Food and Recipes Dish Soup Homemade Vegetable Soup Recipes For Cold Winter Nights By Jenna Sims Jenna Sims Jenna is a Digital Editor for Southern Living and joined the team in 2014. She writes, produces, and assigns content with a focus on email growth and commerce content. She covers a range of topics in the lifestyle space from holiday gift guides to new product launches to tips for cooking with your air fryer. Southern Living's editorial guidelines Updated on July 30, 2022 Share Tweet Pin Email Trending Videos Photo: Greg DuPree There's almost nothing more satisfying on a cold winter night than a bowl of warm, homemade vegetable soup. Soups are also great weeknight meal solutions because they are often made in a slow-cooker or are freezer-friendly, so your dinner is already prepared when you walk through the door after a busy day. (That's what we call a weeknight win.) Make a double-batch of soup and stash half of it away in the freezer for future dinnertime emergencies. Whether you prefer your soup with chicken, ground beef, or just veggies, these hearty recipes will become your new favorites. Our vegetable soup recipes will help you eat all the colors of the rainbow, from our orange Sweet Potato Soup to our green Creamy White Bean-and-Chard Soup and Broccoli-Spinach Soup with Parmesan Croutons. These vegetable soup recipes are healthy, hearty, and ultra-satisfying. Break out the Dutch oven, the slow-cooker, or the Instant Pot—it's time to get stewing. 01 of 14 Instant Pot Vegetable Soup Alison Miksch; Prop Styling: Sarah Elizabeth Cleveland; Food Styling: Melissa Gray Recipe: Instant Pot Vegetable Soup Make your big batch of vegetable soup with a little help from the Instant Pot. 02 of 14 Broccoli-Spinach Soup with Parmesan Croutons Antonis Achilleos; Prop Styling; Heather Chadduck Hillegas; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall Recipe: Broccoli-Spinach Soup with Parmesan Croutons Forget broccoli-cheddar: we're opting for Broccoli-Spinach Soup this season. 03 of 14 Ground Beef Vegetable Soup with Gnocchi Antonis Achilleos; Prop Styling: Kathleen Varner; Food Styling: Maggie Ruggiero Recipe: Ground Beef Vegetable Soup with Gnocchi Gnocchi adds extra substance to this hearty veggie soup. 04 of 14 Sweet Potato-Carrot Soup Greg DuPree; Food Styling: Rishon Hanners; Prop Styling: Prissy Lee Montiel Recipe: Sweet Potato-Carrot Soup Try one of the two variations on this Any-Veggie Soup. 05 of 14 Vegetable Soup with Basil Pesto Hector Sanchez; Styling: Caroline M. Cunningham Recipe: Vegetable Soup with Basil Pesto Full of bright flavors, this soup will be suitable even in the warm weather. 06 of 14 Instant Pot Creamy Root Vegetable Soup Victor Protasio; Food Styling: Rishon Hanners; Prop Styling: Audrey Davis Recipe: Instant Pot Creamy Root Vegetable Soup Root vegetables form a sturdy base for this smooth, creamy soup. 07 of 14 Sweet Potato Soup Greg DuPree Recipe: Sweet Potato Soup Sweet potatoes lend this soup their lovely orange hue. 08 of 14 Chunky Vegetable Beef Soup Southern Living Recipe: Chunky Vegetable Beef Soup This homemade soup recipe is ready in just 45 minutes, but is also great to freeze and have on hand for busy weeknights when you don't have any time to spend in the kitchen cooking dinner. 09 of 14 Creamy White Bean-and-Chard Soup Antonis Achilleos; Prop Styling: Christine Keely; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall Recipe: Creamy White Bean-and-Chard Soup Chard brings its pretty green color to this wintery soup. 10 of 14 Broccoli-Cheddar Soup Southern Living Recipe: Broccoli-Cheddar Soup You know it, you love it, and now you can make it at home. 11 of 14 Lemon Chicken Vegetable Soup Jennifer Davick Recipe: Lemon Chicken Vegetable Soup While vegetable soup recipes do not usually call for lemons, they help bring out the flavor in the dish. Just toss everything in your slow cooker, and you'll have a warm meal waiting for your family as soon as you walk through the door. 12 of 14 Bryant Terry's Turnip Green Soup Ed Anderson Recipe: Bryant Terry's Turnip Green Soup This vegan soup is a great option for cold winter weeknights. 13 of 14 Vegetable Beef Soup Jennifer Davick Recipe: Vegetable Beef Soup Beef stew meat adds flavor to this hearty veggie soup that requires just 15 minutes of hands-on time to prepare. 14 of 14 Hearty Beef and Freezer Veggie Soup Greg DuPree Recipe: Hearty Beef and Freezer Veggie Soup Just because this soup is homemade, doesn't mean you have to spend all day in the kitchen. This hearty pot of beef, veggies, and pasta comes together in just 40 minutes. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit