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Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• vegetable oil
• onion
• garlic
• white kidney bean
• chicken broth
• black pepper
• thyme
• water
• spinach
• lemon juice

Instructions

1. 1 Heat oil in a large soup pot over medium-low heat. Add onion and celery; cook and stir until tender, about 5 to 8 minutes. Add garlic, and cook for 30 seconds, continually stirring.
2. 2 Stir in beans, chicken broth, pepper, thyme, and 2 cups water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 15 minutes.
3. 3 Use a slotted spoon to remove 2 cups of bean and vegetable mixture from soup; set aside.
4. 4 Blend remaining soup in small batches in a blender at low speed until smooth — it helps to remove the center piece of the blender lid to allow steam to escape.
5. 5 Pour blended soup back into pot; stir in reserved beans.
6. 6 Bring soup to a boil, occasionally stirring. Stir in spinach and until spinach is wilted, about 1 minute.
7. 7 Stir in lemon juice and remove from heat. Serve soup with freshly grated Parmesan cheese on top.

By colleenlora

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• breakfast sausage
• sage
• butternut squash
• carrot
• onion
• sherry
• chicken broth
• beef broth
• brown sugar
• pumpkin pie spice
• half and half
• black pepper
• sour cream

Instructions

1. 1 Cook and stir pork sausage in a large heavy pot or Dutch oven over medium heat until sausage is browned and crisp, 5 to 8 minutes. Remove sausage with a slotted spoon, leaving drippings in the pot. Brown the sage leaves in the hot drippings until crisp, about 30 seconds; remove sage leaves and set aside.
2. 2 Cook butternut squash, celery, carrots, and onion in the remaining sausage drippings until the vegetables are softened, stirring only one time after about 5 minutes. Pour sherry into the pot and stir to dissolve any browned bits of food on the bottom of the pot. Pour in chicken and beef broth and stir in brown sugar and pumpkin pie spice. Bring the soup to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer until squash is tender, about 20 minutes.
3. 3 Puree soup with an immersion blender, leaving a few chunks of vegetables. Pour in half-and-half and season with black pepper. Divide soup into 4 large bowls and top each serving with 1 teaspoon sour cream, cooked sausage, and 2 fried sage leaves.

By Sarah Waltrip

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• olive oil
• carrot
• onion
• garlic
• tomato sauce
• chicken broth
• parsley
• basil
• black pepper
• ditalini pasta
• cannellini bean

Instructions

1. 1 Heat olive oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add carrot, celery, and onion; cook and stir until soft. Add garlic and sauté briefly.
2. 2 Stir in tomato sauce, chicken broth, parsley, basil, and pepper; simmer for 20 minutes.
3. 3 Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add ditalini pasta and cook for 8 minutes or until al dente; drain.
4. 4 Add beans and cooked pasta to soup; simmer until heated through, 1 or 2 minutes.
5. 5 Enjoy!

By Cindy

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• olive oil
• leek
• carrot
• zucchini
• green bean
• vegetable stock
• tomato
• thyme
• cannellini bean
• elbow macaroni
• salt
• black pepper

Instructions

1. 1 Heat olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add leek, carrots, zucchini, green beans, and celery. Cover, reduce the heat to low, and cook for 15 minutes, shaking the pan occasionally.
2. 2 Uncover and stir in stock, tomatoes, and thyme; bring to a boil. Cover again, reduce the heat to low, and simmer gently for 30 minutes.
3. 3 Stir in undrained cannellini beans and pasta. Simmer for an additional 10 minutes, or until pasta is tender yet firm to the bite. Season with salt and pepper before serving.

By Allrecipes Member

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• olive oil
• onion
• carrot
• garlic
• chicken broth
• water
• white bean
• meatball
• baby spinach
• asiago cheese
• salt
• black pepper

Instructions

1. 1 Heat oil in a large pot over high heat. Saute onion, carrots, celery, and garlic until onion is pale golden, about 4 minutes. Pour broth and water into pot; cover the pot and bring mixture to a boil.
2. 2 Stir beans and meatballs into broth mixture; bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, cover the pot, and simmer, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are tender and meatballs are heated through, about 20 minutes.
3. 3 Mix spinach, Asiago cheese, salt, and pepper into soup; simmer until spinach wilts, about 1 minute.

