A delicious recipe for Artichoke Soup– made with simple ingredients! Cozy, comforting, affordable and ultra-flavorful, make it in 35 minutes! Vegan-adaptable!
This simple, adaptable Artichoke Soup recipe has been happening quite a lot in the last few weeks. I love the pretty light green color and silky creamy texture, a perfect contrast to crusty whole-grain bread. Using frozen artichoke hearts turns this into a very quick 30-minute dinner, which feels elegant and luxurious. But feel to use fresh hearts if accessible! Artichoke soup has a distinct and delightful flavor. It is earthy, slightly nutty, and subtly sweet. The artichoke flavor is accompanied by the richness of other ingredients such as onions, garlic, and potatoes, which add depth to the soup.
Keep this totally vegan or swirl in sour cream or yogurt for extra richness. Either way, you are sure to love how the earthy artichoke flavor really comes through!
Love artichokes? Here are a couple more delicious soups to check out- Tomato Artichoke Soup with Fennel and Tarragon and Instant Pot Chicken Artichoke Soup with Wild Rice.
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Why You will Love Artichoke Soup!
- Flavorful: Artichokes have a deep earthy flavor that shines in this soup. It adds a unique and delicious taste that will leave you wanting more.
- Creamy Texture: The addition of potatoes gives this soup a smooth and velvety texture, making it incredibly satisfying to eat.
- Versatile: This recipe is adaptable to different dietary preferences. It can be made vegan by skipping the optional sour cream or yogurt swirl, or you can add it for extra richness. You have the flexibility to customize it according to your preferences.
- Easy to Make: This soup comes together in just 35 minutes, making it a quick and convenient option for a weeknight dinner. If you use frozen artichoke hearts, it can be prepared even faster.
- Health Benefits: Artichokes are packed with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that offer numerous health benefits, such as improving digestion and promoting heart health. This soup allows you to enjoy the nutritional advantages of artichokes in a delicious and convenient way.
Ingredients Notes for Artichoke Soup
- Artichoke Hearts: This recipe can be made with fresh, frozen, or canned artichoke hearts. If you can find fresh artichokes, they will provide the best flavor, but frozen or canned artichoke hearts work well too. Make sure to thaw frozen artichokes before using them in the soup.
- Onion, Garlic, Celery: These aromatic vegetables add depth of flavor to the soup. Sauté them until they are softened and fragrant before adding the other ingredients. Feel free to use leeks instead of onion.
- Broth or stock: Use homemade vegetable stock (or store-bought veggie broth) to keep the soup vegan. You can also use chicken broth or mushroom broth for added flavor.
- Potatoes: Adding potatoes gives the soup a creamy and velvety texture. Use Yukon Gold or Russet potatoes and cut them into small cubes for quicker cooking.
- Fresh Herbs: Fresh thyme or sage leaves add an earthy and aromatic taste to the soup. You can choose whichever herb you prefer or use a combination of both.
- Sour Cream or Yogurt: If you want to add richness to the soup, you can swirl in a dollop of sour cream or yogurt. This is optional and can be skipped to keep the soup vegan, or try vegan sourcream.
- Lemon: A squeeze of lemon juice brightens the flavors of the soup and adds a hint of acidity. Adjust the amount of lemon juice according to your taste preference.
- Truffle Oil: For an extra touch of luxury and depth of flavor, drizzle some truffle oil on top of the soup. This step is optional, especially if you’re keeping the soup vegan.
- Garnishes: You can garnish the soup with various options such as a swirl of sour cream or yogurt, toasted pine nuts, croutons, parmesan cheese, or a sprinkle of vegan cheesy sprinkle. Black finishing salt is also a great option to enhance the visual appeal of the soup.
See the recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and measurements.
How to make Creamy Artichoke soup
Sauté onion, garlic and celery in a large soup pot over medium heat. Add vegetable broth, artichoke hearts and a cup of potatoes and either fresh thyme or sage. Simmer until potatoes are tender, blend it up until silky smooth.
