19 Easy Soups That Start With a Can of Beans

Whether you believe soup has a set season or, like me, think soup season is all year, there’s one thing we can surely agree on: bean soups are some of the best soups. One of the downsides of bean soups, made from scratch with dried beans, is that they can take a long time to cook. That’s arguably what makes them taste so delicious. But, let’s be honest, it can be hard to babysit a pot all day.

Luckily, we have plenty of easy bean soups that rely on one of the greatest, hardest-working pantry staples: canned beans! Each of the soups below take less than an hour to come together, with many taking 30 minutes or less, but, I promise, they taste just as good as a long simmered pot of soup made with dried beans. No matter what cans of beans are already on your shelf—from chickpeas to black beans, cannellini to butter—there’s a soup recipe here that you can (and should) make tonight.