45 Cozy Fall Soups & Stews for Chilly Autumn Nights
The best cozy autumn soup recipes! These hearty fall soups, stews, and chili recipes are easy to make and fun to eat.
There’s almost nothing better on a chilly autumn night than a warm bowl of soup or stew.
It’s a whole meal in a bowl, unless of course you’d like some crusty bread for dipping.
Soups and stews are an easy way to serve a healthy dinner, because no one notices that they’re eating lean meat and veggies.
I put together a list of Fall soup and stew recipes, so you have tons of inspiration for cozy, comfort foods to add to your meal plan this season.
There’s a huge variety, so you’ll find something for every taste and occasion.
🍂 And after dinner, you can turn on your favorite show or watch a Fall movie, make an easy Fall dessert, or nestle in under a blanket and create your Fall bucket list.
Okay, let’s dive into these autumn soups and stews!
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Best Fall Soups and Stews
Autumn Wild Rice Soup with Turkey
This Autumn Wild Rice Soup recipe is made with mushrooms, carrots, and leftover turkey or chicken. (You can even use a rotisserie chicken to make it super easy.)
It’s hearty, savory, and will give you all the fall feels.
Easy Stovetop Chili
This healthy, easy stovetop chili recipe is hearty, warming, and insanely delicious.
Packed with flavor and perfect for the entire family, it’s simple to prep, and everything cooks in one big pot on the stove in less than an hour!
Beef and Guinness Stew
There’s nothing quite like a beef and Guinness stew on a cold day!
Tender chunks of beef, onions, carrots and parsnips slowly cooked in a rich, aromatic Guinness gravy. Stovetop, oven, and slow cooker instructions included.
Chicken Pot Pie Soup
The beauty of this Chicken Pot Pie Soup is that you get all the same flavors and texture of a classic chicken pot pie without the added effort of making and assembling an enclosed pie crust or having to add baking time to the recipe.
Turkey Pumpkin Curry Soup with Rice
Keep that pumpkin flavor on the dinner menu by serving up Turkey Pumpkin Curry Soup with Rice - a simple recipe that takes only 20 minutes.
With coconut milk, this rich and creamy soup is quick, comforting and tasty. It’s a terrific way to use leftover turkey as well!
Pasta Spinach Meatball Soup
This easy Meatball Pasta soup is ready to serve quickly and easily with pantry staples and supermarket shortcuts.
It’s super flavorful and family-friendly too!
Loaded Baked Potato Soup
Loaded Potato Soup is simple and easy and ready in just about 30 minutes on the stove top!
This creamy soup is a satisfying dinner that your whole family will love and is totally comforting.
Easy Taco Soup
Make dinner a breeze with this delicious and easy taco soup recipe. You won't find an easier recipe for a hearty, flavorful dinner.
Instant Pot Chicken and Rice Soup
This easy instant pot chicken and rice soup is perfect for chilly fall days.
So easy and quick, with fresh veggies and a splash of lemon, this might be the best chicken and white rice soup you’ll ever make.
Healthy Zuppa Toscana
A healthier version of Olive Garden’s Zuppa Toscana, this soup is warm, comforting, and bursting with flavor.
Loaded with bone broth, Italian sausage, potatoes, kale, and bacon, it’s creamy, super filling, and the perfect family-friendly meal.
Instant Pot White Chicken Chili
This delicious Instant Pot White Chicken Chili is a warm, comforting, and hearty meal during the cooler month.
Made with chicken breast, white kidney beans, green chilies, onion, cream cheese and chicken broth, it has simple ingredients with lots of flavor.
Slow Cooker 15 Bean Soup
Packed with protein and fiber, 15 Bean Soup is so easy to make. Just dump all of the ingredients into the crock pot and let it do its thing.
Crockpot Lamb Stew
This super easy slow cooker lamb stew recipe is perfect for family dinners on cool nights. It might just become one of your favorite fall dinner recipes.
Easy Roasted Pumpkin and Sweet Potato Soup
Blended to perfection with an incredibly creamy and velvety texture, this easy, flavor-packed Roasted Pumpkin and Sweet Potato Soup is warm and filling with a touch of sweetness from the roasted vegetables.
