At EatingWell, we think every day is a great day for soup—from big pots that simmer all day long, filling your home with delicious aromas, to quick soups you can throw together on a whim, using up bits and bobs from your fridge along with some choice pantry ingredients. Soups nourish us from the inside out.
Every time our food team meets to decide which recipes to develop next, soup is always part of the conversation because we know you are big fans of it too. And in this collection of recipes created for our second annual Souper Bowl, we have a soup recipe for everyone—from cup soups that meal-preppers will fall head-over-heels in love with, to soups you can cook up in 20 minutes or less. And we’re giving you the chance to vote to crown the winner for the best soup recipe of all.
Related: Our 20 Most Popular Soup Recipes of All Time
Here’s How Souper Bowl Voting Works
Each week will bring a new round of voting, so mark your calendars and be sure to check in on Instagram to submit your votes. Voting begins for Round One on January 2, and we’re kicking off with Cup Soups. The remaining three categories will have their matchups over the next three days. Then we’ll take the weekend to rest up before voting for Round Two the week of January 8. We’ll start off the week of January 15 with a halftime show, which is a trivia contest about—you guessed it!—soup. Then the remaining rounds take place over the next two weeks, culminating with the championship on January 23.
If you’re more of the voyeuristic type, you can come back here to see results as they roll in. We’ll be updating this page with results throughout the contest.
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The Contenders
Cup Soups
If you’ve perused the soup aisle of your grocery store recently, you may have noticed an uptick in the variety ofcup soupsavailable these days. And while they’re convenient, delicious and even nostalgic if you grew up with them, they’re typically loaded withsodiumand bereft of vegetables. Enter our homemade cup soups, all created with an eye toward nutrition.Creamy Tomato Soupreceived more than twice as many votes asHigh-Protein Chicken Tortilla Soupand advances to the semifinals on January 22.
Photographer: Jen Causey, Food Stylist: Emily Nabors Hall , Prop Stylist: Shell Royster
Immune Supporting Creamy Tomato Soup (Pack It for Lunch!)Spicy Ramen Noodle Cup Soup Packs 16g ProteinHigh-Protein Tex-Mex Chicken SoupPeanut Noodle Cup Soup
Immune Supporting Creamy Tomato Soup (Pack It for Lunch!)
Spicy Ramen Noodle Cup Soup Packs 16g Protein
High-Protein Tex-Mex Chicken Soup
Peanut Noodle Cup Soup
Lemony Lentil & Cauliflower Cup SoupGut-Healthy Miso Cup SoupEat-the-Rainbow Vegetable SoupEasy Green Tortellini Soup
Lemony Lentil & Cauliflower Cup Soup
Gut-Healthy Miso Cup Soup
Eat-the-Rainbow Vegetable Soup
Easy Green Tortellini Soup
20-Minute Soups
While having a pot of soup simmer away on your stove all afternoon, filling your home with delicious aromas, is a nice idea, we don’t always have time for that. By using a few choice ingredients and quick cooking techniques, it’s easy to get a pot of soup on the table in20 minutes or less. And these soups are just as flavor-packed as their long-simmered cousins. We had our first ever tie in Round 2! But after another round of voting,Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato & Spinach Soup with RavioliwallopedCreamy Mushroom Soup with Sherry, moving on to the January 22 semifinals.
Lemony Chicken & Rice SoupChicken Noodle Soup with Spinach & Parmesan20-Minute Broccoli-Feta Soup20-Minute Creamy Mushroom Soup with Sherry
Lemony Chicken & Rice Soup
Chicken Noodle Soup with Spinach & Parmesan
20-Minute Broccoli-Feta Soup
20-Minute Creamy Mushroom Soup with Sherry
Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato & Spinach Soup with Ravioli20-Minute Udon Noodle Soup with Buttery Tomato BrothItalian Wedding SoupWhite Bean, Kale & Kielbasa Soup Is Ready in Under 20 Minutes
Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato & Spinach Soup with Ravioli
20-Minute Udon Noodle Soup with Buttery Tomato Broth
Italian Wedding Soup
White Bean, Kale & Kielbasa Soup Is Ready in Under 20 Minutes
Copycat Soups
We find recipe inspiration everywhere, from trending recipes on TikTok that we can’t wait to put our own healthier touches on to re-creating our favorite restaurants' dishes so we can enjoy them at home whenever we want. We also like to have fun taking the delicious flavors from one recipe and transforming them into another type of dish. Think: taking the flavors of stuffed cabbage or lasagna and turning it into a soup. And that’s what thiscopycat soupcategory is all about!Chicken Enchilada Soup(last year’s winner) defeatedPasta e Fagiolito move on to the semifinals on January 22.
