20 soups you can still enjoy in the springtime

Avocado soup is delicious. It’s creamy and comforting while still light. And because avocado is such a versatile vegetable, it’s easy to use as a base to make all sorts of soup variations. You can add meats, other vegetables, spices, and more to change up your recipe. 

Orzo is an underrated pasta, especially when it comes to soup. It takes on flavor well, provides great texture, and can be paired with just about anything. Orzo is especially tasty with vegetables in a springtime soup. 

Pea soup is the perfect springtime soup. It can be served warm and loaded with extra ingredients, or it can be served chilled and left to be very simple. Whatever route you want to take, you’ll be satisfied. 

If you want a fancier soup in the spring, have some lobster bisque. It’s wonderful for the spring because it still warms you up when the weather isn’t quite as hot as you’d like, but it doesn’t weigh you down as you’re resuming activity after a winter inside. 

Chicken noodle soup can be consumed any time of the year, but it’s nice to alter the flavor depending on the season. In the spring, opt for lemon chicken noodle soup. The lemon brightens the soup and makes for a nice change of pace.  

The trick to a tasty springtime soup is swapping a heavy vegetable in a classic soup for a lighter vegetable. For example, instead of loaded baked potato soup, make loaded cauliflower soup. It has all the loaded ingredients without the heaviness of the potato. 

If you want something healing, have some ginger carrot soup. It’s a pureed soup that will cure a cold you got from the rain or soothe you on a night of some unwelcome April snow.

If you don’t like carrots but still want some ginger in your soup, have some pho. It’s also incredibly healing and soothing; it just doesn’t have any orange ingredients (although you could eat it with carrots if you wanted). 

Any vegetable can be creamed if you have the right tools. Cream of asparagus soup is a simple dish with just a few ingredients. You can keep it simple if you’d like or add some protein or more vegetables to make it a little heartier. 

Many people will have matzo ball soup in the spring thanks to Passover, but you don’t have to celebrate the holiday to enjoy the dish. It’s surprisingly easy to make if it's unavailable at any local eateries. And it’s delicious. 

If you like a creamy soup with a bite, try Elote corn soup. It takes all the best parts of Elote corn and puts them in soup form. If you want a little extra protein, you can add chicken, turkey, or pork. Add some tortilla chips for a little extra crunch. 

Enter your Disney princess era this spring and have some hazelnut soup, just like Rapunzel. It’s a creamy, nutty soup that can be made even heartier with parsnips, turnips, ramps, or radishes. 

If you love tomato soup, you probably are okay with eating the classic version no matter what the weather is doing. But if you want a change of pace for the spring, have a spicy version. You can still eat it with grilled cheese if you need a companion to tame the heat. 

If you’re looking for something lighter than chicken noodle soup but still soothing, try chicken and greens. Throw in whatever greens you have on hand — spinach, kale, arugula — and enjoy. 

You’ve heard of spinach artichoke dip. Now, try spinach artichoke soup. It’s creamy and cheesy, but because of the spinach and artichokes, it’s not too heavy. It’s just delectable. 

There’s never a wrong time to have creamy wild rice soup, but the most right time might just be in the spring. It’s a creamy soup that isn’t particularly heavy, and something about the wild rice just screams springtime. 

Green goddess everything in the spring. Take whatever greens you have on hand, cook them down, and blend them up with either some cream or broth. You can leave it as is or add carbs and protein. 

If you watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as a kid, you might associate cabbage soup with a dilapidated house in an unnamed English town, but it’s not just for families whose fathers just lost their jobs at toothpaste factories. Cabbage soup is a comforting dish that can be made in many ways. You’ll never get bored. 

Gazpacho isn’t particularly tempting to eat in the fall or winter, but when springtime hits, it’s a soup lover’s dream. A cold soup made of fresh vegetables and topped with croutons? Come on. It doesn’t get much better than that. 

Okay, creamy radish soup doesn’t have the most appealing color, but the taste is great. Radishes have a bite worth tasting, but if you think the flavor is too strong, putting the veggies in a cream soup makes it much more palatable.