22 Hearty Soups to Serve for Dinner

A hearty soup makes an excellent comforting dinner. Server side of bread or a salad and dinner is done! Leftovers are great for lunch!
22 Hearty Soups to Serve for Dinner

Sharing today, my favorite filling soup recipes that I love to serve for dinner. 

A hearty soup makes an excellent comforting dinner. Server side of bread or a salad to make it even more substantial.

Many soups in this collection are vegetarian with filling beans, pasta and rice. Feel free to substitute rice or pasta with quinoa to make it your own.

From classic Chicken Noodle Soup, Malaysian Laksa to Vietnamize Pho, this collection will take your family to a tour of the world cuisine from comfort of your own kitchen. 

So skip the take out, try these comforting and filling soups for family dinner. 

Enjoy!

Vegetable Barley Soup

Hearty, and delicious Barley Soup loaded with veggies and flavorful broth, all cooked in one Instant Pot for a comforting chili night family dinner. This soup is everything you desire from a good vegetarian soup. It is healthy, hearty, filling and so flavorful that no one misses meat. The rich tomato broth...

Italian Sausage and Kale Soup

Quick and healthy Sausage and Kale Soup for dinner! Flavorful Italian Soup broth with succulent chicken sausage, hearty beans and kale. This Sausage Kale Soup is a healthy, gluten-free, and an easy dinner recipe that whole family will love. Ready in 30 mins, start to finish. It is made on the stove top and...

Chicken Khao Soi - Yellow Coconut Curry Soup

Chicken Khao Soi - A deliciously sweet and spicy Yellow Coconut Curry Soup made with homemade Thai yellow curry paste. Loaded with white meat chicken and rice (zucchini) noodles.. This flavorful soup is my low-carb take on traditional Khao Soi - a Northern Thai Yellow Curry Soup. Gluten free, dairy free, s...

Pho in Instant Pot

Pho, Vietnamese Noodle Soup with signature rich, meaty, and savory broth loaded with fresh toppings, bursting with flavor, and perfect for a chili night dinner. This scrumptious aromatic soup is must try once in lifetime. Pho soup works multi-duty. It's spiced savory broth warms from within. It's nutrients...

Instant Pot Chicken Noodle Soup

Ultimate Chicken Noodle Soup prepared from scratch in Instant Pot. Fresh chicken, even pasta cooked in one pot for a complete one-pot meal. All ready in just 25 minutes. Start of winter and we have Chicken Noodle Soup simmering in our kitchen many times a week. Specially, homemade Chicken Noodle Soup is ou...

Easy Posole Rojo Turkey Soup

I dig this soup. Posole Rojo is something I will not wait thanksgiving leftovers for. But, I had a batch of leftover turkey, from my Stuffed Turkey Breast recipe, in freezer. So, I thought why not?! Last Tuesday, dinner was Turkey Posole Rojo with Cilantro Lime Rice. This Pozole soup is much simpler to put...

Cabbage Lentil Soup

This recipe combines two of my favorite soups in one pot - creamy lentil soup and healthy filling cabbage soup.It is like vegetarian cabbage soup getting a dose of lentil proteins. First in this recipe, I combined the good nutrition of both: protein of lentils and filling nature of cabbage soup. Then, I ad...

Pasta e Fagioli Soup

Pasta e Fagioli, a hearty one pot pasta and beans dinner soup made with small pasta, aromatics and three kinds of beans simmered in flavorful Italian-style tomato broth. Since pasta is cooked in the same broth, this soup is naturally creamy and stick-to-ribs comforting without any cream or thickeners. For...

One Pot Italian Wedding Soup

Flavorful and hearty Italian wedding soup with meatballs, pasta and kale.. all cooked in one pot for an easy winter meal. Why Wedding Soup? Well, no, I'm not hosting a wedding party.. but a comforting winter soup such as Italian Wedding Soup with pasta does not need a special occasion! Don't you think?! Ac...

Laksa Soup

Starting Monday with a flavorful meatless vegetarian coconut curry soup made with Malaysian-style red curry paste called Laksa. Just like any other glorious bowl of Curry Soup, I like to eat Laksa soup loaded with zucchini simmered in creamy spicy coconut-curry broth, topped with silky rice noodles and fre...

Vegetarian Stuffed Pepper Soup

Can't beat comfort of stuffed pepper casserole for winter dinner! This vegetarian stuffed peppers soup is hearty yet lean with healthy chickpea protein, filling with a serving of rice, and loaded with flavors stuffed peppers. Just one soup and dinner is served! You can call it stuffed pepper soup or decons...