Topped off with garlicky homemade croutons and crispy pan-fried sage, it’s the perfect cozy fall or winter weeknight dinner full of seasonal flavors.
Creamy Tomato Gnocchi Soup
This creamy tomato gnocchi soup is the coziest fall and winter soup to cuddle up with on the couch with a piece of buttered sourdough.
The fire-roasted tomatoes provide a great depth of flavor and the pillowy soft gnocchi melt in your mouth with each bite.
Southern Pinto Beans with Ham Hocks
This Pinto Beans Recipe with Ham Hocks is a true Southern comfort food delicacy!
Dried pinto beans are soaked, then simmered with meaty ham hocks and flavors galore reaching tender thick perfection. Serve with cornbread or over rice for an extra filling meal.
Creamy Slow Cooker White Chicken Chili
This white chicken chili is smooth, creamy and so easy to make. Throw all the ingredients in the pot and with very little effort you can come home to a cozy dinner that is so satisfying.
Italian Sausage Soup with Ravioli
Italian Sausage Soup made with Italian sausage, fresh ravioli pasta, vegetables, and seasonings, is the perfect bowl of comfort food.
Easy Vegetable Beef Stew
Nourishing and comforting, delicious Vegetable Beef Stew is easy-to-make and packed with protein-rich beef, various vegetables, and flavorful seasonings.
It’s a convenient and budget-friendly option for a cozy dinner at home.
Crockpot Cheesy Potato Soup
This cheesy crockpot potato soup recipe is delicious! Packed full of tender potatoes, ham and vegetables all mixed into a creamy base, it's perfect for a cold night or rainy day.
Pork Green Chili
With tender chunks of pork, slightly spicy tomato and chile-studded sauce, this Colorado Pork Green Chili Recipe is a classic, yet simple to make chili recipe.
It’s perfect on its own, or made extra hearty when poured over burritos, eggs, grilled cheese, roasted potatoes, or rice.
Creamy Tortellini Soup
Made with savory veggies, fresh cheese tortellini, and fall-apart tender chicken in a warming, flavorful, and irresistibly creamy broth, this Creamy Tortellini Soup is the ultimate comfort food.
Stovetop and Instant Pot instructions included.
Curried Butternut Squash Soup
Looking for ways to jazz up butternut squash? How about adding curry!
Add some rustic bread, and you have a flavorful fall soup ready to serve company or enjoy on your own.
Instant Pot Chicken Stew
Instant pot chicken stew is a complete meal made with juicy chicken thighs and bursting with hearty vegetables like sweet potatoes, carrots, and celery in every spoonful.
You’ll love that it’s super budget-friendly as well.
Chipotle Pumpkin Chili
This easy chipotle pumpkin chili recipe is such a fun twist on traditional chili.
Make it with crumbled tempeh or meatless crumbles for a vegan/vegetarian recipe, or use ground turkey.
Either way it’s delicious and the perfect chili recipe for fall!
Sweet Potato Sausage Soup
Made with simple ingredients like seasonal sweet potatoes, ground sausage, and hearty veggies, the rich savory broth it creates is so delicious and satisfying.
Chicken Stew with Mushrooms and Onions
A chilly autumn day calls for a classic, satisfying and hearty stew like this French-inspired chicken version. Serve it on its own or over egg noodles or rice.
Broccoli Cheddar Soup
This broccoli cheddar soup is cozy, creamy, and cheesy—all without the dairy!
Potatoes, cashews, and nutritional yeast give this gluten-free and dairy-free soup a delicious flavor and texture.
Ready in just 40 minutes, the whole family is sure to love this easy weeknight soup.
Spicy Roasted Tomato White Bean Stew
Roasted Tomato White Bean Stew is spicy, hearty, and comforting. It's made with healthy pantry ingredients and is great for meal prep and freezing.
Minestrone Soup
Minestrone soup is pure comfort in a bowl. A great way to use leftover vegetables hanging around, this cozy soup is super easy to whip up in just 1 hour.