Make sure to blend long enough so that all the silky fibers disappear, which takes a full minute of blending.
Swirl in a little sour cream and a squeeze of lemon, or keep the artichoke totally vegan.
A little truffle oil elevates the artichoke soup even further, especially if going the vegan route.
Serve the Artichoke Soup with a loaf of good crusty bread, and you have a deep earthy and satisfying meal.
Garnish the soup with a swirl of sour cream (or yogurt), truffle oil, a sprig of thyme, black finishing salt, toasted pinenuts, croutons, or try this vegan cheesy sprinkle!
Black finishing salt adds a beautiful contrast to the light green soup.
Artichoke Soup FaQs
Yes, you can definitely use canned artichoke hearts in this soup. Just make sure to drain and rinse them before adding them to the soup. However, fresh or frozen artichoke hearts will provide a better flavor and texture.
Yes, you can make the soup in advance and store it in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Reheat it on the stovetop over low heat, stirring occasionally, until warmed through.
While this recipe focuses on the flavors of artichokes, you can certainly add other vegetables to the soup if you’d like. Some options to consider are spinach, kale, carrots, or peas. Just make sure to adjust the cooking time accordingly.
Yes, you can make the soup in advance and store it in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Reheat it on the stovetop over low heat, stirring occasionally, until warmed through.
To make the soup creamier, you can add a dollop of sour cream, yogurt, or coconut milk. Alternatively, you can blend a small portion of the soup and then mix it back into the pot to create a thicker consistency.
What to serve with Artichoke Soup
More soup recipes you may enjoy
- Tomato Artichoke Soup with Fennel and Tarragon
- 25 Delicious Vegetarian & Vegan Soup Recipes
- Instant Pot Chicken Artichoke Soup with Wild Rice
Artichoke Soup, so simple, so easy! One of my favorites!
Frozen artichokes hearts are found in most grocery stores and at Trader Joes, which makes this recipe a snap! I always keep some in my freezer for dinner emergencies. They really do come in handy! And of course, if you have access to fresh artichokes near you, absolutely, use fresh, which always elevates the flavor.
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Artichoke Soup Recipe
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 20
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: soup, vegan
- Method: stove-top
- Cuisine: northwest
Description
Artichoke Soup! A simple delicious recipe using fresh or frozen artichoke hearts that can be made vegan or made creamy! Keto friendly! See notes for dairy-free.
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil (or use butter if you prefer)
- 1 large white onion, big dice
- 4–6 garlic cloves, rough chopped
- 2 celery stalks, sliced
- 1 cup potatoes, thinly sliced or diced- or sub cauliflower, or more artichoke hearts
- 1 x 12–ounce bag frozen artichoke hearts ( or sub fresh hearts, or jarred, see notes)
- 3 cups veggie broth (or chicken stock)
- 1/3 cup cashews- optional ( see notes)
- 1 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 6 sage leaves or 1 tablespoon fresh thyme
- a squeeze of lemon, to taste
- black pepper to taste
Garnish: ¼ cup sour cream (or yogurt), truffle oil, a sprig of thyme, black finishing salt, toasted pinenuts, croutons, vegan cheesy sprinkle!
Instructions
- Sauté the onion in olive oil, over medium-high heat in a large pot, stir for 3-4 minutes. Add garlic and lower heat to medium. Cook garlic until fragrant, 2-3 more minutes. Add celery, sauté 1 minute. Add potatoes, artichoke hearts, broth, optional cashews, salt and sage (or thyme).
- Bring to a boil, cover, lower heat and simmer until potatoes are very tender about 15 minutes.
- Blend in 2 batches, for a full minute each, making sure those silky fibers get all blended up. I will often give the soup a taste right from the blender to see if it is still fibrous. If so, keep blending, they will go away, I promise!!!
- Place back in the pot over very low heat. Add a little squeeze of lemon, and swirl in sour cream if using.
