Soup/Stew

With leeks, fennel, sugar snap peas, and English peas, this soup is perfect for ushering in spring.

This dish is a perfect choice for those blustery but bright early spring days: It's comforting from the simple-but-flavorful broth and bright from the crunchy fresh topping.

This recipe serves eight people generously (with two balls each) but could easily stretch to serve 16 smaller appetizer-sized portions.

Exactly the kind of hearty-but-not-too-hearty soup you want on a rainy spring day.

A straight-down-the-middle, nostalgic-tasting tomato soup with long-cooked flavor and a short cook time.

Onions, garlic, oil, wine, and salt are all it takes to make a rich vegan broth that still evokes the classic version.

This comforting, fried garlic-topped chicken soup tastes like it took hours to make but comes together in a flash.

You don’t need a tagine, a conical earthenware pot typically from Morocco, to make this warming, fragrant, tender lamb stew.

This (vegetarian!) Italian classic is about as comforting as it gets, packed with hearty greens, meaty beans, and plenty of rich olive oil and umami-packed Parm.

You can call it beef bourguignon if you want to sound fancy—nobody has to know how much easier it is than the French classic.

The key to a soup with fully developed savory flavor starts with the soffritto—a mix of slowly cooked aromatic vegetables.

This is the hearty, rustic, and deeply warming comfort food you'll be craving on all snowy days.

If you've always thought you needed hours to make a luxuriously silky puréed vegetable soup, well, this recipe is here to say you don't! 

This black bean soup is seasoned with a heavy hand. If you are salt- or spice-averse, decrease the amount of salt to 1½ tsp. and use 1 chipotle chile with 1 tsp. adobo sauce instead.

This Polish hunter’s stew features kielbasa, smoky bacon, melty cabbage, and lots of delicious broth that can be sopped up with bread.

Molokhia, a braised chicken and greens dish popular in Lebanon and Egypt, inspired this riff on chicken soup.

This recipe takes all the right shortcuts and none of the wrong ones.

Split pea soup is a lot like your favorite pair of slippers—it might not look like much, but boy does it make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

This back-pocket broth is hardly even a recipe, but it's the most soothing soup we can imagine for sick days, cold nights, and any other time you need a little extra comfort. 

Instead of hours in the oven, this classic French braise only needs 15 minutes in the Instant Pot.