By Tellico Cook

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• vegetable stock
• tomato
• potato
• onion
• carrot
• cabbage
• italian seasoning
• kidney bean
• corn kernel
• zucchini
• orzo pasta
• salt
• pepper

Instructions

1. 1 In a large soup pot, combine vegetable stock, undrained tomatoes, potato, onion, celery, carrot, cabbage, and Italian seasoning. Bring to a boil and reduce heat. Simmer for about 15 minutes.
2. 2 Stir in beans, corn, zucchini, and pasta; simmer for 10 to 15 more minutes until the vegetables are tender. Season with salt and pepper.

By Maryanne

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• ground beef
• olive oil
• onion
• garlic
• black pepper
• beef broth
• tomato
• tomato paste
• thyme
• basil
• oregano
• parsley
• ditalini pasta
• kidney bean

Instructions

1. 1 In a large pot over medium heat, cook beef until no longer pink. Drain and set aside.
2. 2 In the same pot, heat the olive oil. Cook onion, celery, garlic and black pepper until vegetables are tender, 10 minutes. Stir in beef broth, crushed tomatoes and tomato paste. Season with thyme, basil, oregano and parsley. Cover, reduce heat and simmer 1 hour. (At this point, you may put the pot on a back burner to keep warm and continue with the next steps about 1 hour prior to serving, if you wish.)
3. 3 Stir in the beef and simmer 15 minutes. Stir in the pasta and cook until al dente, 8 to 10 minutes. Stir in the beans and heat through, 10 to 15 minutes.

By Ivan O Teeter

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• black pepper
• salt
• nutmeg
• thyme
• spinach
• gnocchi
• rotisserie chicken
• half-and-half
• half and half
• chicken broth
• all-purpose flour
• garlic
• carrot
• red bell pepper
• onion
• zucchini
• olive oil
• butter

Instructions

1. 1 Melt butter with olive oil in a large soup pot over medium heat. Cook and stir zucchini, celery, onion, red bell pepper, carrots, and garlic in hot butter-oil until vegetables are soft, 8 to 10 minutes. Stir in flour until vegetables are coated; cook for 2 more minutes.
2. 2 Pour in chicken broth and stir until flour paste combines with broth and soup is thick and smooth, about 5 minutes. Pour in both kinds of half-and-half; bring to a simmer. Cook until soup is slightly thickened, about 5 more minutes.
3. 3 Gently fold chicken, gnocchi, and spinach into soup. Season with thyme, nutmeg, salt, and pepper. Adjust thickness by adding more chicken broth, if desired.

By Kristin

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• black pepper
• salt
• kale leaves
• red pepper flakes
• thyme
• tomato paste
• zucchini
• vegetable broth
• tomato
• cannellini bean
• water
• farro
• garlic
• leek
• onion
• carrot
• olive oil
• cannellini bean

Instructions

1. 1 Blend contents of 1 can cannellini beans with its liquid in a blender until puréed. Set aside.
2. 2 Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. Cook and stir celery, carrots, Spanish onion, and leek in hot oil until onion is translucent, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and continue cooking until fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes more.
3. 3 Stir farro into vegetable mixture; add water, puréed cannellini beans, drained cannellini beans, tomatoes, vegetable broth, zucchini, tomato paste, thyme, and red pepper flakes. Stir together well and bring to a boil; reduce heat to medium-low, cover the pot, and simmer until farro is tender, 45 minutes to 1 hour.
4. 4 Stir kale, salt, and pepper into stew. Add more water if needed to keep everything covered in liquid. Continue cooking until kale is bright green and fully tender, about 30 minutes more.

By Nichole Spell

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• chicken
• water
• carrot
• onion
• basil

Instructions

1. 1 Place chicken, water, celery, carrots, onion, and basil in a slow cooker.
2. 2 Cook on Low for 8 to 10 hours. Strain and discard vegetables. Chicken meat may be removed from bones and used in soup.

