Cozy up with a bowl of comfort food whenever you need it! This round-up of over 30 Freezer Soups is your guide to warming up from the inside out, hassle-free. Winter is the perfect time to cook big batches of your favorite soups to save for later. And then, when you’re craving a light lunch or a satisfying dinner, these freezer champs are here to save the day.
As soup lovers, it’s a little bit of a bummer to know that not all of our creations can be perfectly preserved in the freezer. Pasta and rice can turn to mush when reheated. A creamy soup with lots of dairy can get very weird because it will separate into liquids and solids when exposed to extreme temps. Starchy vegetables, such as potatoes, can break down and fall apart after thawing.
So, I’ve created this list of soups that freeze very well. Some can go right into the freezer as-is; other recipes require just a tweak or two to make freezer-friendly.
The beauty of freezing soup is that, even for easy recipes that are 45 minutes or less, cooking and freezing that soup now means that later on, you’ll have soup with zero prep. Just thaw, reheat, and go. No chopping onions or measuring out spices. Some days, that’s everything.
For a complete tutorial on preserving your soups in the freezer, check out my guide, How to Freeze Soups.
Chicken/Beef Soups
Meat cuts of all kinds freeze well, including after being cooked into soup. Here’s a selection of omnivore favorites that are worth freezing up for future easy dinners. (Note that there are more meat-focused soups in the last section below.)
White Chicken Chili
One of my favorite quick-and-easy soups, White Chicken Chili, goes even faster when I can just toss a frozen container into the fridge in the morning and then reheat the soup on the stove that evening. So good!
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Mock Turtle Soup
This is a family favorite, crafted by my mom in my youth. It's a unique recipe, for sure. Did you know that Cincinnati — my hometown — is famous for its Mock Turtle Soup? I have old, wrinkly clippings from the cooking section of the local newspaper featuring frequent variations of a popular recipe. My mom added her own touch, plus vague ingredient quantities that I had to decipher in order to bring her soup back to life (like, a "small bottle of ketchup." Lol, okay). This soup is a big-batch-must-have here at Casa SoupAddict.
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Mongolian Beef Soup
One of my favorite take-out inspired soups, Mongolian Beef Soup freezes wonderfully. Note that the recipe advises to keep the rice on the side and let your diner guests spoon it into their soup as they like. Stick to this advice and freeze just the soup base. Cook up some fresh rice when you reheat the soup.
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Turkey White Bean Soup
Beans are not just little health bombs. They also add a hearty texture to a winter soup. Turkey White Bean Soup is layered with savory flavors, including smoked sausage, vegetables, herbs and spices. Freezer-friendly and a great way to use up Thanksgiving leftovers!
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Taco Soup
A lovely and easy-to-the-table, weeknight-friendly dish, Taco Soup is a family favorite, loved by kids and adults alike. This soup freezes beautifully, for busy evenings that call for quick, nourishing comfort food.
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Vegetable & Mushroom Soups
Vegetable soups have a lot going for them and freezability is one of their more potent charms. Make big batches and portion them out into individual servings, if you like, for fast lunches.
Mushroom Barley Soup
A rich and hearty, main-dish-worthy soup, Mushroom Barley Soup is filled with meaty mushrooms, savory vegetables, and hunger-crushing barley. Naturally vegetarian, dairy-free, and vegan, this nourishing, umami-loaded soup also follows the Mediterranean and Blue Zones dietary guidelines. Pearled barley is sturdier than rice, so it freezes well without dissolving to mush.
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Sardinian Longevity Minestrone
Inspired by the soup enjoyed by the centenarians in Sardinia, Italy — one of the famous Blue Zones — Sardinian Longevity Minestrone soup is a nutritious, vegetable-heavy soup that you’ll feel great about serving to your family. Make a big pot to enjoy both now and later. The pasta included in the recipe is fregola, which is toasted and fairly sturdy, and holds up better in the freezer than regular pasta.
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Summer Cabbage Soup Recipe
Preserving the season's best produce is always time well spent, and making a lovely soup with summer-fresh veggies for the freezer is a favorite way to carry forward all of those fantastic flavors. Summer Cabbage Soup freezes very well and is a bright spot in the middle of dark and chilly winter.
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Hearty Vegetable Wild Rice Soup
Vegetables and wild rice is such a lovely combo in soup, and this Hearty Vegetable Wild Rice Soup is so filling, comforting and delicious. Wild rice is actually not rice and does not relentlessly absorb liquids after cooking, so it freezes and thaws very well.