- Taste, and adjust salt and lemon to taste.
- Season with pepper.
- Serve in bowls with a sprig of thyme a swirl of sour cream or vegan sour cream (see note) and a drizzle of truffle oil to elevate. A light sprinkling of black salt adds a nice contrast, or add croutons, toasted pinenuts, vegan cheesy sprinkle.
Notes
If skipping the dairy, feel free to add 1/3 cup raw cashews to the soup while it is simmering for extra richness, then blend these with the soup.
If using canned artichoke hearts- make sure they are canned in water. If all you have is marinated artichokes, rinse them really well before using– they are way more acidic, so you may not need the lemon.
Feel free to use 12 ounces of fresh artichoke hearts (a scant, 3 cups). An inch of stem is perfectly ok, just make sure to slice thinly. Scoop out all the silky fibers. Cut into small pieces so they cook fast.
For a burst of extra green vibrant color, add a handful of fresh baby spinach ( or some fresh Italian parsley) to the blender when blending into a puree. ( I did not do this in the photo’s above, but have in the past.)
For the pretty sour cream swirl on the top, use a tiny whisk and whisk water with sour cream or yogurt to thin by half. Swirl it in right before serving using a spoon.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1½ cup serving- with ¼ cup sour cream added to the batch
- Calories: 179
- Sugar: 3.8 g
- Sodium: 586.7 mg
- Fat: 8.8 g
- Saturated Fat: 2 g
- Carbohydrates: 23.3 g
- Fiber: 7.6 g
- Protein: 5.3 g
- Cholesterol: 5 mg
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Thanks Sophie!
I make this soup every 3 to 4 weeks and absolutely love it! It is creamy, artichokey and very satisfying. I make bone broth from the Costco rotisserie chicken and use that, and then I also top it with hot Italian sausage sprinkled on. Not vegan then of course but so delicious. I’ve also made it strictly vegan and then put crumbled mushrooms on top also very delicious. I substitute tarragon for the spice
Sounds perfect Anne- love your adaptions. 🙂
My husband and I both really enjoyed this. I made a quick version with two cans of artichoke hearts and one can of potatos. It is very smooth and with a nice flavour, which he found sweet and I found anything but sweet.
Perfect Laura!
Delicious! I made this for the first time last night and we all LOVED it! Didn’t change a thing and served with a drizzle of thinned Greek yogurt. The lemon juice adds such a lovely brightness to the soup. An absolute winner, thanks!
thanks Phyllis!
My husband and I both LOVED this recipe and will definitely be making it again. I only made a few tweaks… upped the onion some and added about 18 oz of artichoke since we wanted it to taste extra “artichokey”. I upped the stock to 4 cups to be sure the liquid covered everything in the pot. Ours needed extra salt which I added at the purée phase.
To serve I toasted some sliced baguette brushed with olive oil and a pinch of salt and first placed that in the bowl. Then added soup, a dollop of creme fraiche and the truffle oil drizzle. So good!
I had leftovers that I ate cold the next day and just topped off in some toasted almonds and it was almost as good.
Perfect Jennifer!
Very good on my first attempt! Basically a nice cream of artichoke soup. Went great with the como bread I got at the store. The only thing I think I was missing was some sort of contrast — like a nut to top it with. I’m not sure what would work well here. I don’t think pepitas would go. Maybe pine nuts?
Toasted pinenuts would be great! Or Even the Vegan Cheesy Sprinkle. I’ll note it. 🙂
Thank you so much for this recipe. My husband and I absolutely loved this soup. So creamy, tasty, and easy to make.Fantastic
Delicous! I made this in my Ace Blender and it was great!
This is my favorite soup recipe! I’ve made it half a dozen times so far and every time I’m in bliss eating it. I usually follow the recipe but I often omit celery since we don’t often have it.
Should I defrost the artichokes first?
