It is possible to have a creamy vegan spinach soup without adding any dairy-free milk or cream. The not-so-secret ingredient is the potato. That’s right whole foods all the way! It technically makes this recipe more of a vegan spinach and potato soup though. I hope you don’t mind. 🙂
We love soups. We have a whole Vegan Soup Recipes gallery, but just let me share with you other cream soups you might like as well: Vegan Cauliflower Soup, Cream of Mushroom Soup, Hokkaido Pumpkin Cream Soup or Smoky Sweet Potato Soup.
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Let’s talk about spinach recipes!
I hated any dish with spinach for so long. I have tried garlic sautéed spinach, spinach pottage, spinach salad, and spinach pesto pasta. But none of them was a hit back then.
Until one day I had creamy spinach soup with mozzarella balls on a lunch menu at a hotel. I was hungry, so having no other choice I tried it. And it was awesome! I don’t know what was I thinking not loving spinach before. So for years, we have perfected our spinach soup recipe to get it as close as possible to the one I ate at the hotel. Finally, I think we figured it out. The secret is the potato. Who knew, right?
This spinach soup recipe became even the FAVOURITE soup of our older daughter. Seriously…
By the way, this recipe is also part of our Quick Vegan Meals collection.
How to make vegan spinach soup?
You need only 5-ingredients. Nothing fancy or hard to get. Whole foods all the way: onions, garlic, spinach, potato, and vegetable broth. Watch this quick slideshow on how to make cream of spinach soup or read on.
Step 1 – Prepare your vegetables
Wash the fresh spinach leaves. Peel and finely chop the onion and the garlic. Peel and dice the potatoes. You can shorten the cooking time by dicing the potatoes smaller like 1 * 1 inch.
Step 2 – Cook your vegan spinach soup
Cook onion and garlic in olive oil. Add spinach to sautée them a bit. (For WFPB-friendly recipe add them directly to the veggie broth.) When the spinach is slightly wilted, pour the vegetable broth and add the peeled and diced potatoes. Cook until potatoes are soft and blend it with a hand blender or regular blender until smooth and creamy. Easy peasy.
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How to serve this easy spinach soup?
We tried it with so many different garnishes like
- breadsticks (I like these Schar gluten-free breadsticks*)
- vegetable chips (I usually buy a beetroot – sweet potato – parsnip mix from Aldi, but this one looks very similar*)
- croutons or crackers
- trail mix
- veggie balls/veggie patties (we have a couple of delicious recipes you can eat with this spinach soup to the side like eggplant meatballs, chickpea meatballs, mushroom meatballs, IKEA veggie balls)
- vegan mozzarella balls
What is your favorite spinach soup garnish?
Nutritious cream of spinach soup
Spinach is the first thing you think of when you hear iron-rich leafy green. It is low carb but high in fiber. Spinach is also rich in Vitamin A, C, K1, calcium, folic acid, and iron. Not to mention…
Did you know that spinach belongs to the amaranth family and is related to beets and quinoa? /Healthline/
All these nutrients are important for everyone, but calcium, folic acid and iron especially important for pregnant or breastfeeding moms. That’s why I always add a handful of spinach to my Green Lactation Smoothie.
This cream of spinach soup is vegan, vegetarian, dairy-free, nut-free, grain-free, gluten-free and WFPB-friendly (whole foods plant-based). More recipes with spinach.
This Spinach Soup recipe is meat-free, dairy-free and egg-free. It is suitable for vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free and nut-free diets. This recipe is WFPB-friendly (whole foods plant-based) if you cook the vegetables directly in veggie broth.
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More light dinner recipes
You can browse through our Vegan and Gluten-free Dinner Recipes or our Quick Vegan Meals collection or check out
- Minestrone Soup
- 30-min One-pot Ratatouille
- Red Lentil Soup
- Vegetarian Goulash Soup
- Quinoa Sweet Potato Chili
The Easiest Cream of Spinach Soup (Vegan)
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 Tbsp Olive oil
- 1 Onion (medium)
- 2 cloves Garlic
- 10 oz Fresh spinach leaves 300g
- 2 ½ cup Vegetable broth 600ml
- 2 Potato (medium)
- Salt
- Pepper
Instructions
- Wash the fresh spinach leaves. Peel and finely chop onion and garlic. Peel and dice potatoes. The smaller you dice them, the shorter will be your cooking time.
- Heat a saucepan on medium heat until olive oil is shimmering. Add the chopped onion and garlic coat it with the oil and spread evenly. Stir occasionally. (For WFPB diet – cook them in veggie broth directly.)
- Once onion is tender but still white, add the fresh spinach leaves and stir until wilted.
- Now add vegetable broth and the diced potatoes. Cook them until tender 15-20 minutes.
- Use a hand blender and puree them thoroughly. Now add the salt and pepper to taste. Ready to serve it.
Notes
- breadsticks (I like these Schar gluten-free breadsticks*)
- vegetable chips (I usually buy a beetroot – sweet potato – parsnip mix from Aldi, but this one looks very similar*)
- croutons or crackers
- trail mix
- veggie balls/veggie patties (we have a couple of delicious recipes you can eat with this spinach soup to the side like eggplant meatballs, chickpea meatballs, mushroom meatballs, IKEA veggie balls)
- vegan mozzarella balls
Maria Federowicz
I like to add frozen peas instead of a potato to my spinach soup. Mine is not vegan, but has cream, so I’m not sure how it comes out being vegan, but peas have fiber, protein, a bit of iron, and help thicken the soup quite well before I add the cream. Frozen peas are also usually quite cheap and I add fairly early.
My Pure Plants
Hi Maria, indeed, green peas sound like a great match. It is easy to substitute heavy cream with a dairy-free cooking cream or even any plant-based milk with a bit of starch or potatoes.
Stellar Kiwanuka
I’ve just made this soup and could not believe how great it’s come out. It’s so smooth and creamy you can think it’s loaded with butter and cream. Thank you for this. Definitely adding it to my recipes.
My Pure Plants
Hi Stellar, thank you so much for trying out recipe. We are so glad you liked it.
David A Buckingham
So easy and looks great with a deep green.
The only thing I found that it needed was 1 small lemon and 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne chilli pepper.
Now it’s amazing!!
Thank you
Amelia
Do you think 10oz of defrosted frozen spinach would work?
My Pure Plants
Hi Amelia,
That could absolutely work if they are spinach leaves (fresh or defrosted) and not puree. As frosted spinach puree tend to be too much.
Amelia
I was thinking frozen chopped spinach which I would classify as spinach leaves and not puree (I didn’t know you could get frozen spinach puree!)–I’m looking at the time you posted your comment and realizing we are not on the same continent so maybe we are from places that word things differently–so just to double-check, are thawed-from-frozen chopped spinach leaves ok or is that what you mean by puree?
My Pure Plants
That should be good yes.
MaryDunaway
I want to make this soup sounds great
Lu
Hi, what’s the white decoration on top? Sour cream? Make this soup often and looking for more garnishes- Thanks!
My Pure Plants
Vegan heavy cream actually, but sour cream is a great choice too.
Susan Ketterman
I just made this but feel it needs some other kind of seasoning than salt and pepper. I am not good at knowing how to season dishes, so am at a loss. It’s beautiful, and since I had extra garden fresh spinach, made a large amount. Now… to figure out how to bring out the teste a little more!
My Pure Plants
We like garlicky spinach, that is why we haven’t added other herbs or spices. You can always add more garlic. 🙂 Also, nutmeg goes great with spinach, if you want to add something.
BEBA
Add cilantro finely shopped spoons.
Fiona Manoon
Thank you so much for sharing recipes.Great blog!!!