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10 Healthy Cozy Slow Cooker Soups
Slow cookers are prized for churning out everything from meatballs to mulled wine, but in my opinion, where they excel best is in making seriously great soups. The slow simmer of a slow cooker ensures soups are as full-flavored as they possibly can be. Even better, though, is that slow cooker soups are hands-off. Go about your business and you’ll be rewarded with a healthy pot whenever you’re ready for dinner. Here are 10 great recipes to try.
10 Health-Boosting Soups to Make This Winter
When the weather dips, I find myself immediately adding soup to our weekly meal plan. Until spring hits, a big simmering pot makes a recurring appearance and I never complain. What’s not to like about a warming meal meal that makes it easy to load up on good things like vegetables, beans, and whole grains this time of year.
The Easiest (and Tastiest) Way to Stay Hydrated
Staying hydrated can be a challenge — you know you need to sip, sip, sip all day, but what if you leave your reusable bottle at home, or in all the craziness of the day, you simply forget to drink?
5 Ways to Turn Lentils into a Hearty Plant-Based Meal
Lentils are the littlest member of the legume family. Even if they’re small, they’re mighty, rocking many health benefits. Just 1 cup contains 18 grams protein, 15 grams fiber, and an array of minerals, particularly iron and folate.
What’s Missing from Your Healthy Meals? A Cookbook Author Reveals the Secret
There are roughly a zillion healthy cookbooks hitting the market every day, and it’s part of our job at Clean Plates to sift through them and bring you some of the best.
7 One-Pot Vegetable Dinners for Easier Weeknights
The last—and we mean last—thing you need after tackling your to-do list and making dinner on a typical weekday is a sink full of dishes. We’re right there with you. So we gathered up some favorite easy vegetarian dinners you can make in one vessel, be it baking sheet, skillet, pot, what have you, so you can eat, clean up and get busy relaxing for the rest of the night.
Stay Warm & Cozy with Chicken Lemon Rice Soup
If anyone has ever made chicken soup from scratch for you when you’ve been sick, you know the ultimate love and comfort in that bowl.
How to Marie Kondo Your Freezer
So, when’s the last time you cleaned out your freezer? We mean, really cleaned it out. Was “Uptown Funk” at the top of the charts? Yeah, us too.
A Chef’s Twists on a Fave Late-Summer Dish
Gazpacho—it’s a classic summer treat. Toss a bunch of fresh vegetables in a blender and bam—you have a sophisticated, cool, healthy chilled soup that’s perfect in bowls on its own or served in small cups as the start to a grill-fest.
Kick the Can—Upgrade Your Soup
Stash the can opener and back away from the MSG-laced soups of the past.
Super-Fast Homemade Chicken Soup
We may never know the exact reason why chicken soup heals and soothes—but we know it does. Since you probably don’t have all day to make it from scratch, here’s my recipe that relies on a pressure cooker.
Simple Soup with Carrots, Parsnips, and Scallions
Here’s a soup that’s beautiful in its simplicity—a basic broth brimming with a sweet and springlike combination of tender vegetables.
This Chilled Soup Will Be Your End Of Summer Go-To
Homemade soup is one of our favorite foods any time of year. It may not be top of mind during the sweltering summer months—unless it’s a refreshing chilled soup, of course.
Feel The Beet
This nutrient-packed powerhouse can be turned into soup, fermented, pickled or juice. Beets are a simple way to add more antioxidants to your diet.
10 Winter Soups We Love From Instagram
Step up your winter soup game with these 11 tasty recipe ideas from Instagram.
Souper Bowls: Fast Healthy Soups For Every Season
A decadently tasty and healthy bowl can be made in minutes if you follow these tips.
Creamy Beet With Dill Soup
This simple satisfying soup from beets and onions is packed with flavor and probiotics.
Chunky Zucchini And Dill With Shrimp Soup
Kathryn Bruton’s soup boasts a lot of flavor for the little time and effort it takes to make.
Natural Hangover Helpers
Overdo the holiday “cheers”? Here are healthy remedies to get you feeling better quick
Before you have a greasy breakfast to cure a hangover, check out these good-for-you options that will soothe your headache and tummy troubles in a flash.
Can This Green Give You Super Powers?
Shishito peppers’ sweet heat provides 170% of your daily Vitamin C, 80% of your daily Vitamin A, and 100% of your daily deliciousness quota.
Pumpkin And Sage Soup
By Lauren Salkeld Freshly grated Parmesan makes another great topping for this simple soup.
Cauliflower Soup with Roasted Garlic Oil
Here’s an excellent example of how quick and easy it is to make a warming homemade soup. This cauliflower soup is lusciously creamy even though it’s dairy- free- and it’s finished with a drizzle of always-welcome roasted garlic oil. This recipe is from The Clean Plates Cookbook ($17; Running Press) by Jared Koch with Jill Silverman Hough.
Chunky Corn Chowder
A wonderful way to enjoy summer corn, this is a relatively traditional chowder recipe with one key difference- it uses vitamin-packed sweet potatoes instead of starchy white potatoes. The change is so barely noticeable that I’m hoping it inspires you to make healthy switches in other dishes. This recipe is from The Clean Plates Cookbook ($17; Running Press) by Jared Koch with Jill Silverman Hough.
Gazpacho To Go
These bottled tomato soups taste like summer
Tío Gazpacho makes smooth, zingy bottled gazpachos that are knocking our socks off.
Brothee has created a heady brew of nutrient-dense broths that are good for your, well, bones
We love to drink bone broth for its warm, nourishing benefits. But, admittedly, the taste of bone broth’s…
Curried Carrot and Sweet Potato Soup
Sweet Potatoes, carrots, and spices come together to make this hearty, warming soup. Accompanies a meat dish well, but also great by itself.
Cucumber Soup
From The New Greenmarket Cookbook ($20;Da Capo Lifelong Books) by Gabrielle Langholtz.
Kabocha Soup Recipe
This roasted kabocha soup is the perfect thick, creamy fall soup with a kick of turmeric to help boost metabolism. It can be made in a few simple steps.
Rather than go on a juice cleanse, keep your body nourished with a soup cleanse
We love organic, cold-pressed juice as much as anyone. But juice cleanses? Hmm…
Head to the Greenmarket for one of our favorite veggies this season
Make a cool cucumber soup this summer…
Super Healthy Kelp Stock
This versatile kelp stock is delicious, nutritious, and shockingly easy to prepare. It’s sure to become a kitchen staple!
10-Minute Miso Soup
Award-winning cookbook author Hiroko Shimbo shares her favorite 10-minute miso soup recipe.
Make the soup of your dreams with Brooklyn Bouillon's bases
Got a hankering for homemade soup? Whip it up fast with these organic, locally-sourced soup stocks from Brooklyn Bouillon.
Thanksgiving Sides Series: Start with Soup
This curried carrot and sweet potato soup is healthy and hearty
Clean Plates is delighted to offer our readers a scrumptious series of healthful, delicious and nutritious side dishes for Thanksgiving, ideal for contributing to the holiday table or combining for a luscious, plant-based meal.
Hearty, Comforting and Packed with Nutrients: Favorite Winter Dishes
These NYC restaurants marry comfort and nutrition in some stellar winter dishes
Throughout NYC, chefs are whipping up hearty winter meals that are comforting and nutritious to boot. Here are some of our favorites…
Butternut Squash Soup
This vegan winter soup is flavorful, healthy and heart-warming.
We’re big fans of GreenSquare Tavern in Chelsea (read our review). Here’s chef John Marsh’s recipe for butternut squash soup—perfect for a cold winter day…