieger low sodium minestrone: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ellie-krieger/minestrone-soup-recipe-1973378.amp

[Anonymous]

Sounds delicious but, for me, soups are always a lot more work than I bargain for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds delicious but, for me, soups are always a lot more work than I bargain for.

The carrot ginger I linked above is SO EASY. You chop the veggies and ginger (you can use a food processor if you hate chopping and don't mind washing a food processor). Then you just cook them until soft, add your fats (broth and coconut milk in that case) and once everything is soft enough, run the immersion blender for a few minutes until smooth. It's like 15 minutes tops of active cooking time. You can do similar things with broccoli cheddar and other vegetarian soups.

Soups with meat or more complex stews/chilis take longer and are generally more work. I save those for a Sunday afternoon when I can make a big batch and ideally freeze some to have in a couple weeks. But veggies soups with an immersion blender are super easy weeknight dinners.

[Anonymous]

A simplified chicken and dumplings (Cook’s Country’s is great, but I don’t add cream to the soup anymore and I make the dumplings with half milk, half cream and half the baking powder. They claim they’ll be tough, but I think they’re better).

Budget Bytes Swamp Soup.

Tortilla Soup.

White chicken chili.

Wapo’s Loaded Baked Potato Soup.

[Anonymous]

Keto faux tato soup made with cheese onions butter and cauliflower florets.

[Anonymous]

Turkey chili. Serve with cornbread and fixings.

[Anonymous]

Chicken noodle soup. Boil a chicken the day before (or buy one already cooked), shred, reserve the broth if you boil your own or buy 2 cartons of broth, shred some carrots, chop celery, add noodles, salt + pepper to taste. Easy + tasty.