Spring soup recipes

This freezable soup is a delicious way to use up a glut of courgettes

A super-green and super-tasty vegetable soup with a few simple ingredients, including spinach and shallots

A vibrant green blended soup with half-fat crème fraîche that's healthy and filling - make a batch and freeze

Get your gloves on to forage for wild plants like nettles - once cooked they have a spinach or cabbage flavour

Enjoy this filling veggie soup with red lentils, carrots and leeks. It's low in calories and fat and delivers three of your 5-a-day

A superhealthy starter or snack that's great hot or cold

Enjoy this super healthy soup when you want a comforting but low-calorie lunch – rich in fibre, vitamin C and folic acid

The lovely, leafy spinach in this recipe makes for a flavoursome and intriguing bright-green soup

This vibrant soup is fresh-tasting and substantial enough to have for dinner

A meaty and vibrant soup that's great for using up festive ham leftovers or as a comforting storecupboard soup

Batch cook a vegetable soup when you have a seasonal bounty and you'll always have a healthy meal in the freezer

This super healthy soup combines broccoli and kale with ginger, coriander and turmeric for a nutrient dense and low-fat lunch

Treat as a healthy lunch or vegetarian starter, this simple and refreshing vibrant green soup is low in calories and features three of your five-a-day

Sweet peas and peppery watercress are a perfect match for early summer, but you can adapt this soup to suit all year round

This healthy, low-fat soup is based on the classic leek and potato, but cannellini beans replace the potatoes – as they contribute to your 5-a-day

Superhealthy - counts as 1 of 5-a-day

Use chicken thighs for this – they are tastier and better value than breasts

Make our simple, budget-friendly tomato, orzo and chickpea soup in just 30 minutes. This easy, vegetarian family meal is healthy and even low fat

Simmer up this vibrant green soup in under 15 minutes - thickened with potato and buttermilk to boost fibre, calcium and vitamin C

Goat's cheese toasts give a contrast in texture to this silky smooth soup - a special dinner party starter or seasonal lunch

Forage for some fresh spring greens and simmer with finely diced vegetables to make this vibrant, healthy, low-fat green soup

Discover the rustic flavours of tagine in a soup. Packed with chickpeas, peppers and kale plus apricots for sweetness, this satisfying soup is super-healthy