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Chowders, Bisques, and Gumbos

From our specialty corn chowder to our favorite gumbo recipes, cook up one of our decadent specialty soups. Go ahead - add breadcrumbs or dip delicious breads in your favorite soup.

The Best Potato Soup EVER

A tasty potato soup that is thick with flavor from stewed potatoes and onions. Topped with cheese, bacon, and chives; this soup is the perfect ...

Quick Classic Beef Barley Soup

Flavorful sauteed beef sirloin served with a savory barley broth that has mushrooms and bell pepper.

Asian Hot & Sour Soup

Try this hot and sour soup to add new flavor to dinner. The recipe has no meat, so vegetarian guests can enjoy it too.

Chunky Potato and Cheese Soup

Make this cheese and potato soup for dinner tonight - it has loads of classic ingredients for a recipe that never goes out of season.

Cowboy Corn Chowder

This tasty corn chowder is cooked with the corn cobs for flavor. If you like your soup a little thicker, add some cornstarch to the ...

El Scott y Diane Tortilla Soup

A south of the border soup with chicken black beans, and corn in a thickened broth made of cilantro, tomatoes, and green chilies with crunchy ...

Cilantro Lobster Bisque

Chunks of lobster are added to a saucy mixture of milk, chicken broth, and tomato puree, flavored with sherry, garlic, and jalapeno pepper. Chopped tomato ...

Creamy Chicken Alfredo Chowder

Chicken breasts are cooked with onion, garlic and mushrooms, then combined with light Alfredo sauce, peppers, great northern beans and chicken broth.

Cheesy Potato Soup

White potato cubes are cooked then mashed to form the base of this soup. Additional potato cubes are combined with cheese, cream cheese, and onion.

Hearty Cheesy Corn Chowder

Au gratin potato mix is the base for this soup, which combines chicken broth, evaporated milk and fresh and frozen vegetables.

Tiny Potato and Carrot Chowder

Cut up new potatoes are combined with carrots, diced green chilis, onion, cumin, vegetable broth, milk, and cheddar cheese.

Veggie Chowder

Potatoes, frozen vegetables, cream of mushroom & dry onion soup mix are in this chowder, which may be thickened with instant potato flakes.

Mom's Butternut Squash Soup

Butternut squash, potatoes, celery and onion are cooked with seasonings in chicken broth, then pureed. The mixture is heated with milk and unsweetened coconut milk, ...

Four-Pepper Black Bean Soup

Jalapeno, green chilies, bottled hot pepper sauce, and cracked black pepper add hotness to this soup, which uses canned black beans and chicken broth, and ...

Spiced Sweet Potato Soup with Maple Creme Fraiche

Sweet potatoes are cooked in chicken broth, stick cinnamon, whole cloves and nutmeg. The mixture is served with sour and whipped cream and maple syrup.

Beer Cheese Soup

This soup contains both Cheez Whiz and cheddar cheese, in a flour-thickened mixture of chicken broth and beer with a hint of Worcestershire.

Easy Broccoli Cheese Soup

Make this thick and rich chowder-like soup even more special by adding a garnish of crumbled, crisp-cooked bacon.

Fiesta Shrimp Soup

This soup combines shrimp with tomatoes and onion in chicken broth, and has salsa, green chilies, and cumin for a Mexican flavor.

Nacho Corn Chowder

Frozen hash browns, frozen corn, canned green chilies, and packaged shredded cheddar cheese make this an easy soup to prepare.

Cajun Seafood Chowder

The chowder contains condensed cream of celery and potato soups along with canned crabmeat, frozen shrimp, Bayou Cajun seasoning and a little wine.

Snowy Day Lentil Soup

Dry lentils in beef broth with carrots, peppers, onion and celery, baby spinach and tomato sauce are added, with cumin and oregano to taste.

Harvest Chicken Chowder

This chowder is full of chicken and vegetables (potatoes, carrots, celery, onion, mushrooms and corn) in a flour-thickened liquid of chicken broth, cream of chicken ...

Jessica's Black Bean Soup

Canned black beans are combined with onion, stewed tomatoes, & chilies, and seasoned with cumin, lemon juice & crushed red pepper to make this soup.

Dave's Favorite Chicken-Corn Chowder

Cubed chicken breast, potatoes, onion, carrot & whole kernel corn are cooked in broth. The thickened liquid also has milk, cream, and cheddar cheese.

Creamy Carrot Soup

Carrots, onion, celery & fennel are cooked in broth, then blended smooth. Thyme & anise add flavor, and whipped creme fraiche is dolloped on each ...

