Creamy and Healthy Sweet Pepper Soup
CREAMY and HEALTHY Sweet Pepper Soup! Delicious sweet peppers are combined with chicken broth and rice to make it a dinner time favorite! This gluten-free recipe is easy to make and can easily be turned vegetarian by using vegetable broth. This is the perfect soup for using a overabundance of peppers from the garden or farmers market! Make sure to serve with some crusty Italian bread!
I was craving fresh soup a few nights ago so this Sweet Pepper Soup was born~ I was going to make my typical stuffed pepper soup but I wanted something more creamy. This soup tastes fantastic with fresh (and oh so pretty!) sweet peppers.
We are also using 1 jalapeno pepper in this soup to give it a itty bitty kick. To give the soup a little more bite, we throw some rice in at the very end. This soup is delicious, definitely a year round favorite!
It’s the perfect soup to use up a overabundance of garden peppers up in! It also freezes amazing so you you could make a few batches of it if you want to save some for the Winter too!
Even though this soup calls for sweet peppers, if you want to do a mixture of sweet and bell peppers that will taste delicious too! I often do it in the Summer with our garden peppers.
This soup is filling and best served warm. I love adding croutons or crusty Italian bread to the soup!
Hope you enjoy one of my favorite pepper meals!
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Creamy and Healthy Sweet Pepper Soup
CREAMY and HEALTHY Sweet Pepper Soup! Delicious sweet peppers are combined with chicken broth and rice to make it a dinner time favorite! This gluten-free recipe is easy to make and can easily be turned vegetarian by using vegetable broth. This is the perfect soup for using a overabundance of peppers from the garden or farmers market! Make sure to serve with some crusty Italian bread!
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1.5 pounds sweet peppers - chopped
- 1 jalapeno pepper seeds removed - minced
- 3 tablespoons fresh thyme
- 4 cloves garlic - minced
- 6 cups chicken broth or vegetable broth
- 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 2 cups cooked white rice
Instructions
- Pour olive oil in pot on medium-high heat.
- Add sweet and jalapeno peppers and saute for 10 minutes until they soften up, continue stirring during this time.
- Add garlic and thyme. Stir for 4 more minutes.
- Pour chicken broth and red pepper flakes in. Stir to combine and continue heating for 10 minutes.
- Remove from heat and in batches add to your blender. Blend until creamy.
- Add soup back to pot when done.
- Add cooked rice and stir to combine.
- Serve and enjoy!
Recipe Notes
Alternatively you can use a mixture of sweet and bell peppers in this soup.
Your idea of a perfect evening sounds amazing to me! Bring on the fluffy socksand soup, specially if it looks as tasty as this one! I’ve still have lots of homegrown peppers left, so you bet I’ll be making this soon. Sounds so cosy and comforting! 🙂
Enjoy this soup Consuelo, especially with those fluffy socks on!
Oh, my! Pamela, you had me at “plush socks, pajamas pants, creamy soup, a good book, plenty of cats” and, “cat on your lap, looking at the window and seeing snow”. Sheer heaven! And, your sweet pepper soup looks dreamy. Must add it to our menu asap…seriously! Gorgeous photos, too. Thanks for sharing, girl!
YUMMMM-o! I love sweet peppers so I’m sure I would love this soup. Thanks for sharing!
Oh, that sounds perfect – so comfy and comfortable, especially the kitty part 😉 This soup sounds amazing!
A kitty in the lap is always a happy time! 🙂
This sounds perfect for the kind of day we’re having in NC today, cold, damp and generally yucky. But a great day to be inside with a bowl of your yummy soup! Love that photo of the pepper scraps, it looks like a piece of artwork!
Thank you! Hoping the weather brightens up a bit in NC for you!
I love soup especially when the weather starts getting cooler. This sweet pepper soup looks amazing and I love the vibrant pop of colors. I could definitely go for a big bowl of this comforting soup, thanks for sharing 🙂
Your perfect evening definitely sounds like my perfect evening 🙂 I so wish we’ll get some snow this year but I’m afraid with global warming, it’ll never be the same as we remember it from our childhood 🙁 This soup looks delicious. Love that you added rice- definitely sounds like you’ve got the start to your perfect night!
I saved snow from some of the past record breaking snowstorms in NYC, so if you need snow, I’m your girl to relive the memories! 😉
Damn, girl, why you so good to me? This looks great. The dude hates peppers but that just means more for me! (Also, I made a pretty rocking soup last night that I’m proud of. Mushroom and quinoa soup, with carrots, celery, onion, spinach and a little kale. So hearty and delicious. I love me some soup!)
That soup sounds delicious Francine!
Pinned! Could this be any easier? 100% making this soup!
Enjoy Davida!
That sounds like a perfect evening to me too! I look forward to the first snow like I look forward to Christmas morning.
I love the color the soup looks so delicious; I have already put my Christmas pajamas on.. Great for cozy weather.. 🙂
It’s never too early for Christmas pajamas!
Our pepper plant only quit a couple days ago … we have a TON on our counter. This would be perfect for lunch today! Thanks Pamela! It looks incredibly creamy and comforting. And your description of the perfect evening truly sounds perfect to me, too!
I love sweet pepper soup. Great idea to add rice to it to make it hearty and more filling. It looks amazing.
Oh brother…that reads like a real winner…will by trying soon…thx
If soup looked so good, I could eat it everyday. I really really like how you’ve added a bit of rice to the soup. I am a big fan of rice, and need at least a little bit everyday, so you definitely got my vote for this yummy dish.
A wonderful soup that I just made & both my husband & I love it so much! The added jalapeno pepper & red pepper flakes make the soup come alive,…woehoe!
Glad you liked it Sophie!