By Micki Stout

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• bacon
• onion
• potato
• salt
• pepper
• evaporated milk

Instructions

1. 1 Place bacon in a large, deep skillet, and cook over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Drain bacon slices on a paper towel-lined plate, crumble, and set aside.
2. 2 Cook and stir onion and celery in the remaining bacon grease over medium heat until the onion is translucent and tender. Drain excess grease, then stir in potatoes. Add water to cover all but 1 inch of the potatoes. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, then reduce to medium-low, and simmer until potatoes are tender, about 15 minutes, stirring often.
3. 3 Stir in evaporated milk, and continue cooking until warmed through. Season with salt and pepper. Stir in bacon just before serving.

By Firewife42

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• baby portobello mushroom
• onion
• carrot
• salt
• bay leaf
• water

Instructions

1. 1 Combine mushrooms, onion, carrot, celery, salt, and bay leaf in a multi-functional pressure cooker (such as Instant Pot). Pour in water. Close and lock the lid. Select high pressure according to manufacturer's instructions; set the timer for 30 minutes. Allow 30 minutes for the pressure to build.
2. 2 Release pressure using the natural-release method according to manufacturer's instructions, about 30 minutes.
3. 3 Unlock and remove the lid. Let broth sit for 20 minutes to cool. Pour liquid through a strainer and discard all solids.

By Soup Loving Nicole

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• navy bean
• water
• ham
• potato
• carrot
• onion

Instructions

1. 1 Cover beans with several inches of cool water in a large container. Let soak, 6 hours to overnight.
2. 2 Drain beans and place into a slow cooker. Add enough water to cover, then mix in ham, potatoes, carrots, celery, and onion.
3. 3 Cover and cook on High for 3 1/2 hours. Switch to Low and continue cooking for at least 6 1/2 hours. The longer it cooks the more flavorful it becomes.

By RENEE R

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• onion
• margarine
• cream cheese
• milk
• potato
• shrimp
• white wine
• salt

Instructions

1. 1 Gather the ingredients.
2. 2 Heat butter in a large soup pot over medium-low heat. Add celery and onions; cook and stir until vegetables are completely softened, about 5 to 10 minutes.
3. 3 Add cream cheese and milk; stir over low heat until cream cheese is completely melted.
4. 4 Add potatoes, shrimp, dry white wine and salt. Heat thorough, stirring occasionally; serve.

By CORWYNN DARKHOLME

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• potato
• onion
• chicken bouillon
• half-and-half
• bacon
• cream of mushroom soup
• cheddar cheese

Instructions

1. 1 Gather the ingredients.
2. 2 Place potatoes, onions, celery, and bouillon cubes in a large pot. Add enough water to cover all ingredients. Bring to a boil and simmer on medium heat for 15 minutes.
3. 3 Add half and half, bacon, cream of mushroom soup and stir until combined. Add cheese and stir until completely melted. Simmer on low until potatoes are cooked through and tender.
4. 4 Serve and enjoy!

By Elizabeth Goldsberry

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• chicken breast
• water
• cream of mushroom soup
• onion
• carrot
• baby bell pepper
• onion soup mix

Instructions

1. 1 Mix together chicken, water, condensed soup, onion, celery, carrots, baby bell peppers, and onion soup mix in a slow cooker until well combined.
2. 2 Cook on Low for 6 to 8 hours. Shred chicken using 2 forks and stir soup well before serving.

By Tara Harrison

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• butter
• onion
• chicken broth
• broccoli floret
• all-purpose flour
• milk
• black pepper

Instructions

1. 1 Gather all ingredients.
2. 2 Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a medium stock pot over medium heat. Saute onion and celery until tender.
3. 3 Add broccoli and broth, cover, and simmer for 10 minutes.
4. 4 Pour the soup into a blender, filling the pitcher no more than halfway full. Hold down the lid of the blender with a folded kitchen towel, and carefully start the blender, using a few quick pulses to get the soup moving before leaving it on to puree. Puree in batches until smooth and pour into a clean pot.
5. 5 Melt 3 tablespoons butter in a small saucepan over medium to medium-low heat; stir in flour and add milk. Stir until thick and bubbly, and add to soup. Season with pepper and serve.
6. 6 Serve hot and enjoy!