Easy Potato-Cheese Soup

Mediterranean Bean Soup

Creamy Potato-Bacon Chowder

Sweet Potato Soup with Spicy Pecans

Cream of Mushroom Soup with Bacon

Mexican Chicken Chowder

Moroccan Chickpea Soup

Thick, Rich, Creamy Turkey-Corn Chowder

Thai-Style Sweetcorn Soup

New Year's Cioppino

Parsnip and Carrot Soup with a Pecan Garnish

Creamy Potato and Ham Soup

Autumn Apple Bisque

Cream of Parsnip Soup with Toasted Pumpkin Seeds

South Seas Sweet Potato Soup

Acorn Squash Soup

Smoked Turkey Chowder

Pumpkin Patch Corn Chowder

Salmon Soup

Mushroom Lentil Soup with Blue Cheese

Herbed Garlic Shrimp Soup

Creamy Sweet Potato and Apple Soup

Minnesota Clam & Wild Rice Chowder

Sweet Corn Chowder

Wild Pumpkin Soup

Creamy Roasted Butternut Squash Pecan Soup

Creamy Baked Garlic and Onion Soup

Zesty Crab and Corn Chowder

Healthy Crab Bisque

Barnyard Chowder

Linda's Cream of Crab Soup

Steamy Seafood Chowder

Butternut Squash and Crab Soup

Elegant Tomato Bisque

Asparagus Chowder

Pumpkin-Cheddar Bisque with Curried Crab

Potato-Onion Soup

Cilantro Cream Soup

Spinach-Tortellini Soup

Slimmed-Down Roasted Red Pepper and Corn Chowder

Roasted Red Pepper and Shrimp Bisque

Crab and Spinach Vichyssoise

Creole Maque Choux Chowder

Outrageous Potato Corn Chowder

Glazed Ham and Sweet Potato Chowder

Potato Sausage Soup

Sausage Broccoli Rabe Soup

Mushroom & Potato Soup

Spinach Soup

Lazy Day Farm Pasta Fagioli

Spinach Bisque with Dill and Lemon

Cream of Butternut Squash Soup

Spinach Bisque with Dill and Lemon Zest

Chilled Buttermilk Soup with Peppers, Cucumbe...

Spicy Tomato Soup

Hearty Sausage and Potato Soup

Cozy Catalan Bean and Spinach Soup

Homemade Tomato Soup

Gazpacho Clam Chowder

Tomato Bisque

Creamy Tuscan Bean Soup

Easy Day Gumbo

Spicy Corn and Potato Chowder

Hot and Hardy Potato Soup by Gamma

Cheesy Sausage & Potato Soup

Farm Style Potato Soup

Quick Kielbasa Soup

Corn and Crab Bisque

Country Style Potato Soup

Burgumbo ala Barbara

Curried Pumpkin Bisque

Gianna's Mexican Lentil Soup

Chicken and Mushroom Gumbo

Corn, Shrimp and Crab Bisque

Caribbean-Inspired Soup

Lemon Velvet Brie Soup with Shrimp

Hearty Soup over Rice

Shrimp Boil Soup

Sunny Side Chowder

Cheddar Potato Soup

Creme de la Portabella Onion Soup

Southwestern Chicken Soup

Sally's Shrimp Gumbo

Veggie-Potato Soup

Winter Vegetable Potage with Chipotle Berry S

Hungarian Five Star Mushroom Soup

Easy Skillet Gumbo with Fired Okra Croutons

Hot Soup for a Cold Day

Quick and Easy Shrimp Chowder

Super Delicious Italian Soup

Bacon and Potato Soup

Snappy Carrot Soup

Kickin Creamy Seafood Soup

Pleasant Pheasant Soup

Salmon Chowder

Shrimp, Peppered Turkey and Wild Rice Soup

Swiss Mushroom Sausage Soup

Potage de pistaches de LaVerne

Hearty Oxtail Shank and Vegetable Soup

Pam's Jambalaya

Spinach Barley Soup

Sausage Barley Soup

Cabbage and White Bean Soup

Hearty Cabbage and Kielbasa Soup

Crab and Corn Bisque

Super Bowl Seafood Chowder

Holiday Spiced Sweet Potato Bisque

Patzi's Famous Split Pea Soup

Sweet Italian Bean Soup

Dippy Vegetable Soup

Manhattan Clam Chowder

Italian Soup

Corn and Potato Chowder

Beer-Cheese Chowder

Crescent Capped Minestrone Chowder

Sausage Beans and Rice


Seafood-and-Fennel Chowder

Fennel does wonders for this soup: Its subtle flavor brings out the sweetness of the seafood. If fennel is not available, you can substitute celery.

Tuna-Corn Chowder

This hearty tuna and corn chowder is seasoned with onion and dill weed.

Crab Chowder

This winning chowder features crabmeat, the prize of all seafood. It's even more enticing with bouquet garni seasoning, which is a mixture of several herbs, ...