Pamela, such a pretty and tasty soup…I never thought in making soup with the sweet peppers…
Hope you are enjoying your week 😀
This soup sounds exactly what I need right now to beat this cold!
Bummer to hear you’re sick Nicole, wishing you well!
Love soup!! It’s not even really cold here yet but I’m still in a soup mood lately 🙂
pepper soup is my absolute favourite – i love this recipe! and your photography is so lovely as well 🙂
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I love soup too – I would eat it all the time if my husband would : ) And your perfect evening does sound perfect. Except for me it would be my snuggly little beagle instead!
A beagle sounds like a nice lap partner too. 🙂
I could totally eat THIS soup every meal! Looks divine! I found ya on FB too, btw =)
Thank you!
Sometimes I wish it would snow for a day.. and then melt just so I could celebrate the exact day you described… exact I would have a dog involved 🙂 Soup looks great.
A pup would be a great soup partner too Laura! 🙂
Yes, I too could eat soup at every meal. I just love it. Soup year-round. I don’t even need the snow. I don’t like snow – or being cold. Maybe that’s why I love soup. It keeps me so warrrrmmmm!
Your idea of a perfect evening sounds idyllic to me! As does this soup. So comforting!
I loooooooooooooove soup. I feel better just thinking about soup. And this one sounds gorgeous! Although, I’ve never had it with rice before, usually just some bread (sourdough is my favourite with soup) but I’ll give the rice a try next time 😉
Sourdough sounds delicious with it too! YUM!
Oh my gosh, I love love love soup, and I am always looking for new veggie soup recipes. I’m sure we’ll be eating a lot of this as long as the CSA peppers hold out.
WHat a beautiful color this soup has!! Can beat the flavor of fresh peppers!!
I am definitely soup-obsessed as well! And the thought of all your homegrown sweet peppers in this soup definitely has me drooling and craving comfort!
Oh man, this look fabulous. I’ve been absolutely dying for soup lately, since it’s been so dreary here. This would hit the spot!
So colorful and pretty!!! LOVE that very first pepper photo. I am so glad soup weather has finally shown up here in NC!
Hey girl! I love red pepper soup and any sort of soup really. I’m a total cozy gal as well. I love coming home when it’s cool, turning on the gas fireplace, (can’t have wood burning fire places out here Cali) slipping on my slippers and making soup and popovers. The family and I will eat in front of the fireplace and it’s just perfect. We actually did that last night as it was our first cool night of the season. 🙂 xoxo, Jackie
That sounds like the perfect evening Jackie!
So lucky you had peppers growing in your garden and such brilliant color to this fall-inspired soup. I gave up on a vegetable patch here. All the critters and deer raid it. Happy weekend and going to read your fall container gardening post.
Sorry to hear about those critters, if you were closer I would throw you some peppers! Hope you had a great weekend!
I love a good soup too but never seem to make it enough. This recipe looks great for a cold and wet fall weekend, as predicted here. Thanks for this one!!!
This soup and I would be easy lovers!!! I must have it!
Beautiful colours here, Pamela! Such a light and flavourful soup for early autumn.
I LOVE the pictures in this post! So bright, colourful and enticing. The soup sounds gorgeous. I am a big fan of vegetable soups and the addition of the chili and thyme sounds amazing. Making this soon Pam my dear! xx
I do love soup!! And when it’s as easy as this I am totally in!
I covet that placemat (and the soup of course). I diet plant any sweet peppers this year. 🙁
Thanks Debra! It was a lucky Target find on sale!
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Soups are lovely whether it’s creamy or brothy or tea-based! These peppers look gorgeous!
That sounds like a perfect evening to me too, especially the soup and cat on the lap parts. Your soup looks incredibly delicious and I love the picture of the pepper scraps. You are lucky to have your own peppers. Those red bell peppers can get really pricey!
Best thing about this season? SOUPS! This looks so delish 🙂
Me me me! I love soups. I can eat them all year around even on a hot day, that’s how much I love them. 🙂 I love sweet pepper soups. I bet they’re amazing since the peppers came from your garden. YUM!
I love soups, especially colorful ones like this one!
Amazing!!!!! That picture you created in my head about the perfect setting for having soup refuses to go away!!!! Striped socks and pajama pants? I’m in! This soup is soooooo DELICOUS! It’s like a complete meal with the addition of rice! Loving it! 🙂
i’m obsessed with soup myself…and you’re so lucky to have such a plentiful garden!
I absolutely adore sweet peppers and it looks like i would adore this soup!
Yes I love soup!
It is soup season, so I need to start collecting recipes and bring out that old crockpot!
Oh, gosh, does this sound amazing!!! What a gorgeous AND delicious soup. Pinning!
I love soup at any time of the year, this sweet pepper soup looks vibrant and delicious.
I could eat soup every lunch and dinner too! I just love it. I never ever think to make a pepper soup and it just looks so good! I always do squash soups…time to switch it up, I gotta make a little pepper soup!
I love soup too! Especially creamy soup! I wish it would get slightly colder so I could get more in the soup-making mood.
***I have the plush socks, the pajamas pants, creamy soup, a good book, plenty of cats***
OooooooooMGOSH, you are a girl after my heart <3
& the soup looks delightful, too.
Hahaha, glad you liked that. 🙂
Pamela, I can not wait to make this amazing soup. I’ve actually been looking for a creative pepper soup …and I wasn’t in the mood to create one myself. (= Pinning!
Speaking of snow, we had our biggest snow storm a week before Halloween last year. Instead of building a huge snowman….we built a huge witch head! The wart and all! It was pretty cool. But, even without the snow coming early…I’m still making this soup!
I want to see pictures of this snow witch, it sounds amazing! 🙂
If I don’t like thyme do you know a good substitute I could use in this soup?
Oregano would work great too!
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