This alphabet vegetable soup recipe is easy, homemade, and satisfying. It freezes wonderfully and keeps perfectly for lunches all week. Add your favorite spices and use your favorite vegetables. Alphabet pasta is really fun, but any small shaped pasta works!
I know, I know. Vegetable soup where I usually share recipes like chocolate cake and peanut butter pie?
Stick with me. This is an absolutely delicious soup recipe, especially considering that most of your bowl is vegetables. Paired with lots of seasonings, plenty of garlic, hearty potato, and super fun pasta, vegetable soup finally receives a glamorous makeover.
This homemade soup is… SO GOOD! It joins my list of 30 delicious fall dinner recipes—and for good reason.
Let’s Make Alphabet Vegetable Soup!
Spelling with our food calls for lots of excitement! I was inspired to make homemade alphabet vegetable soup because (1) it’s adorable and (2) homemade soup always tastes superior to canned. I bought the Amy’s brand organic alphabet soup a few times recently and while it tastes great (for kids and adults!), I knew I could replicate it at home.
This is a very low-key soup with a lot of room for substitutions. Chicken or vegetable broth? Either works. Fresh or frozen veggies? You pick. Green beans, corn, carrots? Use whatever. Just about any combination of ingredients, while somewhat following the recipe, works.
Two additions we love:
Where Can I Find Alphabet Pasta?
I bought alphabet pasta online (affiliate link), but later realized it’s common in most major grocery stores. If you can’t find alphabet pasta or don’t want to buy it online, use any small shaped pasta. You need about 1 cup dry.
By the way, frozen veggies make the soup even easier. No need to thaw!
What makes me happy: This soup is really easy, loaded with vegetables, pretty healthy, feeds us for a few days, satisfies for hours, and tastes awesome.
What makes me even happier: My kids eat it!
If you don’t love it too, I promise to come spoon up your leftovers.
Here’s a friendly reminder that brown butter sage dinner rolls, no knead seeded oat bread, homemade breadsticks, asiago-crusted skillet bread, sweet potato dinner rolls, and homemade biscuits all make the best soup dippers.
Homemade Alphabet Vegetable Soup Recipe
Ingredients You’ll Need
Instructions
- Heat the olive oil over medium heat in a 5-quart (or larger) pot or dutch oven. Add the garlic, onion, Italian seasoning, salt, thyme, and pepper. Stir and cook for 5 minutes as the onion softens.
- Add broth, vegetables, potato, bay leaf, tomato paste, and diced tomatoes. Bring to a boil, then add uncooked pasta. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes. Remove bay leaf.
- Serve soup warm and top with fresh parmesan cheese, if desired.
- Cover and store leftovers in the refrigerator for up to a week. To reheat, simply pour into a pot over medium heat and cook until warm. Feel free to add more broth to the leftovers as it cooks if it is too thick. (It thickens in the refrigerator as the potatoes and noodles soak up the liquid.)
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