Here’s a delicious spring recipe: Lemony Orzo with Spring Vegetables, packed with all the delicious green spring vegetables you love like asparagus, leeks, peas, and spinach. Everything is tossed with olive oil, lemon, and garlic, along with lots of fresh spring herbs like dill and chives. I love adding feta cheese to it as well, but you can leave it out if it’s not your thing. You’ll love this easy, one-pot, plant-based, incredibly nutritious and flavorful, risotto-like recipe! The thing that makes this recipe extra delicious and special: the dressing/sauce is added AFTER cooking everything ..read more

This Turkey Chili is such a easy, healthy, and delicious recipe, cooked in the slow cooker, on the stovetop, or in your Instant Pot! It’s super flavorful and nutritious (chock full of veggies – zucchini, corn, tomatoes, and peppers, black beans, and lean ground turkey). It’s a cheap recipe to make, especially because the whole batch uses only one pound of ground turkey. This turkey chili is a lighter version of chili – with no beef and stuffed with veggies. It’s packed full of flavor with onions, garlic, and spices – smoked paprika, chili powder. The cocoa powder is my secret chili ingredient ..read more

Have you ever heard of Rhode Island Clam Chowder? This clear broth clam chowder has no cream or milk, and is a lighter clam chowder than other versions. It’s so simple and easy to make in only 30 minutes, especially because this version uses canned clams (but feel free to use fresh if you want!). You’ve heard of New England clam chowder, and maybe you’ve heard of Manhattan clam chowder (which has tomatoes in it), but have you ever heard of clear broth clam chowder from Rhode Island (and Connecticut)? It’s simple, delicious, easy to make, and lighter than its creamy counterpart. Plus, because ..read more

Creamy Chicken and Rice Soup is the ultimate comfort food – creamy, simple, and easy to make with only a few ingredients. Using rotisserie chicken is an easy shortcut that guarantees flavorful chicken (and you don’t have to fuss with raw chicken!). Enriched rice, which has less starch in it than other kinds, helps guarantee the creamy chicken rice soup leftovers will be great without the rice getting mushy. You’ll love this easy comforting soup recipe! This creamy chicken and rice soup recipe is roughly based on my Chicken and Dumplings recipe, which is one of Bowl of Delicious’s most popular ..read more

Making homemade Egg Drop Soup is one of the easiest ways to get a nourishing dinner on the table FAST! This recipe takes 15 minutes – start to finish(!) – and doesn’t require any sautéing anything. The only thing you’ll need to slice up are some green onions. And it’s colored yellow naturally with the addition of turmeric – no yellow food dye here! This version of egg drop soup is incredibly simple, and has corn added to it for some high-fiber carbs, hearty bulk, and bright yellow color to complement the eggs. Speaking of the bright yellow color! I love using turmeric to color this egg drop s ..read more

This Red Lentil Soup is packed with vegetables and fresh herbs! Healthy, cheap, and nutritious, this soup has tons of flavor from spices like cumin, garlic, and chili powder, with natural sweetness from sweet potatoes and carrots. The broth is INCREDIBLE, especially after stirring in some fresh lemon juice and herbs at the end! It’s a fast, easy, one-pot, high-protein plant-based meal, and it just so happens to be vegan and gluten-free, if that’s your thing. Red lentils are a miracle of the dried legume family. Why? They only take 20 minutes to fully cook, with NO SOAKING NEEDED! But they’re ..read more

Portuguese Kale Soup is so much more than just greens or kale! Traditionally, Portuguese smoked sausages, such as chouriço or linguiça, are used as the meaty base, with beans added as well as potatoes, making for an incredibly hearty and nourishing soup. If you can’t get your hands on Portuguese sausages, you can easily use a Spanish chorizo, Kielbasa, or another smoked sausage of your choice. You’ll love the little bit of apple cider vinegar added at the end! I’m all about a dinner soup! You know, a soup that has everything you need for it to be a complete meal? Protein, starch, and veggies ..read more

This method for cooking steel cut oats results in a PERFECT texture – it’s creamy, chewy, and nutty, but NOT mushy or sticky. Bringing the oats to a boil, covering them, turning off the heat, and letting them sit overnight on the stovetop results in that perfect texture every time. In the morning, all you need to do is add a cup of your favorite milk or milk alternative and simmer for a few minutes to warm up! It’s a hands-off, easy, fast method to make steel cut oatmeal that makes busy mornings a breeze. I had always heard that steel cut oatmeal was delicious. But I tried making it with the ..read more

Stuffed Pepper Soup is everything you LOVE about stuffed peppers without the hassle! You only need one pot for this easy, freezable meal. The trick here is sautéing the onions and bell peppers for a long time so they get very soft and browned, so their flavor and texture doesn’t overpower. Ground beef and rice add substance to the soup for a complete, absolutely delicious meal (that also happens to be gluten free and dairy free)! This stuffed pepper soup uses almost the exact same ingredients as Greek Stuffed Peppers (Gemista). It has almost the exact same flavor profile but it’s a million ti ..read more

Stuffed Cabbage Roll Soup is perfect if you love stuffed cabbage but don’t love to assemble it. Look no further than this easy one pot recipe! Packed with ground beef, rice, and roughly chopped cabbage, with spices and other veggies, it’s everything you love about stuffed cabbage in convenient soup form. Plus, it’s freezable, makes a TON, is CHEAP, and a super nourishing complete meal-in-a-bowl. I realize that I may have a soup problem – it seems I’ve been posting soup recipes non-stop this winter! But you know what? Soup is my absolute favorite thing to make and eat. Why? Because it’s usuall ..read more