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Last Modified: December 6, 2023
Six Warm Soups for a Winter’s Day
From traditional wild rice soups to a moose brisket base, pumpkin leftovers, a minty taste and more, here are six recipes for hearty, delicious and warm soups for a cold day.
By Tsering Asha
Best for Beginners
Chicken and Mushroom Wild Rice Soup
Writer Natalie Findlay describes the ease of making soup as a mostly hands-off process, where you let your base flavours, herbs and spices and other ingredients “mingle with each other until the flavours come together and you have a home run!”
Best for Garlic Lovers
Fall soup recipe: Four heads of garlic soup from the ‘Craving Vegan’ cookbook
Eat North selected this recipe, from Craving Vegan: 101 Recipes to Satisfy Your Appetite the Plant-Based Way by Sam Turnbull, which yields eight servings of glorious, garlicky goodness, as a suggested soup for the fall months.
Best for a Wild Game Taste
This twist on Boeuf Bourguignon created by Savour Calgary contributor Karen Ralph substitutes traditional beef for a moose brisket atop Spaetzle (egg noodles).
Best Vegan or Gluten-Free
Squash Soup with Crispy Eggplant and Pan-Seared Halloumi
With staple squash soup attributes like coconut milk and a creamy, blended texture, this recipe also has a punch of flavour and texture with the addition of crispy eggplant and halloumi.
Best Under 20 Minutes
You can whip this minty soup up in a total of 15 minutes (with five minutes of prep and 10 minutes of cooking). One serving has 258 calories, 14 grams of protein, six grams of fat and 40 grams of carbohydrates.
Best for Leftovers
Recipe: Southwest Pumpkin Soup
Rylan Krause, executive chef at Ernest’s Dining Room at NAIT, says this recipe is a great way to put leftover pumpkin from Thanksgiving and Halloween to good use. This soup also has a sweetness to it, thanks to Krause pairing the pumpkin with carrots and yams.
