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Summer Vegetable Soup with Yellow Squash and Zucchini

ByMandi July 4, 2024July 30, 2024

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This summer vegetable soup with zucchini and yellow squash is loaded with seasonal veggies and absolutely scrumptious.

A bowl of summer vegetable soup with zucchini, yellow squash, and red wine.

I love making this soup in the summer when gardens are loaded with zucchini and yellow squash. Even if you don’t grow a garden, someone you know is trying to give away squash.

It’s a running joke in the South that you can’t leave your car unlocked during zucchini season. Someone will put a bag of zucchini in it!

This summer vegetable soup gets its robust flavor from seasonal veggies, a long simmer, plenty of herbs, and a bit of red wine. It’s flavorful and filling yet still very light.

Enjoy it as a light lunch or dinner on a hot day. Or serve it as a first course. Pair it with a green salad and fresh bread for a hearty meal.

Ingredients

Carrots, onions, bell pepper, celery, zucchini, yellow squash, garlic, crushed tomatoes, red wine, chicken broth, olive oil, basil, and oregano arranged for soup making.

Sauté onions, carrots, celery, bell peppers, and garlic in olive oil to add flavor and depth to this light and healthy soup.

Add red wine, crushed tomatoes, chicken broth, oregano, and basil to create a flavorful broth.

Add fresh zucchini and yellow summer squash (crookneck squash) to simmer at the end. This abundant summer squash shines in this fresh and aromatic summer soup.

Variations

Make it vegan: Use vegetable broth instead of chicken broth to make it vegan.

If you don’t have red wine: Use ½ cup of red wine vinegar instead of red wine.

If you don’t have fresh garlic: Use ½ teaspoon of garlic powder instead of fresh garlic cloves.

Use fresh or home-canned tomatoes.

How to Make it with Fresh Tomatoes

Do you grow tomatoes in your garden? You can use a quart of home-canned tomatoes instead of store-bought crushed tomatoes.

I like to pulse home-canned tomatoes in a food processor before adding them to the soup. If you don’t have a food processor, dump the jar into a mixing bowl and use a potato masher to crush them.

Or, use 2 pounds of fresh tomatoes. Blanch them in boiling water and place them in an ice water bath. Slip off the skins and discard or compost them. Then, chop the tomatoes.

Instructions

Diced onion, carrot, celery, and bell pepper on a cutting board.

Sauteing diced vegetables in a Dutch oven.

Heat the olive oil over medium heat in a large Dutch oven or stockpot. Then, add the onions, carrots, celery, and bell pepper.

Sauté the veggies until the become translucent and aromatic.

Adding minced garlic to a pot of vegetables.

Stirring red wine into a pot of vegetables.

Then, add the garlic and cook for 1 more minute.

Go ahead and add the red wine and turn the heat to high. Let it cook for about a minute.

Then, add the crushed tomatoes, broth, basil, and oregano.

A pot of red wine vegetable soup simmering.

A pot of soup covered with a mesh splash guard.

Bring it to a boil. Then, turn the heat to medium and let it simmer uncovered for 1 hour.

A mesh splashguard will help contain the mess.

Zucchini and yellow squash cut into cubes.

Adding zucchini and yellow squash to a pot of vegetable soup.

Next, add the zucchini and yellow summer squash. Give it a stir and let it simmer for 20 more minutes.

Ladling summer vegetable soup from a pot.

Looks delicious!

Ladle it into bowls and serve.

A spoonful of summer vegetable soup with zucchini, yellow squash, and red wine.

Yum!

Storage, Reheating, and Freezing

Store in the fridge in a covered container for up to 4 days.

Reheat in a microwave-safe bowl or gently warm in a small pot on the stovetop.

Freeze in a freezer-safe container or vacuum seal for up to 4 months. Thaw in the fridge, then reheat and serve.

Serving Tips

Serve this flavorful soup as a light lunch or dinner on a summer day.
Or serve it as a first course or appetizer.
Serve it with a salad and bread for a heartier meal. Try it with 5 minute arugula salad and cheddar bay biscuits!
Make this in the summer when there is a surplus of squash and zucchini. If you live in the South, you know what I mean!

More Summer Veggies to Try

Did you try this easy summer vegetable soup? Let me know in the comments!

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Mandi

Mandi

Wife, mama, nature lover, and food enthusiast.