Category: Soups & Stews

This beautifully flavored stew is brimming with vegetables and tofu in a creamy peanut-coconut sauce that is not too rich or heavy. See notes for soy-free and peanut-free options. Also, don’t let the ingredient list fool you! This stew is simple to make and bursting with nutrients from the spices, vegetables and tofu.

Okra can be a polarizing vegetable, and if you’re team “no okra please” then you might want to reconsider, starting with this dish. Okra is rich in magnesium, folate, vitamin C, vitamin K, fiber, and more! Add red kidney beans and whole grains to it and you have a bountiful nourishing and tasty dish.

This curry is fragrant and flavorful without being “hot” spicy. It’s easy to prepare and very satisfying! Oh, and did we mention nutrition? It’s bursting with nutrients from the tomatoes, zucchini, sweet potatoes, chickpeas, and all those healing spices. Enjoy it often — you’re getting loads of vitamin C, carotenoids, zinc, and fiber.

Forget chicken noodle soup! This is the kind of soup that will keep you glowing inside and out, with nutrient-rich kale, fiber-packed beans, prebiotic-rich onions and garlic, and phytonutrient stars — herbs, and spices.

This savory, earthy soup is wonderfully comforting and features wild rice, which is often underutilized in plant-based cooking. It’s also super nourishing and healing with the nutrient-packed mushrooms, as well as the herbs (oregano, parsley, and thyme) and spices (clove).

Coriander and star anise, the stars of this soup, are infused in a tea ball to create beautiful flavors and aromas. The soup has the lingering essence of these enchanting spices, and the tea ball can be left in or removed earlier in the cooking, depending on how much flavor you’d like to impart. Spices not only offer much flavor to meals, but they also bring with them tons of nutrition. Enjoy this soup knowing you’re taking in generous amounts of fiber, vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients.

Allowing the lentils and spices to cook together for a while lends to a soup that is fragrant and flavorful. If you love soups that are bursting with flavor while creating the most beautiful aromas throughout your home then this dal is for you! And, spices pack some of the best nutrition on the planet. If you haven’t experimented with using spices, this dish could be a great start.

What do you get when you combine butternut squash with spicy Thai flavors? A delicious, comforting soup that will leave you wanting more! This soup is not only easy to make, but it’s packed with healing ingredients from the aromatics — onion, garlic, ginger — as well as copious carotenoids from butternut squash.

There's something about the warmth and complexity of the spices and seasonings in Moroccan cuisine that really makes it special. special. This stew offers a heaping serving of black beans, chickpeas, and lentils, along with yellow-fleshed sweet potatoes that simmer in a fragrant, intoxicating broth infused with cinnamon, cumin, coriander, ginger, fennel, and garlic. This soup is bursting with both flavor and nutrition — enjoy it often!

Love noodle bowls? We do, too! Shirataki noodles combined with shiitake mushrooms and bok choy in a flavorful broth might seem indulgent, but it’s far from it. The noodles provide fiber, bok choy offers calcium, and mushrooms give you the adaptogenic and immune-supporting nutrients your body needs year-round. This restaurant-worthy bowl is easy to make in the comfort of your own home. Cooler still is that you can add even more vegetables and herbs of your choice, as well as some plant-based protein!