Meatless meals are traditional during Lent and soups make excellent meatless dishes. This collection features 40 meatless Lenten soup ideas. The soups range from simple favorites like tomato soup and lentil soup to traditional soups from around the world.
Why Eat Soup during Lent?
The idea of Lent is a time of penance and sacrifice when you embracing self discipline and simplicity. And soups are one of the simplest and easiest to make of all meals.
Soups are also commonly associated with religious monasteries, where they are regularly served for lunch or dinner. Many churches of all different denominations host soup and bread potluck lunches or dinners during Lent to encourage fellowship.
Soups are wonderful for sharing with friends and family. They are easy to make, easy to transport and easy to stretch to serve a few more people. Just throw some extra carrots or potatoes along with some water into the pot and your soup can feed a crowd.
Lenten Meal Variety
If you aren’t used to eating meatless dinners it can be easy to get into a rut with meatless Lenten meals. When I was growing up my mom had two meals she made for dinner on Fridays in Lent – Tuna Sandwiches or Fish Sticks.
She is allergic to shellfish, so she didn’t like to cook with any seafood, and my Dad didn’t appreciate vegetarian meals. So we ate Tuna or Fish Sticks, which were ok, but I try to be a little more creative when feeding my family!
With this list of soups you should find some amazing inspiration for soup dinners. There are traditional favorites, like lentil soup and minestrone soup, along with others inspired by cultures all over the world.
Some of these soups are cooked in the slow cooker, some on the stove top and some in a pressure cooker like an Instant Pot. Whatever your cooking ability you can find one that will work for you.
Many of these soups can be ready in less than 30 minutes too! Add a crusty loaf of bread and dinner will be ready in no time at all.
While soup is simple it is doesn’t have to be boring. Add some variety and culinary excitement to your Lenten journey this year.
Meatless Soups for Lent
This creamy Irish Potato Soup is made from potatoes mixed with cabbage for an Irish inspired meatless soup for Lent. This soup is perfect for serving on St. Patrick's Day!
This Instant Pot Potato Leek Soup is rich, creamy and satisfying! It’s perfect for weeknights and it will be on your table in no time!
This Easy Crockpot Potato Soup Recipe is the ultimate comfort food! You can throw it together in a few minutes, and it's so creamy and delicious!
Vatapa is a Brazilian soup that is traditionally made with shrimp or fish. This recipe uses mussels which are cooked in a broth made from coconut milk and beer. This makes for a rich broth with a distinctive flavor.
Just a smoked haddock chowder with a funny Scottish name, Cullen Skink is a delightful soup and perfect for Lent.
Creamy coconut milk flavors this Thai inspired shrimp soup. The soup combines shrimp with cabbage and green curry paste for a tasty seafood dish that is an easy 30 minute dinner.
This Instant Pot Fish Stew is a perfect way to incorporate more fish into your diet! And it only takes 20 minutes to make start to finish in your pressure cooker (but you can make it on your stovetop or slow cooker too!).
Full of vegetables and easily customized for seasoning, this Lentil Soup is a great dish for any meatless meal. Instructions for making it in a crockpot or on the stove.
Greek Lentil soup is traditionally eaten during Lent but delicious any time of the year!
This easy and healthy Red Lentil Spinach Soup is a hearty and delicious vegetarian meal that's ready in 30 minutes!
Adzuki beans are not just for sweet Asian-inspired treats! Instant Pot Adzuki Bean Soup with Miso, Winter Squash, and Kale combines nutrient-rich adzuki beans with a Japanese-style miso broth and hearty fiber-rich vegetables in a soul-warming vegan and gluten free soup.
This simple vegetarian soup is packed with wild rice, white beans, tomatoes, onions, carrots, and kale. It is both hearty and light, homey and filling without weighing you down.
Slow Cooker Black Bean Tortilla Soup is a hearty and delicious vegetarian soup made in the crockpot using canned goods and fresh ingredients.
This Spicy Slow cooker Bean Soup is loaded with warming spices, black-eyed beans and sweetcorn, all in a base of vegetable stock, to give you a comforting meal that your whole family will love.
This hearty soup combines zucchini with tomatoes and cheese tortellini for a quick and easy weeknight meatless soup.
African peanut stew is a vegan & gluten-free one pot meal. This recipe includes chickpeas for an extra punch of protein. Make a big pot of stew on Sunday for easy meals throughout the week. The flavors only get better with time
A rustic, comforting dish using paprika, soy sauce, and sour cream for an earthy, simple mushroom soup recipe you'll love!
This Aigo Bouido, or garlic soup, is a Julia Child classic. While it is so simple, it is restorative and so comforting.
This authentic vegetarian Chinese vegetable soup is a light clear soup with a simple onion broth. Tender cabbage and scallions are added at the end. Tofu perfectly balances this soup. Enjoy a small bowl as an appetizer or serve large bowls of this delicate soup with some dumplings for a complete meal.
It’s quick, easy, and super flavorful! The perfect balance of noodles, veggies, and broth. Top it off with as much hot sauce as you can handle. It’s a 30 minute meal you’ll crave!
