12 Pumpkin Soup Recipes to Rotate This Fall

Creamy Pumpkin Soup — Photo:
Diana Chistruga

Nothing says fall like creamy, velvety pumpkin soup. Here, Food & Wine's best pumpkin soup recipes incorporate maple, cinnamon, bacon, and more flavor combinations to make during the crisp, cool months of sweater season. Try them all and choose your favorite way to experience autumn in a steaming hot bowl.

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Whole Baked Pumpkin Soup

You'll need two pumpkins to make this six-ingredient soup — baking them whole traps the steam inside, resulting in a lush, velvety pumpkin puree and making the skins easy to remove. A simple reduction of dry white wine mingles with butter to balance the sweetness of the pumpkin.

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Pumpkin Soup with Thai Red Curry Paste and Lemongrass

Thai Pumpkin Soup — Photo by Morgan Hunt Glaze / Food Styling by Ruth Blackburn / Prop Styling by Christina Daley

Instead of the usual autumn spices like cinnamon and nutmeg, this pureed pumpkin soup was inspired by Thai flavors. Coconut milk makes it especially creamy, while Thai red curry paste and garlic lend depth and heat. Lemongrass, ginger, and a squeeze of fresh lime juice brighten each spoonful.

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Creamy Pumpkin Soup

Silky smooth and delicately spiced, this pumpkin cream soup is one of those fantastic recipes that yields an amazingly delicious dish with very minimal effort — it's table-ready in just 45 minutes.

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Pumpkin and Apple Soup

Save the large Jack-O-Lantern pumpkins for carving — this recipe leans on smaller, sweeter sugar pumpkins for their superior flavor. Tart Granny Smith apples provide the perfect contrast.

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Pumpkin and Yellow Split Pea Soup

Adding pumpkin to dal — the spicy Indian legume dish — results in a hearty soup with a lovely edge of sweetness. You'll need both fresh and canned pumpkin to make it.

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Sweet and Savory Pumpkin Soup with Maple Sugar

Sweet & Savory Pumpkin Soup with Maple Sugar — © Phoebe Lapine

This iteration of pumpkin soup owes its unique flavor to the addition of maple sugar. Just a tablespoon stirred into the pumpkin puree provides a sweet edge as the soup simmers; garnish each bowl with a light sprinkle before serving.

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Pumpkin Soup with Fideos

Though this dish is vegetarian, cooking the pumpkin with cinnamon and cloves gives the broth an "implied meatiness," says chef Michael Solomonov. Toasted fideos help thicken the soup and make it even more substantial.

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Roasted Pumpkin Soup with Bacon and Thyme

Made with the usual assortment of warming spices plus a bit of fresh thyme, it's the bacon topping that really sets this pumpkin soup recipe apart from the rest.

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Pumpkin Soup with Creole Lobster

Chefs Slade and Allison Rushing's luxurious take on pumpkin soup is topped with lobster bathed in spicy butter — the natural brininess helps bring out the soup's deep, earthy flavor.

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