Copycat Olive Garden Pasta e FagioliRed Curry Coconut Soup with ChickenSwedish Meatball SoupChicken Paprikash Soup
Copycat Olive Garden Pasta e Fagioli
Red Curry Coconut Soup with Chicken
Swedish Meatball Soup
Chicken Paprikash Soup
Stuffed Cabbage SoupChicken Enchilada SoupVegetarian Lasagna SoupCreamy Tomato Soup with Tortellini Has All the Coziness of Grilled Cheese & Tomato Soup
Stuffed Cabbage Soup
Chicken Enchilada Soup
Vegetarian Lasagna Soup
Creamy Tomato Soup with Tortellini Has All the Coziness of Grilled Cheese & Tomato Soup
Slow-Cooker Soups
If you’re the kind of person who has more energy and time in the morning, perhaps it’s worth starting dinner then—in your slow cooker, that is. Bonus: Mostof these delicious soupscook all day long while you’re at work or school, so dinner is waiting for you when you get home. This was the closest round, withPotato-Leek Soup with BoursinbeatingWhite Bean, Spinach & Sausage Soupto move on to the January 22 semifinal round.
Easy Slow-Cooker Potato-Leek Soup with BoursinSlow-Cooker Spinach & Artichoke Chicken SoupSlow-Cooker Sweet Potato & Black Bean ChiliSlow-Cooker Loaded Broccoli & Chicken Soup
Easy Slow-Cooker Potato-Leek Soup with Boursin
Slow-Cooker Spinach & Artichoke Chicken Soup
Slow-Cooker Sweet Potato & Black Bean Chili
Slow-Cooker Loaded Broccoli & Chicken Soup
Slow-Cooker White Bean, Spinach & Sausage StewSlow-Cooker Bean, Kale & Barley SoupVegetarian Slow-Cooker PozoleSlow-Cooker Mulligatawny Soup Is a Cold-Weather Classic
Slow-Cooker White Bean, Spinach & Sausage Stew
Slow-Cooker Bean, Kale & Barley Soup
Vegetarian Slow-Cooker Pozole
Slow-Cooker Mulligatawny Soup Is a Cold-Weather Classic
The Winner
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How Our Recipes Are Developed
Soup can be tricky to fit into our guidelines, particularly when it comes to sodium. That’s why you’ll notice that we often call for lower-sodium ingredients—no-salt-added canned beans and tomatoes and unsalted or low-sodium broth, for example. We find that using those and adding a measure of salt makes for a tastier bowl of soup while letting us better control the overall sodium.
Once the recipes are developed, our food editors review them to suggest any changes before they’re cross-tested. What is cross-testing? This is when someone other than the person who developed the recipe makes the recipe. This step is really important to ensure that the recipe will work at home for you too! If the developer created the recipe on a gas stove, the cross-tester uses an electric one or vice versa. They also use alternative ingredients mentioned in the ingredient list to make sure the end result is still delicious. And if the cross-tester finds any issues, they’ll work through them until they’re happy with the final results.
The final step is having a registered dietitian take a look at each recipe’s nutrition analysis to make sure it’s accurate. They also add thenutrition and dietary tagsyou see on each recipe page—heart healthy, gluten-free, healthy aging and diabetes-appropriate, to name a few.
It’s a detailed process, but it’s important to us to ensure we’re publishing the best recipes possible for you to enjoy!
Credits
Visuals & Design:Jesse Blanner, Sabrina Tan, Maria Emmighausen and Cassie Basford.
Special Thanks:Penelope Wall; Victoria Seaver, M.S., RD; Alysia Bebel; Anne Treadwell; Dillon Evans; Sadie Schulte; Allison Little; Riley Steffen; and the entire staff ofEatingWell.
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