These crockpot soup recipes are designed for the slow cooker. Many of these soups are a full meal, but only take about fifteen minutes for prep. You’ll also find these recipes helpful with batch cooking.
The recipes are surprisingly easy to make, even though some are from scratch. You chop up some veggies and meat, throw all the ingredients in to the slow cooker, and let it do the rest of the work.
In fact, you can prep these soups in the morning, set the timer on your crockpot, and let it cook while you do other things. And because it takes a while, all the ingredients come out tender and delicious.
Slow-Cooker Soup Recipes
If there's anything better than a loaded baked potato, it might be cheesy potato soup with bacon, which is almost the same thing.
This recipe has Greek yogurt to give it a thick creamy base. Just add potatoes, bacon, celery stalks, chopped onion, and some cheese to make something that takes a whole lot like a loaded baked potato in a bowl.
This Vegetarian tortellini soup recipe uses frozen vegetables to save you a whole lot of time. Because of the slow cooker method, it comes out tasting as good as if you used fresh.
Kidney beans make it fililng and the tortellini makes it delicious. It's truly a one dish meatless meal. You can serve it with just bread.
This is a pretty traditional version of French onion soup that's customized for the crockpot. It's a very good way to make it, taking about sixteen hours to cook, but you're only looking at about 20 minutes of prep time.
This recipe is creamy, easy, satisfying, and full of that delicious mushroom flavor. Made with three different kinds of mushrooms, veggies, barley, and broth, this easy pleaser is comfort food at its finest.
Fennel as a special flavor to split pea soup. Cooking it in the slow cooker makes it very easy to prepare.
This recipe just has a few ingredients, and one of them is vegetable broth. So this one is actually suitable for vegans.
This recipe is gluten-free dairy, free, and Paleo. The ingredients include Trader Joe's cauliflower gnocchi, some vegetables, shredded chicken, and dairy free, cashew cream.
You make the cashew cream yourself with a high speed blender, and this is still a really easy recipe that doesn't take up much time from you.
Ham and bean soup is an old school comfort food recipe. It's also a great way to use up leftover ham.
This recipe uses Great Northern beans and some wonderful seasonings. There are plenty of beans you can substitute if you don't have Great Northern.
This turns French onion soup into a whole meal, including meat. It's great as a one-dish meal and perfect for chilly evenings.
It uses breakfast sausage, but if you don't love that, you could probably use Italian sausage. Or even some kind of links like kielbasa.
This slow cooker Manhattan clam chowder is hearty and full of chunky bites of vegetables and clams. It's almost a stew, and definitely works as a full meal. The base is savory tomato.
Works well as a batch cooking meal.
Slow cooker red split lentil dal soup is tasty, easy, budget-friendly, and good for you. It's got the flavors of a home-cooked curry meal, but doesn't take nearly as much time.
This recipe takes all the ingredients of a stuffed bell pepper and turns them into a soup. It's easy to make and full of flavor.
It's got chicken, corn, black beans, onion, garlic, tomatoes and more. The combination gives you a taste that's both sweet and spicy! Top it with one or all of tortilla strips, chunks of avocado, cilantroa, dollop of sour cream or green onions.
Chicken meets fresh vegetables and beans, plus a selection of taco seasonings. This recipe is quick and easy, and it stores well in the freezer. Great for batch cooking.
Serve it with corn chips or cornbread, and you've got a one dish meal.
This chicken tortilla soup recipe will become a family favorite. It's got shredded chicken breast with beans, corns, chilies and spices in a seasoned broth. You can top it with tortilla strips and cheese.
This is a recipe for creamy white chicken chili ithat could become a weeknight go-to meal for you. It's got a little spice, but not too much, and it's a whole meal in and of itself.
Which is not to say you can't serve it with cornbread or dinner rolls.
This is a thick hearty Italian soup. It's got a tomato base with beef, pasta, garbanzo beans, kidney beans, tomatoes, delicious seasonings and parmesan rind. If you've never had this one, you should try it.
This soup tastes decadent like chicken paramesan, but it's designed to be relatively healthy and quick to make.
And you do not need to brown the chicken before you put it in the slow cooker. You add raw chicken and the crockpot cooks it completely.
This one could become a family favorite. It’s healthy, comforting and surprisingly flavorful.
This recipe has no beans, which is good because not everyone loves beans. It's all veggie, many of them frozen.
This is a simple and easy version of potato and cheddar soup. It gets a lot of its flavor from chicken broth, onions and garlic, so it's a very simple recipe full of bold flavors.
The perfect fall comfort food. Barley, hearty vegetables and chuck roast make the a delicious tomato based soup.
Creamy buffalo chicken chili takes seven hours to cook, but only 15 minutes of prep. So that's 15 minutes of work on your part and the slow cooker does the rest.
It has buffalo wing sauce to give it a little kick. You can certainly add more if you prefer it.
This one uses sharp cheddar and cream cheese for a special flavor. In fact the cream cheese is about the only thing that's not from scratch in this recipe, and yet it only takes about 15 minutes of prep time.
And yes, you can replace the beef with Beyond Beef or any other meat substitute you like for hamburger.
The beautiful thing about corn chowder is how it's warm and creamy and perfect for winter, but it has that delicious crunch from the corn. Not to mention the smoking us from the bacon.
This recipe calls for corn, golden potatoes and yellow onions for the most flavorful corn chowder.
What's more comfort food than potato soup? You can make this recipe in just just a few minutes. Throw the ingredients in your slow cooker, and you have dinner made for the whole week.
This recipe is very similar to Avgolemono Soup. Along with shredded chicken and rice, it has celery, carrots, several herbs and seasonings… and the unexpected freshness of lemon.
This split pea soup with ham is a filling and tasty soup that can be made on a budget. It only takes forty-five minutes to cook on the stove top, or can be placed in a crockpot. The split pea is a great little legume that doesn't need much to taste great.
This is an easy recipe that's got chicken, corn carrots, celery, onion, potatoes, garlic, and bacon. The half and half and cheese give it a super creamy texture. It's enough for a crowd or for batch cooking.
There are no meat substitute in this vegan stew. It gets its hardiness from beans, lots of fresh veggies, corn, and peas.
You'll even find some tips about using your veggie scraps from this one to make your own homemade vegetable broth.
Perfect for a cozy weeknight. This recipe features a cheesy broth loaded with shredded chicken, black beans, corn and tomatoes. This soup has so much flavor.
In this recipe, the wild rice is seasoned with rosemary and thyme for an extra special flavor that's nothing like ordinary rice. It also features carrots, onion and garlic, so you know it's got plenty of flavor.
This cheesy twist on chicken soup is the ultimate comfort food. Using leftover chicken and inexpensive vegetables, it’s also a budget friendly meal for your menu!
This is a dump and go style recipe. You just put the broccoli, carrots, onions, garlic, cream cheese, spices and chicken broth into the slow cooker. Once the cream cheese has softened, you add in cream and shredded cheese for the perfect soup on a cold night.