Lemon Chicken Rice Soup in Pressure Cooker

Lemon Chicken Rice Soup, a healthy made from scratch chicken and rice soup with lots of fresh herbs, lemon and carrot noodles. Friends, this gluten free soup will fly from kitchen to dinner table because it is all done in pressure cooker in just 20 minutes!Will you believe it's raining, in our part of worl...

15 Minutes Easy Kale Tortellini Soup

A deliciously simple kale soup with flavorful lite broth, creamy Tortellini pasta and a touch parmesan. This soup speaks "comfort" without undoing your diet. Also, 15 minutes and just simple 7 easy-to-find ingredients and Kale Tortellini Soup fly from kitchen to dinner table.... or even for weekend lunch f...

Slow Cooker Turnip, Kale and Lentil Soup

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Tomato and Rice Soup with Chickpeas

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Chicken Noodle Soup in Pressure Cooker

Pressure cooker is one kitchen equipment that you will find in every Indian household. Many reasons!! Top most is because we love lentils, and dried lentils require long cooking time. Hence pressure cooker is appliance of choice for getting food on table, faster!Also, Pressure Cooker, as name suggests, coo...

Vegetarian Mulligatawny Soup

Starting Monday with vegetarian curry soup, famous by name Mulligatawny Soup all over the world. This soup has Indian-European origin and is more popular outside India. Even though popular outside India, anyone who loves Indian flavor will immediately connect with this soup. Curry powder, lentils, garam ma...

Green Chili - Chicken Chili Verde

Chicken Chile Verde, or Green Chili as I prefer to call it is a tangy and hearty chicken and white beans stew which gets it's signature green color from green tomatillos. With warmth of spices, heat of chilies, creamy beans and moist chicken.. this Green Chili Recipe will be your perfect companion on a Chi...

Chicken Stew (Instant Pot)

This Chicken Stew recipe has chicken thighs braised with fragrant spices, hearty lentils, sausage, sweet potato and aromatic tomato-spice broth. It is a bone-warming, chili night Chicken Dinner which you can prepare, in Instant Pot, at moment's notice. Also including instructions to cook Chicken Stew on st...

Chicken and Wild Rice Soup in Slow Cooker

Easy creamy chicken and wild rice soup with artichokes, spinach and flavorful spices... prepared in your trusty slow cooker. Healthy dose of spinach, some boneless chicken, and some potent spices is my go-to recipe for wild rice soups. For this version, I also added some frozen artichokes, carrots, and lem...

Split Pea Soup in Slow Cooker

It's official! Soups are ON in my kitchen. Starting Monday with slow cooker split pea soup.I was so eager to share my favorite Split Pea Soup recipe with you that I decided to post few hours early. This split pea soup is vegetarian. Yes, vegetarian, without ham and I can tell you it is still so so flavorfu...

Lamb and Potatoes Stew

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Mediterranean Chicken Stew

This Mediterranean Chicken Stew recipe makes bold flavor packed and hearty Chicken Stew loaded with fragrant spices, kale and beans. It is a perfect bowl of comfort that you can make in less than an hour start to finish. Gluten free and can be dairy free when served without cheese.Oh, also including instru...

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9 Responses

  1. This is an incredible collection! I was not quite sure which one to start with but I so far made three of them and tonight I will make the chicken noodle soup as it sounds and looks soo good.
  2. So many wonderful soups here! They all sounds perfect and cozy. The instant pot pho sounds like something Ill be making this week!
  3. Such a tasty list of so many delicious looking soup options. I cannot wait to give a few of them a try!
  4. My favorite soup in this list thus far is the cabbage lentil soup. The rest seem like great ideas and I cant wait to try them all!
  5. This is a great collection of dinner soups. So far Ive gone through the first 5 and all were fantastic! Cant wait to make the rest.
  6. Excellent soup roundup here! I am especially drawn to the Italian Sausage and Kale Soup recipe. YUM!
  7. Wow, what a treasure trove of amazing soup recipes. Im not sure which one I want to start with, its so difficult to decide! This list should get me through the rest of the winter.
  8. What a delicious collection of soups! Ill definitely be trying a few of those recipes.
  9. All of these soups look great, but the tomato and rice soup with chickpeas is really calling to me. I cant wait to try it out and share it with my family.