Thanksgiving Vegetable Soups

By Food & Wine
Updated May 17, 2017
From gingered butternut squash soup to silky sweet potato and apple soup, here are superb Thanksgiving vegetable soups.
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Roasted Root Vegetable Soup

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You can adjust the amount of each vegetable to suit your taste, but keep the total quantity the same.

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Winter Squash Soup with Pie Spices

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Lee Hefter loves the spices used for pumpkin pie, so he makes this silky, fragrant soup with them.

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Silky Cauliflower Soup

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Thanksgiving Make-Ahead Tip: The soup can be made ahead and refrigerated for up to 2 days.

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Broccoli-Leek Soup with Lemon-Chive Cream

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Gingered Butternut Squash Soup with Spicy Pecan Cream

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Dean Fearing loves the holiday feel of butternut squash, especially when it’s combined with ginger, as it is for his smooth, gently sweet soup. He tops it with whipped cream flecked with chopped pecans for a number of reasons: “Usually holiday soups have a dollop of cream—adding pecans gives it a dollop of flavor. And crunch. I think everything should have a little bit of crunch to it. Plus, this is Texas, and pecans are Texas.”

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Potato, Leek and Broccoli Soup with Pancetta Crumbs

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If you have a blender and good chicken broth, Kristin Kimball swears it’s one of the easiest soups to make. This version has a fabulous topping of supercrispy sourdough and pancetta crumbs mixed with sage and rosemary.

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Sweet Potato and Apple Soup

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Cauliflower Soup with Pecans and Rye Croutons

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Mary Ellen Diaz loves how cauliflower adds a natural, clean flavor to this luscious soup as well as lots of vitamins: Three florets provide close to half the daily requirement of vitamin C.

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Nordic Winter Vegetable Soup

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Trina Hahnemann calls the root vegetables in this simple vegetarian soup the “gold of Nordic soil” because they’re high in nutrients and grow well in cold climates.

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Gingery Sweet Potato Soup

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Sweet potatoes are a great source of beta-carotene, essential for vision. The soup uses only one cup of the ginger broth; the rest makes a terrific cooking liquid for grains like quinoa.

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