It is naturally vegetarian, and easily dairy-free or vegan.
Chunky Butternut Squash Sausage Soup
This chunky Butternut Squash Sausage Soup recipe is hearty, savory, and full of fall flavor.
It's made with kale and Italian chicken sausages, and the savory broth is perfect for dipping warm, crusty bread.
Split Pea & Sweet Potato Stew
Thick and rich, warm and comforting - there’s no better meal than a scrumptious bowl of soup to warm your soul.
The simple sweet potatoes and bright orange carrots give this recipe a depth of color and a hint of sweetness, while the pleasant little split peas and aromatic alliums provide a filling and full-flavored punch.
Spicy Sweet Potato Corn Chowder
This Spicy Sweet Potato Corn Chowder is a healthier, dairy-free twist on the classic dairy-rich dish. It's loaded with veggies, perfectly spiced, and so incredibly creamy.
Chicken Mulligatawny Soup
Authentic Pakistani Chicken Mulligatawny Soup is a delicious curried soup first created during the time of the British Raj.
Now a traditional part of South Asian cuisine, the soup is a velvety smooth concoction made with lentils, chicken stock and coconut milk.
It’s full bodied and often enjoyed with a crusty loaf of french bread.
Romanian Peas and Chicken Stew
Romanian peas and chicken stew recipe is very easy to make, being ready in just over an hour. It requires a minimum effort, and the few ingredients are very budget-friendly.
Coconut Curry Chicken Soup
This delicious Coconut Curry Chicken Soup is a Thai inspired creamy coconut curry soup loaded with chunks of chicken, veggies and rice.
It has bold and bright flavors, and is cozy and comforting for a cold day.
Stuffed Pepper Soup
Classic stuffed peppers are the ultimate comfort food, especially on chilly nights after a great harvest in the garden.
This stuffed pepper soup recipe has all the elements you love about stuffed peppers wrapped up in a cozy soup.
Instant Pot Chicken & Dumplings
Nothing says Fall quite like this Instant Pot Chicken & Dumplings! It's a quick and easy dinner for those busy weeknights and a guaranteed crowd pleaser.
Copycat Crockpot Trader Joe’s Vegetarian Harvest Chili
Obsessed with Trader Joe’s Harvest Chili like the rest of us? And looking to whip up a delicious family dinner on a budget?
Make your own easy copycat crockpot Trader Joe’s harvest chili.
Easy Creamy Pumpkin Soup
This simple pumpkin soup because it’s SUCH an easy recipe! It calls for minimal ingredients, including canned pumpkin.
A soup this easy and tasty is guaranteed to become your new favorite fall soup.
White Bean and Kale Soup
Flavor-packed White Bean and Kale Soup is the epitome of healthy comfort food. It’s full of greens, nutritious legumes, and vegetables like onion, celery and butternut squash.
Plus, this recipe is hearty and filling, with a protein boost that comes from lean ground beef.
Vegetarian Tortilla Soup
This easy vegetarian tortilla soup will quickly become one of your all-time favorites! It is smoky, warming, and packed with so much flavor.
With a variety of toppings to fully customize your bowl.
Instant Pot Navy Bean Soup
Instant Pot Navy Bean Soup is a wonderful comfort food, full of veggies and healthy fiber. Use your Instant Pot to make the soup fast instead of letting it simmer all day.
Roasted Acorn Squash Soup
Roasted acorn squash soup is the perfect soup for fall and the holidays.
Warm and comforting, this velvety soup is as healthy as it is comforting, making it a perfect choice for dinner any night of the week.
Carrot and Ginger Soup (Instant Pot)
This nutrient packed soup will help even your pickiest eaters get more vegetables in their body.
Ready in less than 30 minutes, this soup is perfect for weeknight dinners or healthy lunch meal prep.
Ready to try some of these cozy Fall soup and stew recipes?
I hope this list of cozy autumn soup recipes has given you lots of inspiration for comforting dishes to make this Fall.
Not only are they great for dinner, but they make excellent meal prep for lunches, and freeze well for future dinners.
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