By Jessie A

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• cornish hen
• vegetable oil
• carrot
• onion
• garlic
• potato
• chicken broth

Instructions

1. 1 Remove gizzards from hen and wash hen thoroughly with water. Cut hen into several pieces.
2. 2 Heat oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add hen pieces and cook in hot oil until browned on all sides. Add celery, carrots, onion, garlic, and potatoes; cook and stir until onion is tender.
3. 3 Pour in chicken broth. Use more or less broth to your taste, but make sure to cover all the ingredients in the pot. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer until vegetables are tender and hen is cooked through.
4. 4 Remove hen from the pot and remove meat from the bones. Discard bones and return meat to soup. Serve hot.

By Dani

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• chicken
• carrot
• onion
• water
• salt
• pepper
• chicken bouillon granules

Instructions

1. 1 Gather all ingredients.
2. 2 Place chicken, carrots, celery, and onion in a large soup pot; add enough cold water to cover. Bring to a boil over medium heat; reduce heat to low and simmer, uncovered, until meat falls off of the bone, about 90 minutes. Skim off foam every so often, as needed.
3. 3 Remove chicken from the pot and let sit until cool enough to handle; chop meat into pieces, and discard skin and bones.
4. 4 Strain out vegetables, reserving the stock; rinse the soup pot and return the stock to the pot. Chop vegetables into smaller pieces; return chopped chicken and vegetables to the pot.
5. 5 Warm soup until heated through; season with salt, pepper, and chicken bouillon to taste.
6. 6 Serve and enjoy!

By Jill

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• chicken
• water
• onion
• carrot
• bay leaf
• ginger
• salt

Instructions

1. 1 Place the chicken in a large pot over high heat. Add water to cover and bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium low and simmer for 1 hour.
2. 2 Remove chicken from pot. Leave water in pot. Cool chicken. Remove skin and bones from meat. Return bones and skin to pot. Add onions, carrots, celery, bay leaf, ginger, and salt. Continue simmering for 3 to 4 hours.
3. 3 Strain and cool the stock, uncovered.
4. 4 Use the meat for soups, salads, sandwiches, or other dishes where cooked chicken is needed. After stock has been defatted, use or freeze immediately. I freeze the stock in one-cup amounts and use instead of water for cooking rice or vegetables or making gravy.

By Margaret Price

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• chicken stock
• carrot
• onion
• all-purpose flour
• salt
• white pepper
• milk
• margarine

Instructions

1. 1 Gather all ingredients.
2. 2 Pour chicken stock into a large pot, and bring to a boil. Add celery, carrots, and onion to the pot.
3. 3 Whisk flour, salt, pepper, and milk together in a bowl; add to the pot along with butter.
4. 4 Simmer until thickened, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat and use an immersion blender to puree the vegetables into the soup.

By WONDERFALK

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• butter
• onion
• water
• potato
• american cheese
• milk
• all-purpose flour
• parsley

Instructions

1. 1 Melt butter in a large pot over medium heat. Sauté onions and celery in hot butter until tender, 5 to 10 minutes.
2. 2 Stir in water and potatoes. Bring to a boil and simmer until potatoes are tender. Add cheese and stir until melted.
3. 3 Stir milk and flour together in a medium bowl until flour is mostly dissolved; pour slowly into soup, stirring constantly. Cook until soup is thickened, about 5 minutes.
4. 4 Portion soup into bowls and garnish with parsley to serve.

By Joan Zaffary

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• chicken
• onion
• carrot
• salt
• clove
• water
• water
• egg

Instructions

1. 1 Gather all ingredients.
2. 2 Place chicken parts, onion, celery, carrot, salt, and cloves in a large soup pot or Dutch oven.
3. 3 Add 6 cups water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover, and simmer for 1 hour.
4. 4 Remove chicken and vegetables.
5. 5 Strain stock.
6. 6 Skim fat off the surface.
7. 7 To clarify stock for clear soup, removing solid flecks that are too small to be strained out with cheesecloth, follow this method: Separate egg white from egg yolk and reserve the shell.
8. 8 Combine 1/4 cup cold water, egg white, and crushed eggshell in a small bowl.
9. 9 Add to strained stock and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and let stand for 5 minutes.
10. 10 Strain again through a sieve lined with cheesecloth.