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Summer Minestrone
This soup is a vegetable gardener's pride and joy, where all of the fruits of our summer labors shine in a tasty soup. Like most vegetable soups, this Summer Minestrone freezes very well and brings a nice little summer sunshiny break from the super heavy, creamy, meaty soups of winter.
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Wild Mushroom Miso Soup
Umami is a word that foodies like to toss around, but the thing is, it's true: umami is a flavor bomb, and mushrooms and salty, funky miso are both umami superstars. Wild Mushroom Miso Soup is an easy soup that's perfect for reseting our digestive systems after the heavy foods of the holiday season. Keep some in the freezer for quick, healthy lunches.
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Vegetarian Tortilla Soup
This Vegetarian Tortilla Soup throws a little bit of a curve ball to the usual soup-making process, using tortilla chips instead of traditional flat tortillas to thicken and flavor the soup. Freezer-friendly, the bonus joy of this soup is that it's the perfect canvas to let your toppings imagination run wild.
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Bean & Legume Soups
Bean and other legume soups are famous for their freezability, and below is a collection of my favorites. Beans pack a lot of health benefits and are always in my freezer in the winter, so that I don’t have a good excuse to reach for the chicken nuggets.
BBQ Black Bean Soup
Black bean soups are always a favorite around here, and BBQ Black Bean Soup takes the classic and levels it up with barbecue flavors, including BBQ sauce, chili powder, and bacon. Filling and satisfying and freezes beautifully!
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Red Lentil Masala Soup with Barley
I love a good lentil soup, especially one with layers of flavor in the form of spices. Curry-inspired, this filling Red Lentil Masala Soup includes tomatoes, pearl barley, and mouth-watering spices. It also has a relatively small amount of coconut milk, which I haven't had problems with while reheating. Just be gentle with the heat, and bring it up slowly to medium.
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Cuban Black Bean Soup Recipe
Fall soup season isn't soup season at all until you've made a big hearty batch of bean soup from scratch. Made with flavorful black beans, a smoky ham hock, and Cuban-inspired seasonings, Cuban Black Bean Soup is savory and satisfying. It's the poster child of perfect freezer soups, so make a big batch!
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Mushroom Lentil Adzuki Bean Soup
One of my healthier soups, this one is loaded with umami mushrooms and two kinds of legumes, lentils and the unique little adzuki bean. The indulgent eating around the holidays almost always spurs a health kick at some point, and Mushroom Lentil Adzuki Bean Soup is a great one to have in the freezer for quick, nutritious lunches and light dinners.
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Senate Bean Soup
This is one soup that's worthy of making a big pot just to portion out and freeze. Senate Bean Soup is made with just a few ingredients, but produces a filling and delicious result.
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Sweet and Smoky Sriracha Black Bean Soup
Bean soup is never boring here at Casa SoupAddict. Sriracha Black Bean Soup shows off the versatility of this lovely little bean. Like all bean soups, this one freezes like a champ, and is especially appreciated for work lunches, where a little mood boost is always a good thing.
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Creole Lentil Soup with Andouille Sausage
Another uniquely spiced lentil soup, this time singing the flavors of New Orleans. This soup is perfect for Mardi Gras but I love it all winter long for its deeply savory flavors and hearty bites of zesty sausage. Make some Creole Lentil Soup now to freeze for chilly evenings and then a fresh batch to cap off Fat Tuesday.
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Slow-simmered Red Bean Soup
A thick and hearty bean soup that’s simmered for hours on the stove, Slow-Simmered Red Bean Soup is a lovely weekend project full of deep, savory flavors, including pork and spices. And it's freezer game is on point!
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Pureed Soups
Smooth, pureed soups are an easy way to get around the issues with dairy and other milks after freezing. The dairy components might still separate into liquids and solids upon reheating, making the soup look a little cracked, but you can simply reblend the entire soup to combine everything once again. An immersion blender works great for this purpose.
Sheet Pan Roasted Red Pepper Tomato Soup
A delicious combo of red bell peppers and tomatoes (plus other veggies), roasted on a sheet pan in the oven and then spun into a velvety soup, Sheet Pan Roasted Red Pepper Tomato Soup reaches new flavor heights with an easy, smoky paprika roux. Like the other pureed soups here, if anything separates after reheating, just whir it up again until smooth.
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Panera Autumn Squash Soup
If you're as infatuated with Panera's Autumn Squash Soup as I am, you're going to love this version! This is a blended soup, so although it contains dairy, it should come out of the freezing and reheating process in good shape, because while the dairy will still break, you can just reblend the soup (an immersion blender is handy here) to recombine everything.
