Warm and hearty soup recipes

Take the edge off the chill with these warm and hearty soups. Scroll through the gallery for the best fall and winter recipes.

This Nov. 21, 2016 photo shows red lentil and chicken slow-cooker soup in New York. The soup is thick from the lentils, and fragrant with cumin and coriander. (Sarah E Crowder via AP) — **Red lentil and chicken slow-cooker soup** Lentils thicken this fragrant recipe. Small cubes of chicken are nestled throughout, and the cumin and coriander will remind you of dal. Comfort in a bowl. Find the recipe here. (Sarah E Crowder via AP)

Butternut squash soup Butternut squash soup is a fall staple, but many recipes fail to live up to their potential, ending up too sweet or with too little squash flavor plus, prepping the squash can be time-consuming and unwieldy. The solution to these problems is a Dutch oven. Find the recipe here. (Daniel J. van Ackere/America’s Test Kitchen via AP)

Daniel J. van Ackere/America’s Test Kitchen via AP

Beef Barley Soup With Mushrooms And Thyme The star of beef barley soup is a rich, intensely flavored beef stock. Make it from-scratch stock in about 2 1/2 hours thanks to a lot of browned beef (we preferred shank) and a few small bones. Find the recipe here. (Carl Tremblay/America’s Test Kitchen via AP)

Carl Tremblay/America’s Test Kitchen via AP