Thai Coconut Soup is a flavorful, creamy yet tangy soup made with lemongrass, coconut milk, broth, ginger, and lime juice. Add vegetables like broccoli, carrots, and zucchini for a light and refreshing meal! The best part – this recipe takes less than 30 minutes to make!
Soupe au Pistou is a classic vegetarian dish from the south of France featuring the best vegetables of the season in a simple vegetable broth seasoned with Pistou, a close relative of pesto!
The Slow Cooker Minestrone is so delicious! Every bite is filled with vegetables, beans and pasta in this one pot meal. Hearty and filling, it’s a classic Italian Soup!
This Minestrone Soup is a nutritious vegetable soup with fresh veggies, light tomato broth, Italian seasoning, and short cut pasta. It has classic flavors of an Italian Minestrone for its relatively short cooking time. It’s naturally vegan, family-friendly, and can be made in the Instant Pot or on the stove!
This hearty vegan minestrone soup is packed with seasonal vegetables, beans, lentils and whole grains. Perfect comforting vegan winter soup full of flavor and nutrients!
This chickpea and shiitake mushroom soup is hearty and filling, entirely plant-based, oil free, kid friendly (my toddler eats every last spoonful!), and better yet, it can be made both in the Instant Pot or on the stove.
This creamy (dairy free) vegetable rice soup, is loaded with veggies and hearty rice...easy to prepare and so delicious!
This smooth and creamy, vegan, gluten-free & whole30 friendly Turmeric & Coconut Roasted Butternut Squash Bisque is an antioxidant packed, anti-inflammatory one-pot-wonder the whole family will love.
Keep things light and fresh this Lent with Zucchini & Leek Soup. Filled with vegetables, you won't miss meat!
A satisfyingly creamy and earthy cauliflower and walnut soup topped with smoky, crispy crumbs.
This recipe for Creamy Asparagus Soup is the best use of fresh asparagus! Silky smooth, rich, and tangy, it is absolutely wonderful and so easy to make!
A Low Carb Cauliflower Curry Soup that can be prepared in 30 minutes and makes for a perfect, healthy weeknight dinner. It’s also vegan, vegetarian, paleo, Whole30, dairy-free, and gluten-free. Perfect for Lent!
This delicious roasted carrot soup recipe is so easy to make. It has a fun bright color and an awesome taste to go with it. Perfect for cold winter nights or work lunch.
This easy broccoli cheddar soup is thick, creamy, cheesy and loaded with flavors. It’s better-than-panera-bread-soup.
Creamy Mushroom Thyme & Blue Cheese Soup is pure comfort food in a bowl. Ladle into large bowls as a stand-alone supper.
Pumpkin Curry Soup is the cozy meal you’re craving! Packed with flavor, and loaded with potatoes and garbanzos, it’s a complete meal in a bowl!
Split Pea Soup is power-packed wholesome vegetarian dinner to feed a hungry crowd in about 30 minutes! Each tasty bowl is plant-based protein rich and can easily be made dairy free + vegan.
Roasted red pepper and tomato soup is easy, creamy, and perfect for a vegetarian weeknight dinner or for company. Great with fried croutons, slices of crusty bread, or grilled cheese.
This homemade Simple Tomato Soup is delicious, easy to make and so flavorful! Highly recommend serving with toasted baguette!
This soup combines traditional Mexican flavors like tomatoes, hominy, and chiles, and adds in bite sized corn dumplings for a soup that is rich and filling without any meat.
Meatless Lenten Soup
This potato soup is a an Irish inspired Lenten soup!
Ingredients
- 2 potatoes
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 1/2 cup vegetable broth
- 1 cup water
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion
- 4 cups cabbage, about 1/4 of a cabbage
- 1/2 teaspoon thyme
- 1/2 cup cream
Instructions
- Peel and dice the potatoes. Add to a sauce pan along with salt, pepper, vegetable broth and water.
- Bring the pan to a boil and cook for 10-15 minutes until potatoes are tender.
- While the potatoes cook dice the onions and thinly slice the cabbage.
- When the potatoes are done pour the potato mixture into a blender and set aside for a little while to cool.
- Turn the heat on the sauce pan down to medium low and add the olive oil.
- Saute the onions for 2-3 minutes, then add the cabbage and thyme, and cook for 10 minutes.
- Turn the blender on and blend the potato mixture until smooth. An immersion blender also works for blending it.
- Return the potato mixture to the sauce pan and mix with the cabbage.
- Add the cream and heat on low heat for 5 minutes. Don't let it boil.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
4Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 264Total Fat: 14gSaturated Fat: 7gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 34mgSodium: 547mgCarbohydrates: 31gFiber: 5gSugar: 8gProtein: 6g
Nutrition facts are estimates.
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What a wonderful resource for meat free soups, especially as we head into the Lenten season! Thanks for including my Cullen Skink recipe!
I’m really new to Lent having left the Baptist denomination for Episcopalian. I’m excited to have some new and interesting options! Thanks for including my adzuki bean soup!
What a great collection of soups! These should keep me warm and fed through Lent and beyond.