Soup
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Vichyssoise
This is a simple take on a classic cold soup that is as delicious to eat as it is to say: Vishi-swazz! It is dead easy to make as well. Just sauté potatoes with some chopped leeks, then simmer them all with stock until tender. Send the mixture through a food processor or blender, let cool, then chill in the refrigerator until ready to serve. Garnish with chopped chives.
Passatelli
Bread-And-Cheese Soup
Bright Green Leek Soup
A creamy soup doesn’t have to mean lots of cream. Puréed leeks in this soup provide body as well as flavor, and a handful of rice helps give it a smooth consistency. For a brilliant green taste and color, let the soup cool completely before blending in the spinach. Take the time to strain through a fine-meshed sieve for the best texture.
Mushroom Soup
If the word “mushroom” conjures for you white buttons in little supermarket tubs, you’re not alone. But there is a big world of mushrooms out there, and you don’t have to be a forager to live in it. Wild mushrooms can be found in spring, summer and fall, but farmed mushrooms, grown mostly in the dark, are always around and a little easier to find than the ones hiding in the woods. So are dried mushrooms, which may be domesticated or truly wild and which are among the most flavorful ingredients you can keep in your pantry. This lovely soup is made with a combination of dried and fresh. It's delightfully simple – it comes together in about a half hour – which allows the complex flavors of the mushrooms to really shine through.
Cucumber Mint Soup
Pureed Red Pepper and Potato Soup
This is a beautiful soup with a deep, rich flavor to match the color. Make sure to strain it after you puree it, a quick step that absolves you of the longer step of peeling the peppers.
Cold Chickpea-Tahini Soup
Chickpeas have an irresistibly robust and nutty flavor, and a texture that can run from crunchy to tender. Dried chickpeas take longer to cook than other beans (two hours is a likely cooking time); use enough water, and the process is stress-free. One major benefit to cooking chickpeas yourself — aside from the superior flavor and texture — is that the water you cook them in becomes particularly rich and flavorful by the time they’re done. Save it for soups like the cold one here, which is a refreshing riff on hummus.
Vegetarian Apple-Parsnip Soup
Pureed Carrot Soup
This rice-thickened French classic, known as Potage de Crécy, is simple and comforting. You can garnish it with any number of chopped fresh herbs, as well as with croutons.
Puréed Winter Squash Soup With Ginger
One of the most comforting dishes you can make with winter squash is a puréed soup. I use rice to thicken this one, but you could also use a potato, or not add additional starch at all, as the squash itself has a lot of body. To enhance the flavor, this one calls for ginger, with a little lime juice and a swirl of yogurt added before serving.
Mushroom Soup (Soupe Aux Champignons)
Chestnut-Apple Soup With Calvados Cream
Honeycrisp Apple and Parsnip Soup
Here's a creamy, savory and sweet soup that perfectly captures the flavors of fall. Amy Lawrence, and her husband, Justin Fox Burks, the authors of the Chubby Vegetarian blog, brought it to The Times in 2012.
Peach Buttermilk Soup
I like to eat this creamy soup for breakfast. It is almost like a lassi, the popular Indian milkshake-like drink. Make sure your peaches are ripe and juicy.
Potato and Chouriço Soup With Crunchy Kale
Green Tomato Soup With Bacon and Brioche Croutons
Lettuce Soup With Cucumber Croutons
Soup is the most versatile of dishes. When it is rough-chunked, thick and hearty, it is a homey supper; when it is smooth and delicate like the lettuce soup here, it is the perfect elegant starter. It also happens to be a wonderful way of using up any stray lettuces in your fridge. You do not want to use anything that is unpalatable, but I often start the week planning to eat a lot of salad and then end it having not lived up to my intentions. This recipe is the perfect way of atoning for that. This time of year I especially prefer this soup chilled, which makes life much easier because you can cook it in advance. If cold soup is not your thing, do not panic; it is just as good served at room temperature. Either way, this soup is taken up a few notches by being studded, by some cucumber croutons: small, jade cubes cut like toasted-bread dice, only so much more elegant.
Puréed Broccoli and Celery Soup
Celery adds a new dimension to the flavor of this soup and harmonizes with the broccoli. When you cook broccoli for more than 8 to 10 minutes the color fades, so I add a little spinach at the end of cooking to brighten up the color.
Moroccan Fava Bean and Vegetable Soup
When I am planning a Passover menu I look to the Sephardic traditions of the Mediterranean. The Sephardim were the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula; they had a rich culture and lived in harmony with Christians and Muslims until the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions at the end of the 15th century, when all non-Christians were expelled from Spain and Portugal. The Sephardim were welcomed in Turkey, and many went to Greece, North Africa and the Middle East as well. Throughout the Mediterranean, springtime is the season for spinach and other greens, artichokes and fava beans, and these vegetables make delicious appearances at Passover meals. This dish is inspired by the fresh fava bean soup that Rivka Levy-Mellul, author of “La Cuisine Juive Marocaine,” remembers as the first course of her childhood Seders in Morocco. The authentic dish is a substantial soup made with quite a lot of meat, but I’ve made a vegetarian version. I expected the fava beans to color this soup a pale green, but the other vegetables — the carrots, leeks, turnips and onion — and especially the turmeric contribute just as much, and the color of the soup is more of a burnt orange.
Creamy Wild Mushroom and Parsnip Soup
Plum and Red Wine Soup
You could also call this ruby-colored, jam-like soup a compote. Look for plums with deep red flesh.
Slim Vichyssoise
Cucumber Soup
The guests are hungry, and dinner's not yet on the table. You could set out a tray of cheese and crackers. But if surprise and delight drive your menu choices (keeping an eye, all the while, on simplicity and efficiency), there are other options, like this velvety cucumber soup.