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Soup

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s niku udon (beef udon noodle soup).

Niku udon (Japanese beef noodle soup)

The shiitake dashi base can be made from scratch, or use my shortcut if you’re tight on time.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
One-pot Greek chicken and rice: quick and delicious.

From ‘embarrassingly simple’ pasta to one-pot wonders: The 20 most popular recipes of July

An especially bleak midwinter meant more warming comfort foods (and the occasional big wodge of cake).

Carbonara you can slurp with a spoon? We’re here for it.
EASY

Soup of the carbonara variety

Traditionalists, look away. This lovely, hearty soup is pasta you can slurp with a spoon.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Green curry and lemongrass soup.

Thai green curry and lemongrass soup

Built around frozen peas, this soup gets a tick for convenience and delivers bags of flavour in very little time.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Taco soup with all the toppings.

Mexican-inspired taco soup

Taco Tuesday meets Soup Night in this hearty Tex-Mex meal with all the toppings.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
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Tomato soup

Pantry staples: The great Good Food tinned tomato soup taste test

The brief: test affordable supermarket tinned tomato soups to see which ones are worth stocking the pantry with over winter. The result? Read on.

  • Bianca Hrovat
Canned tomato soup is elevated to new heights in this version, served inside a garlic-buttered cob loaf.

Five ways to magic a meal from a can of tomato soup (starring this garlic-bread cobb loaf bowl)

Give a humble, cost-effective can a bit of juju with these ideas from Katrina Meynink.

  • Katrina Meynink
Tomato soup, extra dirty.
EASY

Dirty martini tomato ‘n’ olive soup

When you’d like nothing more than an ice-cold martini, but midweek life has other plans, this soup gives hits of salty, briny goodness.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Side soup.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s side soup

In the West, soup is commonly a first course, while in Asia it’s mostly served with the main. This is a Western-style soup you can eat as a side dish.

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Spicy tomato, tortellini and chilli soup.

This simple slow-cooker tomato soup with shop-bought tortellini is pure comfort

Plus a hearty steak and Guinness pie and a chilli con carne macaroni melt that will come up beautifully in your slow cooker.

  • Nathan Anthony