Vegetable Spinach Soup Recipe (30-Minute, Perfect For Fall!)

Vegetable Spinach Soup Recipe (30-Minute, Perfect For Fall!)

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Warm soups season is officially knocking on the door, temperatures are dropping significantly, and now it’s the perfect time for researching delicious, creamy, and immune-boosting soup recipes, so you can stay energized, and avoid colds, and flu during the upcoming winter months!

Undeniably, when it’s freezing cold outside, nothing can beat a big bowl of scrumptious warm, and creamy soup filled with immune-boosting veggies that will help you stay healthy this season as much as it can. Cozy atmosphere, a cotton blanket, a good book or movie, and a warm soup while it’s raining outside. Such a good feeling, you can’t deny it!

Spinach Vegetable Soup may be one of the best options and meals you can prepare as this colorful soup dish is loaded with folic acid, iron, zinc, vitamin A, and vitamin C in addition to a ton of flavor and nutrients. It is sweetened and flavored with a creaminess and tangy flavor.

It’s super nutritious, rich, vegetarian, and full of revitalizing vitamins and minerals perfect for the upcoming cold fall and winter months. You’d maybe be confused by the minimalism of the ingredients used, but don’t let that fool you. Most of the time less is actually more!

Ready in just 30 minutes, this quick spinach fall soup is such a delectable way to include more veggies in your diet and invigorate yourself with needed vitamins to strengthen your immune system!

Ideally, if you’re tired of coming across various 10+ ingredients, and complicated recipes, you have to try this super surprisingly easy and quick soup and include it in your fall and winter recipes!

Ingredients You’ll Need for you spinach soup

Spinach – Iron, vitamins C and E, A, potassium, and magnesium are all abundant in spinach. It may enhance the immune system, and the digestive system, and support eye health, according to Healthline.

Carrots – are rich in nutrients that are highly beneficial to our health, including antioxidants, beta carotene, vitamins C, and A, potassium, fiber, and many more. They can strengthen immune function, enhance wound healing, support eye health, and improve digestive health when included in a balanced diet, according to MedicalNewsToday.

Leek – leeks are nutrient-dense, and contain a lot of flavonoids, particularly one called kaempferol. Also rich in Vitamin K, may promote strong bones.

Celery –  a great source of important antioxidants, and is high in vitamins and minerals. When you consume celery, you’ll benefit from the vitamins A, K, and C as well as minerals like potassium and folate.

Greek yogurt – adds a creamy, thick texture that can enhance the flavor of the Spinach soup and goes perfectly with it, also contains a lot of nutrients such as calcium protein, probiotics, and vitamin B-12. It has many benefits such as boosting metabolism and improving gut health. Probiotics that are present in Greek yogurt act as good bacteria that may help to reestablish a bacterial balance in the gut.

Do I Need To Sauté The Vegetables First?

Vegetables should be sautéed before being added to soup, according to the majority of recipes. Vegetables are softened and cooked by high heat and oil thereby enhancing their overall flavor.

However, that is a slightly longer process (around 10 -15 minutes more), and if you’re very busy and don’t have that much time for preparing, excluding that part and doing the quicker version works just fine (sometimes I don’t even notice the difference).

There are 2 versions I use to prepare this spinach vegetable soup, and sautéing the vegetables as the first step is one of them. It’s a slightly longer process, and the differences are almost non-existent.

Is This Soup Vegan?

This Spinach soup includes using Greek yogurt as a strongly flavorful ingredient, but you can exclude it, and make it a fully vegan soup!

Is This Soup Healthy?

This Spinach Vegetable soup is incredibly healthy and high in nutrient-dense ingredients perfect to warm you during these cold fall and winter months and boost your immune system.

Vegetables are rich in vitamins, minerals, fiber, and plant compounds, which have a number of positive effects on health. Additionally, eating soup is a quick and delicious method for increasing your consumption of vegetables. (source)

Can I Put This Soup In The Fridge?

I wouldn’t recommend it, since spinach is not suitable for reheating. There are some articles and research saying that reheating spinach can be very hazardous. Nitrates, which are essential elements for our bodies to operate, are abundant in spinach. These beneficial nitrates are magically transformed into nitrites in the body when we consume some veggies fresh.

Nitrates don’t cause problems until they are heated, at which point they unleash toxic carcinogenic effects when metabolized by the body. Spinach and other vegetables high in nitrates grow more harmful the more you reheat them. (1) (2)

The safest and most convenient way is to eat this spinach vegetable soup immediately after preparing, it so you can experience the most refreshing flavor and take advantage of all the nutrients.

Why I Love This Spinach Soup Recipe

• This healthy soup is a refreshing and at the same time warming meal, perfect for cold days!
• You don’t have to sauté the vegetables, so the whole process is instantly simplified and quicker!  
• The ingredients are flexible, and you can use what you already have (instead of spinach, you could use chard or nettle, or even put all 3 together).
• It’s an easy recipe ready in approximately 30 minutes!

How To Make

1 Version (Quick)

• Put 1 liter of water to boil on medium heat.

• In the boiling water, mince 1 whole medium leek (or black onion), then also mince 1 medium carrot (50 grams), add 3 minced celery leaves, a teaspoon of oil, and 1 teaspoon of salt (you can taste, and add some seasoning that goes well with it, if you have one).

• Boil everything on small to medium heat for around 20-30 minutes (until all the vegetables are well boiled – taste them to estimate if they’re soft enough)

• Add 180 grams of spinach and leave to simmer for 10 minutes. After that, leave the soup to cool down for a couple of minutes.

• Voila! Enjoy your super healthy spinach vegetable soup!