Best Vegetarian Summer Soup Recipes

Hot days call for cold soup! Cool off this summer with these refreshing cold soup recipes. They include classic gazpacho, chilled corn soup, and more.

Cold soup is one of my summer obsessions, right up there with salads, cold brew, and everything sweet corn. On a hot summer day, there’s nothing I crave more. Cold soup is hydrating, refreshing, and brimming with peak-season produce. Often, its flavor improves after a day or two in the fridge, so it’s the sort of thing you can make ahead and keep on hand for easy, no-cook summer meals.

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You’ll find 9 of my go-to cold soup recipes below. They include classics like gazpacho and chilled cucumber soup as well as out-of-the-box ideas like cold carrot coconut soup and sweet corn gazpacho. These recipes are ones I look forward to making every summer. I hope you love them as much as I do.

Summer Soup Recipes For Warm Weather

With their sweet, tangy flavor and high water content, tomatoes are prime candidates for blending into cold soup. These recipes are perfect for warm days in mid-late summer, when tomatoes are in top form.

This recipe is a simplified riff on classic Spanish gazpacho. I make it without the traditional bread, yielding a light, flavorful soup that’s totally vegan and gluten-free.

Yellow tomatoes + cilantro + cucumber = a gorgeous green gazpacho! I blend sunflower seeds into this simple soup to give it a smooth, creamy texture.

Summer Chicken Vegetable Soup

Don’t worry – this gazpacho isn’t sweet. Instead, it’s deliciously nuanced and balanced, as the watermelon’s sweetness offsets the bite of the red wine vinegar, green onions, and garlic.

Here, I char the tomatoes before I blend them. This quick and easy step adds smoky depth of flavor to this yummy summer soup.

I know, I know – cucumber is a key ingredient in classic gazpacho, and you’ll find it in almost all of the chilled tomato soup recipes above. But in the cold soup recipes in this category, the tomatoes step aside, letting crisp, cool cucumbers become the star of the show.

Corn Soup Recipes For Summer

Charred tomatillos infuse this cool soup with a kick of tangy flavor. Top it off with sliced cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, and fresh corn kernels for crunch.

Chilled soup with…carrots? Cold zucchini soup? You betcha. Though unconventional, these cold soup recipes are delicious and nourishing. Add them to your to-make list ASAP!

Make this recipe after a trip to the farmers market, when you’ve scored a vibrant bunch of local carrots. Their sweet, earthy flavor will contrast beautifully with the rich coconut milk, aromatic lemongrass, and spicy curry paste in this soup.

Summer Creamy Vegetable Soup

Sweet corn, yellow tomatoes, and yellow bell peppers combine to create this soup’s sunny color. Thanks to the corn and a splash of sherry vinegar, it has a lovely sweet and tangy flavor.

After you’ve baked your umpteenth loaf of zucchini bread, change things up and make this zucchini soup! I always top my bowl with a few homemade croutons to add heft and crunch to this light, creamy dish.

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Garden Vegetable Soup Recipe

We love to eat, travel, cook, and eat some more! We create & photograph vegetarian recipes from our home in Chicago, while our shiba pups eat the kale stems that fall on the kitchen floor.Make this summer minestrone soup with fresh garden vegetables. This recipe is made with chicken broth (use vegetarian for vegetarian minestrone), white beans, a little pasta, and tons of veggies.

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When it's summer's high season, and the garden is overflowing with more vegetables than one can reasonably consume, a great way to make use of the bounty is to make minestrone soup.

Best Chicken Gnocchi Soup Recipe

A few zucchini here, a couple of chopped tomatoes there, some beans, grab the lonely leek that's sitting in the fridge, add some chicken stock, a handful of pasta, and in a few minutes, you have summer in a soup.

You can use vegetable or chicken stock. The soup can be thin and focused on the broth, or it can be thick and stew-like.

On a recent trip to Italy, visiting my sweetheart's Italian relatives, we were served minestrone twice, both times with apologies (I'm sorry we don't have anything special for you, only minestrone), and both times the broth was exquisite, the vegetables perfectly fresh and tender.

Outrageously Delicious Vegetable Soup

This summer minestrone recipe captures the freshness of the soups we had in Italy. It's probably a bit thicker, we are serving up more veggies for the broth, but the taste is spot on.

Consider the recipe a guideline, and feel free to play with the amounts or types of vegetables. Make it your improvisation! (And let us know how it goes in the comments.)

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Do you keep Parmesan rinds in the freezer? If not, it's time to get in the habit. They're fantastic for flavoring sauces and soups, especially ones with tomato, like this one. Simply throw a rind (or two) into the pot and fish it out when done cooking.

Easy Summer Vegetable Soup

Whether you're refrigerating or freezing this soup, the pasta will expand and become chewy as it continues to soak up liquid. Consider storing it pasta-less and adding cooked pasta to individual servings as needed.

*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2, 000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

Nutrition information is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate. In cases where multiple ingredient alternatives are given, the first listed is calculated for nutrition. Garnishes and optional ingredients are not included.

Summer Soup Recipes (dairy Free, Vegan)

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I eat vegan soup recipes and stew all year, but the true season of cozy pots is right now. I thought I would round up all of my best options to keep you warm and cozy. Many of these skew towards the hearty stew column, which I know we all love. Making a big pot of soup is my favourite weekday lunch strategy this time of year (it’s also my only lunch strategy haha). Heating up the leftovers with a little slice of bread (or 3) on the side is my dream lunch seriously.

Every good soup starts with delicious vegetable stock! Don’t forget to check out my recipe for a flavour-boosted stock that kicks things off on the right foot.

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Best Vegan Soup Recipes

I hope you can find some new inspiration here! There’s plenty more in my soup category right here. I also have some excellent soups in my cookbook too. I know this is the season of hunkering down and minimal grocery store trips. If you ever have substitution questions, please feel free to ask me in the comments.

1. Fennel Walnut Soup with Leeks & Turmeric. This golden soup is super buttery because of the walnuts that we blend right into the soup! This also makes the simple purée a touch more satiating.

2. Creamy Vegan Mushroom Stew with Farro & Kale. My mushroom-despising partner loved this one and I think that’s saying a lot! The farro is chewy and delicious with the meaty mushrooms. This recipe hovers around 10 ingredients too.

Vegan Soup Recipes

3. Spicy Sesame Carrot Soup with Red Lentils. This is such a deluxe and more satiating twist on classic carrot ginger soup. Slowly sautéed onions, carrots, and spices are blended up with creamy tahini, protein-rich lentils, toasted sesame oil, and a good dose of chillies. Super flavourful and simple to make!

4. Smoky Squash Chili with Quinoa, Pinto & Black Beans. Does a chili count as soup? I think so. This one is so cozy with the smoky flavours, tender cubes of squash, 2 types of beans, and a little bit of quinoa to add to the texture and protein factor.

5. Garlic Pepper Soba with Chili-Roasted Tofu. This is a great, simple soup recipe, but this post also features my vegetable stock making method. Good soup needs good stock ;)

White Bean Soup Recipe (gluten Free!)

6. Coconut Green Soup with Celery, Kale & Ginger. So much more satisfying than a green juice! I love the simplicity of this puréed soup. Sautéed zucchini and coconut milk add to the creamy texture. I love to top this soup with cooked rice, chickpeas, herbs, avocado, whatever I have on hand.

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