Simple One Pot Paleo Zucchini Soup

Learn how to make this simple one-pot paleo zucchini soup that is healthy and delicious.

This simple one-pot paleo zucchini soup can be served with your favorite loaf of fresh-baked einkorn sourdough bread or serve cold like a gazpacho.

It's delicious either way.

This recipe is a family favorite for us. Perfect for busy weeknights because it's a really simple recipe with minimal ingredients. You can make it in a crockpot, which likely means it can be made in an Instant Pot too.

Top it with fresh chopped basil or basil oil and croutons, this hearty soup is sure to become a staple soup recipe in your house as well. With a change of one ingredient, it quickly becomes vegetarian and vegan friendly. So many options with this soup-make a batch and let me know what you think!

Soups are a favorite meal here in our household. While some recipes require more time, ingredients, and involvement to make and master, this soup is easy, has minimal ingredients, and can be made quickly when you are short on time.

Quick and easy silkened zucchini soup is a favorite for us because of all those things I mentioned. So let's dive into this delicious recipe and you'll see for yourself just how easy it is!

How to make the one pot zucchini soup video

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Tips when making this paleo zucchini soup

• Make it in a crockpot. Yes, this delicious soup can be made in a crockpot! Woo hoo!! If you know me at all you know how much I adore my crockpot. I would definitely say that my crockpot is in the top 5 of my kitchen essentials. We're what you might call "besties" at this point in our relationship.

• Even though I stay at home all day with my kids, that doesn't mean I want to be in the kitchen all day preparing food. Am I right?

So if you are wanting to try this recipe in your crockpot, add all the ingredients, give it a good stir, set it, and forget it! Then when you come home from a long day at the office or romp in the woods, all you'll need to do is puree and serve.

Yes-it's really that simple.

For the video tutorial I did for this soup recipe, I used my enameled cast iron pot. Because, well, did you really want to watch a video of me staring at my crockpot for 6-10 hours? Although that would be pretty funny and yet frightfully boring.

• Make the paleo zucchini soup in an instapot. I'm certain this recipe could be made in an Instant Pot as well. I'm newer to the Instant Pot craze. Don't misunderstand me, I've been cooking meals in a pressure cooker for years. But the Instant Pot is a whole new gadget. With all its functions and features, I'm certain by the end of the year we'll have a fling going. We don't have the same relationship as my crockpot and I do though-yet.

For this recipe, as well as other silkened soup recipes, an immersion blender really is a game-changer and worthwhile investment. Makes for less clean-up as you can puree your soup directly in the pot and serve.

No transferring to a blender or food processor and then back into the pot. It's for sure not a necessary kitchen tool, but we are happy to have one around and it gets used a lot. We make our own mayonnaise and it makes that so quick and easy. I'll post that recipe later.

Variations for the one-pot zucchini soup

This soup can easily be made a vegetarian soup or vegan soup.

Replace the chicken stock for vegetable stock and obviously omit the crumbled bacon as a topping.

Tools you'll need to make this soup recipe

• Stock pot, crockpot or instant pot.
• Immersion blender, blender or food processor.
• Cutting board
• Knife
• Measuring Spoons.

Ingredients for the silkened zucchini soup

• (5) large green zucchini
• (1) can organic coconut milk or coconut cream. I believe these are 13.5 oz cans. The coconut cream is a smaller can since its condensed.
• (1) large yellow or white onion. Doesn't really matter. Both tasted the same to me.
• 2 Tablespoons of the oil of your choice (avocado, olive, coconut). I typically use coconut oil but any oil will work. If you don't happen to have any of these oils on hand, butter is great too. If you are making this recipe in a crockpot, or doing the dump and go method in a crockpot, you won't need any oil or butter since you won't be sautéing anything.
• 1 Tablespoon ground ginger powder.
• 1 Tablespoon garlic powder OR 3-4 cloves of fresh minced garlic.
• (4) cups of chicken stock, bone broth or vegetable stock. Use whatever you have on hand. If making the vegetarian or vegan option, obviously use vegetable stock.
• Salt and pepper to taste.
• Bread of your choice (to serve with it)
• Fresh chopped basil (optional topping).
• Cooked bacon crumbles (optional topping).

How to make one pot zucchini soup

1. Get out your stock pot or crockpot. If you're using your instant pot, you'll have to wing it since I've yet to make this recipe in my instant pot. Sorry.
2. Wash and chop zucchini into pieces. I typically half or quarter my zucchini and then chop. The smaller the pieces the faster this will cook. Obviously if you are doing this in a crock pot, time is not of the essence so rough chop is fine. I have just found that its easier when it comes to the puree step to have small pieces as well.
3. Peel and chop your onion into pieces as well. Same principal. Smaller pieces will cook faster and bee easier and faster to puree when we get to that step.
4. Turn on stove top to medium or medium hight heat and allow stock pot to get hot. Add 2 tablespoons of the oil of your choice to your stockpot and allow to melt.
5. When the oil is melted, add the onions and chopped zucchini to the pot. Allow to brown and get tender and translucent-stirring occasionally. Watch carefully if stove setting is medium\high heat to prevent burning. If you are wanting the quick version, skip this step and just dump all the ingredients in and give it a good stir. Browning just adds more flavor but not really enough to notice.
6. When vegetables are cooked and tender, add 4 cups of the broth of your choice.
7. Add 1 can of coconut milk (or coconut cream), 1 Tablespoon ginger powder, 1 Tablespoon garlic powder (or 3-4 cloves fresh minced garlic).
8. If you have opted to skip the browning step, cook all ingredients on medium to medium high heat until vegetables are cooked and soft. If they are falling apart, even better.
9. Once everything is cooked, its time to get out your immersion blender, blender or food processor. TIP: if you are going to use an immersion blender and puree immediately, make sure that you are starting off on the lowest speed setting and that your immersion wand is all the way to the bottom of your pot or crockpot. This will prevent the hot soup from splattering everywhere and leaving you with some nice burn marks as well as messy clothes. Don't ask me how I know this. But ouch is all I'm gonna say to that.
10. Turn your speed setting on your immersion blender down to the lowest and slowest setting. Yes, I know I just said that but its important enough and worth repeating.
11. Place wand of your immersion blender all the way to the bottom of your stock pot and turn on. You can now slowly turn up the setting and begin to puree the soup.
12. Puree soup until you have no visible large pieces and its silky smoothe.
13. Add salt and pepper to taste. At this point you can also add more garlic and or ginger powder as well. Thats the great the thing about this soup, apart from the obvious speed at which you can make it. You can customize it to your liking.
14. If you've added salt and pepper and or more ginger or garlic powder, blend again to incorporate.
15. Top and serve. As previously mentioned, this soup is great hot or cold. I personally don't love cold soups, but my husband does.

This soup really is that easy. See? Told ya. You can thank me later. Now go make some to enjoy as well.

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• Cast iron stock pot 

• Kitchenaid Immersion Blender

• All Clad Crockpot

• Wooden Measuring Spoons

• Coconut Cream (optional) 

• Teakhaus Cutting Board

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