Fast Soups

These fast and delicious soup recipes include silky tortilla soup, gingered carrot soup and hearty white bean and ham soup.

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Cabbage, Kielbasa and Rice Soup

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Good sausage is an excellent time-saver, because the links are already spiced and seasoned. The slices of Polish kielbasa in this soup add a wonderfully smoky, peppery, garlicky flavor.

How to Make Homemade Sausage

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Thai Coconut Seafood Soup

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Shrimp and scallops are excellent for quick meals, since they take just minutes to cook perfectly.

Fast Thai Dishes

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Zucchini-and-Watercress Soup

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Sophie Dahl likes eating peppery watercress in the spring and has figured out a way to highlight its bright flavor in this silky soup. A single tablespoon of cream gives the vivid green soup a touch of richness.

Delicious Zucchini

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Cannellini and Escarole Soup with Garlic Oil

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Chicken-and-Avocado Soup with Fried Tortillas

SUSAN SPUNGEN

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Here's a silky soup that doesn't rely on cream for its creamy texture; pureed avocados do the job nicely. It doesn't rely on long cooking for its full flavor, either—the soup's in the pot for less than ten minutes.

Avocado Recipes

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Quick Vietnamese Noodle Soup with Beef

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Rocco DiSpirito likes to heat shirataki noodles (a low-calorie noodle made from tofu or a kind of sweet potato) in store-bought chicken broth seasoned with lime juice.

Noodle Soups

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Barley Soup with Scotch

Fredrika Stjärne

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The idea for this hearty, risotto-style soup came to Frédéric Morin while he was sitting on a combine in his uncle's barley field. He could smell the peat from the neighboring farm, which reminded him of Scotch whisky.

Barley Recipes

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Cambodian Chicken-and-Rice Soup with Shrimp

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For this spicy, soothing and restorative chicken-and-rice soup, Ratha Chau prepares his own delectable chicken stock and roasts a chicken, which is then cut into large pieces and added to it. Using prepared stock and preroasted chicken significantly cuts back on prep time.

Asian Soups

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Silky Cauliflower Soup

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Cauliflower Recipes

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Carrot, Squash, and Jerusalem-Artichoke Soup with White Beans

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Colorful vegetables brighten our satisfying brothy soup. If Jerusalem artichokes (also called sunchokes) aren't available in your area, substitute another flavorful, slightly scratchy vegetable such as parsnips or turnips, or simple increase the quantities of the other vegetables in the soup.

Vegetable Recipes

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Pork and Pink Bean Soup with Corn Muffin Croutons

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This thick and savory soup, which is reminiscent of cowboy campfire cooking, is a delicious cross between baked beans and tomato soup. The crunchy, sweet corn muffin croutons make it even more rustic.

Campfire Cooking

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Gingered Carrot Soup with Crème Fraîche

Tina Rupp

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Great Carrots

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Chicken and Potato Soup with Lemongrass

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Chicken Soup

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Thai Chicken Stew with Potato-Chive Dumplings

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Pino Maffeo serves his vibrant, spicy, warming stew with gai lan (Chinese broccoli). Sautéed garlic chives stud his plump potato dumplings. Baby bok choy, an easy-to-find Chinese green, replaces the gai lan, while regular chives substitute for the garlic chives.

Thai Dishes

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Scallop and Mushroom Soup with Ginger and Leeks

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Delicious Scallops

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Black Bean Soup with Avocado Salsa

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Black beans, often served in a soup or stew, have been a mainstay of Mexican cuisine for thousands of years. Black-bean soup is also popular in the Caribbean, where rum, sherry, or peppered wine is often added toward the end of cooking. We add the sherry somewhat earlier in this version, which combines elements of both traditions.

Black Beans

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Parsnip and Carrot Soup

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Perfect Parsnips

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Chunky Borscht

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Brothy and brimming with beets, parsnips, turnip, celery root, and slices of kielbasa, this earthy beet soup gets a finishing touch of sour cream and fresh dill. Serve it in big bowls with plenty of crusty bread for an appetizing cold-weather dinner.

Great Beets

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White Bean and Ham Soup

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When Grace Parisi was growing up, her mother made white bean and escarole soup every Friday. To transform the soup into a main course, Parisi substitutes ham and spiced croutons for the greens.

Bean Recipes

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Spicy Crab Bisque

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Tanya Holland's decadent crab bisque is studded with plenty of lump crabmeat. Thanks to a hit of cayenne and Tabasco, the soup has a sneaky heat.

Spicy Recipes

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Ratatouille Minestrone

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This is a terrific way to use leftover cooked vegetables. They get stirred into a flavorful, healthy broth along with pasta and beans.

Best Vegetable Soups

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Kale and White-Bean Stew

Susan Spungen

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Combining Two Portuguese favorites—kale-and-sausage soup and a bean, sausage, and tomato stew—makes a simple, sensational one-pot meal. To keep the focus on the vegetables, we've used just a tiny amount of fresh sausage; you can add more, if you like, or substitute dried chorizo or pepperoni.

One Pot Meals

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Creamy Piquillo Pepper and Chickpea Soup with Chicken

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The secret to this speedy soup is buying ingredients with lots of built-in flavor, like hummus and jarred piquillo peppers.

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Fast Soups

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Cabbage, Kielbasa and Rice Soup

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Thai Coconut Seafood Soup

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Zucchini-and-Watercress Soup

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Cannellini and Escarole Soup with Garlic Oil

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Chicken-and-Avocado Soup with Fried Tortillas

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Quick Vietnamese Noodle Soup with Beef

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Barley Soup with Scotch

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Cambodian Chicken-and-Rice Soup with Shrimp

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Silky Cauliflower Soup

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Carrot, Squash, and Jerusalem-Artichoke Soup with White Beans

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Pork and Pink Bean Soup with Corn Muffin Croutons

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Gingered Carrot Soup with Crème Fraîche

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Chicken and Potato Soup with Lemongrass

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Thai Chicken Stew with Potato-Chive Dumplings

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Scallop and Mushroom Soup with Ginger and Leeks

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Black Bean Soup with Avocado Salsa

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Parsnip and Carrot Soup

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Chunky Borscht

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White Bean and Ham Soup

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Spicy Crab Bisque

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Ratatouille Minestrone

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Kale and White-Bean Stew

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Creamy Piquillo Pepper and Chickpea Soup with Chicken

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