10 Cozy Fall Soup Recipes Perfect for September's First Cool Days

These fall soups, loaded with autumn ingredients, will help usher in the chillier months.

By Robin Shreeves
Published September 14, 2025
Overhead view of Baked Potato Soup

Serious Eats / Amanda Suarez

It’s hard for me to let go of summer, but knowing that fall’s chill brings plenty of possibilities for comforting, cozy, and satisfying soups helps a little bit. There's nothing I look forward to more than heading to the farmers market on a crisp Saturday morning to source ingredients. The aroma of fall ingredients simmering on the stove also takes a bit of the sting out of the changing of the season. These 10 soups are ideal for fall and are chock full of seasonal vegetables available at farmers markets and grocery stores. Just add a crusty loaf of bread for dipping and soaking up every drop in the bowl, and you're good to go.

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  • Roasted Sweet Potato Soup

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    Serious Eats / Vicky Wasik

    Purée roasted sweet potatoes, onions, garlic, carrots, and a splash of orange juice with chicken or vegetable stock to create a flavorful, creamy soup that screams fall. Top each bowl with a mixture of pistachio, orange zest, scallions, mint, and olive oil to add some gremolata-like flair.

  • Classic Butternut Squash Soup Recipe

    A bowl of butternut squash soup on a dish towel. There is a metal spoon in the bowl.

    Serious Eats / Julia Estrada

    This version of the popular seasonal soup pulls no punches—it just has roasted squash, carrots, and some aromatics, all puréed with stock. Topping the soup with spiced whipped cream and a sprinkling of brown butter frizzled sage takes this classic to the next level.

  • Miso-Squash Soup With Sesame-Ginger Apples Recipe

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    Serious Eats / Vicky Wasik

    Take inspiration from kabocha no nimono, a Japanese appetizer, which comes together by poaching squash in a light dashi-based broth to highlight the squash’s nutty, savory flavors. Enhance that flavor with bonito flakes, miso, apples, scallions, and more, which all get the blender treatment. Sprinkle on some shichimi togarashi for an extra boost of spice and citrus for a soup that might turn your idea of squash soup on its head.

  • Creamy Spiced Parsnip Soup Recipe

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    Serious Eats / Daniel Gritzer

    Do not walk by those sweet, earthy parsnips at the market. Grab them and turn them into creamy soup layered with complementary and contrasting flavors. The soup blends onion, leeks, celery, coriander, ginger, garlic, and jalapeño, and it's topped with dollops of spiced whipped cream and a sprinkle of cayenne.

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  • Quick and Easy Creamy Mushroom Soup Recipe

    An orange-brown ceramic bowl holding creamy mushroom soup topped with chopped herbs and drizzled olive oil.

    Serious Eats / Diana Chistruga

    This soup brings together the best of fall in a bowl, plus it's delicious and simple to make. Use any mushrooms—even ones past their prime—and brown them in butter to bring toasty, rich notes to the soup. Deglaze the pan with sherry, which has incredible depth of flavor, add milk and herbs, then purée.

  • Classic Creamy Carrot Soup Recipe

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    Serious Eats / Debbie Wee

    Carrots, carrots, and more carrots make up this rich, silky soup. Preparing the carrots a few ways—such as roasted, raw, and juiced—creates a very carroty, creamy soup that gets enhanced even more with aromatics. Swirl in a lemon-herb yogurt just before serving for the perfect finishing touch.

  • Caldo Verde (Portuguese Potato and Kale Soup With Sausage) Recipe

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    Serious Eats / Eric Kleinberg

    Not all fall soups need to be puréed, and this potato and kale soup from northern Portugal doesn't even require a blender. This vegetable and sausage soup is straightforward to whip up, and it’s likely to end up on regular rotation in your home this fall and right through the winter.

  • Roasted Cauliflower Soup

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    Serious Eats / Amanda Suarez

    For this recipe, cauliflower is roasted until it's sweet and nutty, then combined with garlic, onion, celery, and sage, plus heavy cream. A curry cream topper is the perfect finish to this dish.

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  • Loaded Baked Potato Soup

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    Serious Eats / Amanda Suarez

    Microwave potatoes, peel, then use a ricer (not a blender or the soup will get a gluey texture) to create a velvety base for this hearty soup made with whole milk. Top it with cheese, chives, and cheddar, plus crushed potato chips, a crunchy surprise that makes this hearty soup even more satisfying.

  • Brown Butter-Sunchoke Soup with Brussels Sprouts and Bacon

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    Serious Eats / J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

    Brussels sprouts and bacon are a match made in heaven, and adding them as a topper to soup with a base of sunchokes simmered in brown butter, with some leeks, onion, sage, and garlic, then puréed, is a brilliant move. You’re not going to want to get to winter without having made this soup at least once.

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