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How to Freeze Soup

Your complete guide on how to freeze soup from the best soups to freeze to what containers to use. Plus a ton more tips and tricks.
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Author Tracy

Ingredients

  • Soup for freezing

Instructions

Cool

  • Cool your soup to room temperature before freezing.

Label and Date

  • Label and date your soup and make a note of any ingredients and their amounts to add back to the soup after reheating.

Freeze

  • Jars and plastic storage containers can go right into your freezer. If using freezer bags, stack them on a flat surface like a cutting board or small baking sheet and freeze until solid. Once frozen solid, you can stand the bags of soup upright and file them in wherever they'll fit.

Defrost

  • Defrost soup overnight in the fridge. If using a disposable freezer bag, it’s always smart to put your soup on a baking tray or in a large bowl just incase it was punctured at all in the freezer so you don’t end up with soup leaking everywhere.

Reheat

  • Reheat defrosted soup in the microwave or gently on the stove. Don’t try to microwave frozen soup unless it’s as a last resort. The amount of microwave time needed to reheat frozen soup will seriously overcook most ingredients in the soup.
  • Cook and add any ingredients that you omitted back to the soup like heavy cream or pasta.
  • Serve and enjoy!

Notes

For single servings in freezer bags, you can also place them in a bowl of warm water, and they will defrost in about 15 minutes.
For quicker defrosting with most other containers, place the container of soup in a bowl/sink of warm water for about 5 minutes until the sides have melted enough for the frozen soup to slip out of the container. Dump the frozen soup in a pot and melt/reheat the soup very gently over medium heat.