By Logan

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• chicken broth
• rotisserie chicken
• carrot
• apple
• onion
• parmesan cheese
• bay leaf
• orzo pasta

Instructions

1. 1 Combine chicken broth, chicken, carrots, apple, onion, celery, Parmesan cheese, and bay leaf in a large pot; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low; simmer until vegetables are soft, about 30 minutes.
2. 2 Stir orzo into soup; cook, stirring occasionally, until orzo is tender yet firm to the bite, about 11 minutes.

By Tom Simbron

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• olive oil
• onion
• carrot
• garlic
• vegetable broth
• sage
• salt
• black pepper

Instructions

1. 1 Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium heat; cook and stir the onions, carrots, celery, and garlic in the hot oil until the onions are translucent, 5 to 7 minutes.
2. 2 Pour the vegetable stock into the pan and bring to a boil while scraping the browned bits of food off of the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon. Season with the sage, salt, and black pepper. Reduce heat to low, place a cover on the pot, and cook until the flavors blend, about 1 hour.
3. 3 Pour the soup into a blender pitcher to no more than half full. Hold the lid of the blender firmly in place. Carefully start the blender, using a few quick pulses to get the soup moving before leaving it on to puree. Puree in batches until smooth and pour into your serving vessel. Alternately, you can use a stick blender and puree the soup in the cooking pot.

By Steo

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• chicken broth
• chicken breast
• carrot
• onion
• barley
• rice
• salt
• black pepper

Instructions

1. 1 Bring chicken broth to a boil in a large pot. Stir chicken, celery, carrots, onion, barley, rice, salt, and pepper into broth. Reduce heat to medium-high and cook until chicken and rice are cooked through, about 20 minutes. Adjust salt and pepper to taste.

By Charley

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• water
• potato
• onion
• salt
• pepper
• half-and-half
• margarine
• cream of cheddar cheese soup

Instructions

1. 1 In a large stock pot add water, potatoes, onion, celery and season with salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, cover and simmer until potatoes and vegetables are tender.
2. 2 Once tender, mash soup with a potato masher, and add butter and cream.
3. 3 Gradually bring mixture to a simmer. Add condensed cheese soup and blend. Serve while hot.

By Thyra

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• chicken breast
• onion
• carrot
• salt
• garlic powder
• black pepper
• chicken broth
• egg noodle

Instructions

1. 1 Combine chicken, onion, carrots, celery, salt, garlic powder, and pepper in a multi-functional pressure cooker (such as Instant Pot). Pour chicken broth into the pot; stir well. Close and lock the lid. Select high pressure according to manufacturer's instructions; set timer for 10 minutes. Allow 10 to 15 minutes for pressure to build.
2. 2 Release pressure carefully using the quick-release method according to manufacturer's instructions, about 5 minutes. Unlock and remove the lid. Select Sauté function. Add egg noodles, and simmer until tender, about 6 minutes.

By Fioa

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• onion
• white rice
• chicken bouillon
• water
• butter
• all-purpose flour
• milk
• chicken
• milk
• black pepper

Instructions

1. 1 Cook celery, onion, rice, bouillon, and water about 20 minutes or until most of the water is absorbed by the rice. Remove from the heat.
2. 2 Make a cream base: Combine butter and flour in a small skillet, making a paste. Add 2 cups milk and stir to make a smooth sauce.
3. 3 Add cream base to the rice mixture. Add chicken and 1 cup milk. If the soup seems thick, add more milk. Add pepper to taste and serve hot.

By Nell Marsh

Ingredients

• ✓ celery
• butter
• leek
• chicken broth
• vegetable broth
• potato
• carrot
• salt
• bay leaf
• heavy cream

Instructions

1. 1 Melt butter in a stockpot over medium-high heat. Add leeks and celery; cook and stir until softened, 3 to 5 minutes.
2. 2 Add broth, potatoes, carrots, salt, and bay leaf; bring to a boil. Cook until potatoes and carrots are soft, about 20 minutes. Remove and discard bay leaf.
3. 3 Blend soup with an immersion blender until smooth. Stir cream into blended soup. Reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer until thickened, about 20 minutes.

By Andrea Luhman