No, just drop in frozen. 😉
This looks delicious! Cant wait to try. I’m curious, though – why the high sodium level (1006mg)? I’m vegan so I’ll use vegetable broth. Is the chicken broth the source of salt?
Somehow I entered it wrong- sorry about that!
Can it be made ahead? Frozen??
I think it would be fine frozen! Just leave the sour cream out- and add when reheating.
This soup was amazing!! I followed the steps just as written and I have zero complaints .
I’ve also printed 8 more of your recipes to make in the next weeks, so as a new vegetarian, thank you for all the inspiring content!
Thanks Sarah- happy you like this!
My family loved it. Easy to make and delicious
Thanks Wendy!
Thanks so much Wendy! Glad everyone liked it!
I bought some artichokes because they looked pretty. I used 4 artichokes, and 4 youtube videos to work out what I was doing to get to the ‘heart’! Worth it. I wandered off and almost all my liquid was boiled down after 20mins (the extra five was the time it took me to assemble the blender) so when blended up I had an incredible dip (which I’ll also make again). Added some extra boiling water and I was back to soup, a squeeze of lemon and incredible. So much flavour. Thank you!
This soup! So easy and delicious. Never thought to try frozen artichoke hearts-delish!
This looks delicious and I’m excited to cook it tonight. Do you think an immersion blender will work?
Sorry for the delay. Great question, and I’m not sure. Did you try it? Curious! Let me know if it worked.
Wondering how this would work in the crockpot. Anyone try that yet?
Not me, please leave notes for others if you try it!
I don’t understand the rave reviews. This soup tastes mostly of celery and is a most unappetizing shade of khaki.
Hummm, it should taste like artichokes- I’m curious, did you use canned or frozen artichokes?
Frozen
I will restest this for a typo and get back. Sorry about that.
Never thought of making soup out of artichokes, but what a good idea! I made this soup with 2 cans of artichoke-hearts and without the potato. To finish it of with truffle oil turned out spectacular. It made a great lunch! I learn so much from your blog! I tell everyone about it. You’re having a true fan!!! Thank you!
Oh good… glad you liked the soup and thank you for sharing the blog!
I have a big jar of artichoke hearts and was wondering if they’d work. Sounds like I can give it a try. 😋
If they are marinated in olive oil and vinegar- you will need to rinse well in water. If packed in water you should be fine Venus!
Easy to follow recipe and all the flavours were perfect. I can’t believe I’ve never used sage in my cooking before. I even added some truffle oil. It came out creamy and everyone thought it was a lot of work for me when I said I made artichoke soup but it wasn’t. (I bought the packages of artichokes at Whole Foods). I added The swirl of yogurt and sprigs of thyme. My teenage daughter thought it looked so fancy. My 2 year old refuses everything and he kept asking for more! We had it with sourdough bread. I felt so satisfied after 🙂
So glad you liked it Darla! One of my current favorites right now, we’ve made it 4 times in the last few weeks! So simple, but oh so satisfying! Especially with good bread. 😉
So simple and fresh. I made this using canned artichoke hearts, as frozen or fresh were not available.
Super simple fast fresh Monday meal.
So glad you liked it!
Can I make this in my instant pot? Do you have a recipe for it?
Absolutely. Are you using fresh artichoke hearts?
No. Likely canned or frozen artichokes.
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I think that would be ok and long as you do a short cook, like 4-5 minutes on high pressure. Just enough to get the potatoes soft.
Delicious! I used a mix of veggie/chicken/ and cannellini bean stock, sage, cauliflower and Monterey brand vacuum packed artichoke hearts from Whole Foods. Very creamy and the artichoke flavor was not overwhelmed by the other ingredients.
Thanks!
Love it, thanks for sharing how you adapted!
I loved this recipe. I had to use quartered canned artichokes, as my local grocers do not carry frozen artichoke hearts. I shall try it with frozen, if I can ever find them. I also increased the simmering time so to make the blender part easier.
Im so glad you liked it!