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Carrot Turmeric Miso Soup
This gorgeous Carrot Turmeric Miso Soup is not just all looks and no substance. It's chock full of superfoods like turmeric, ginger, garlic, and miso. This healthy bowl of goodness is also freezer friendly: If the coconut milk separates upon reheating, just blend the soup again, and you're good to go.
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Curried Pumpkin and Apple Soup
Gently spiced and brightened with a tart apple, this unique fall soup is perfect for preserving the charms of winter squash soup. If the coconut milk breaks apart during reheating, simply reblend.
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Soups that freeze well after recipe adjustments
Some recipes are so close to being freezable that it’s worth making adjustments to the recipe so that you can. Although many of my recipes actually fall into this category, I’ve picked a few where you have to leave out only one ingredient prior to freezing, and add it in during the reheating process.
Cold-Fighting Couscous Chicken Soup
One of the most popular soups on this blog, the one and only Cold-Fighting Couscous Chicken Soup is more than aptly named. Loaded with health-supporting ingredients, this recipe takes chicken soup goodness to an new level. This soup is great for freezing, especially during the winter when surprise germ invasions can crop up at any time. Freezing success: Hold off adding the pearl couscous until you reheat the soup. It's also fabulous without pasta at all, especially if you have a little tummy upset and you just want straight up chicken soup comfort.
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Italian Wedding Soup
Everyone loves Italian Wedding Soup, and it's a soup worthy of stocking up for quick dinners on busy nights. To freeze, prepare the recipe, leaving out the pasta. When reheating, cook the pasta fresh and add to the soup before serving.
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Thai Ramen Noodle Chicken Soup
This is one of those soups I was referring to in the introduction above: It's not complicated at all, but there is chopping and measuring involved. Straight out of the freezer, there's minimum prep to be done for this Thai Ramen Noodle Chicken Soup. When you freeze the soup, leave out the ramen noodles, and then cook them up separately while the soup reheats and add before serving.
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Southwest Corn Chowder Recipe
If you love fresh, local corn, this zesty Southwest Corn Chowder is definitely worth cooking up and freezing. Prepare the soup as instructed, leaving off the half and half until you reheat the soup. I've found that sometimes, depending on my mood, I don't even need the extra dairy, because the soup's natural thickness hits just right.
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Instant Pot Chicken Tortilla Soup
The Instant Pot makes almost hands-off work of cooking soup, so don't hesitate to use it to jumpstart your cook-and-freeze game. Instant Pot Chicken Tortilla Soup is a prime candidate for inclusion. The cheese sauce is optional in the recipe to begin with, so if you plan to use it, just wait until you reheat the soup and add it just before serving.
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Chicken Enchilada Soup Recipe
Chicken Enchilada Soup is definitely on the list of family favorites, and will make you happy to have such a fun soup on hand for those nights when you're just not feelin' it in the kitchen, but still want to serve something yummy. Freezing success: Prepare the recipe as instructed, leaving out the yogurt. When you reheat the soup, wait until it's brought up to a hot temperature, and then temper the yogurt before adding it to the soup: Place the yogurt in a roomy bowl, and add a ladle or two of the hot soup, stirring quickly and thoroughly until creamy. Then add the tempered yogurt to the soup.
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General Tso’s Chicken Soup
This take-out-inspired soup is unique with a flavor-charged broth that's the star of the show. General Tso's Chicken Soup is also a friend of the freezer: simply leave out the rice until you're ready to reheat and serve.
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Shakshuka Soup Recipe
The base of vegetable-heavy Shakshuka Soup is easy to make in a big batch for future meals, and is freezer-friendly. Simply hold off adding the eggs until the soup has been completely reheated. Quick prep tip: You can save a little time by starting the eggs separately in a large skillet. Just crack them in like you're making fried eggs and when the whites solidify, carefully transfer everything to the soup to finish the yolks (use two spatulas to sort of scoop up the egg, with each spatula coming in together from opposite sides under the egg).
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Sheet Pan Roasted Vegetable Soup with Gnocchi
We all know that oven roasting brings out deep, savory flavors in vegetables, and this soup takes every advantage of that. And it's a homemade soup that's mostly hands-off, which is an extra bonus for chunky vegetable soup lovers. Freezing success: Leave off adding the gnocchi until you reheat the soup. Gnocchi is usually made of mostly potatoes, which could break down and become mush after thawing.
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Autumn Vegetable Soup
This vegetable soup features fall veggies and a yummy cap of crusty bread and cheese. For freezing, simply leave off the top layer of bread and egg until the soup has been thawed and reheated.
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I hope this list has inspired you to try your hand at freezing some soup. You can start small and try freezing leftovers, or dive right in and make a full batch.
Once you do, I think you’ll enjoy the convenience of having homemade ready to heat and serve.
