Autumn Foods: Our FAVORITE Cozy Soups, Pastas and More!

Love the autumn season! It’s the ideal time of year for comforting soups, hearty salads, hearty salads, slow-cooker classics, one-pot wonders, and some other quick and easy soothing dinner recipes that bid summer farewell. The fall season is when we wrap up indoors to escape the brisk air and eat the heartier dishes we’ve been missing all summer. These autumn foods made with in-season ingredients will win your heart.

There are so many wonderful ingredients and flavors that are associated with fall cooking, but pumpkin, in my opinion, takes the cake. The collection of great pumpkin dishes includes pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, and even pumpkin cheesecake. But you may also use butternut squash and sweet potatoes instead because they are quite similar. But a collection of Autumn recipes wouldn’t be complete without apples, cinnamon, and hearty nuts, right? Autumn-inspired foods will differ based on where you reside. Keep these recipes on hand for fall regardless of the season we are presently experiencing!

Our Favorite Autumn Foods: Try THESE 5 Soups

1. Pumpkin Soup

Whether it’s for decoration or eating, pumpkins are always in high demand during Halloween and Thanksgiving. This pumpkin soup is a certain crowd-pleaser.

Make some scrumptious curry pumpkin soup to warm you from the inside out. The addition of pumpkin puree, vegetable broth, coconut milk, and a few spices elevates this moderately spicy, buttery soup to a new level.

2. Wonton Soup

This wonton soup has everything you could possibly want in a bowl of cozy fall comfort. My image of heaven would be a bowl of delicate little wonton wrappers with pork meatballs floating in a flavorful, light broth. Make a large quantity of wontons, freeze them, and enjoy wonton soup whenever they want strikes.

3. Butternut Squash Soup: A Quintessential Autumn Food

I oscillate between liking smooth soup and chunky soup, but for this recipe, smooth soup is the only option! Have you ever baked squash for lunch? Save the leftovers and try our recipe here which offers a good flavor boost with apples and cheese. Alternately, gently sauté the vegetables all at once and let them finish cooking in the liquid. Soups are best blended with an immersion blender. Make sure to let the standing blender cool before using it.

4. Carrot Ginger Soup

Even while this energetic carrot-ginger soup is delicious on its own, adding a dollop of pesto makes it even better. If you blend carrot tops to the pesto, you get extra points. Waste not, desire not. Carrots, and all root vegetables, are truly evocative of the perfect Autumn foods.

5. Traditional Irish Colcannon Soup

One of my favorite traditions is cooking recipes that my ancestors might have cooked. One of those is my Irish side’s colcannon soup recipe! This recipe is simple, cheap, and delicious. Not to mention, if you are Vegan, you can adjust the recipe easily. Or follow our given recipe above.

Or Try These 5 Amazing Fall Salads

1. Sweet Potato Salad

This dish has some of my favorite ingredients, including roasted sweet potatoes, avocado, tender arugula, feta cheese, and a creamy tahini sauce. Serve as a side dish or as a hearty, healthful lunch on its own.

2. Farmhouse Farro Salad

This salad is still good if you’re gluten-free even though I adore adding nutty farro in fall foods like this one. It would taste just as good with cooked wild rice or quinoa.

3. Autumn Salad

Gather seasonal ingredients such as onion, baby spinach, mushrooms, radicchio, pancetta, etc. to make this simple side dish with honey & mustard dressing.

4. Butternut Squash Salad

This spicier fall salad blends sweet pomegranate arils, roasted butternut squash, and Medjool dates with earthy goat cheese. The dish is held together by an aromatic cider-date dressing.

5. Brown Butter Brussels Sprout Salad

This delicious Brussels sprout salad has all three flavors that make everything better: nutty brown butter, crispy pancetta, and salty Parmesan. This salad is great for the Thanksgiving table because of the combination of the peppery arugula and the tangy balsamic vinegar.

An Autumn Snack? Don’t Mind If I Do!

1. Cheesy Sweet Potato Nachos

In this recipe for cheesy sweet potato nachos that is lighter on calories but heavy on the flavor of vegetables, corn chips are substituted for sweet potato fries.

2. Tater Tots: Autumn Food With An American Twist

One of the most popular foods in America is the tater tot. They are adorable little deep-fried potato snacks that are typically cylinder-shaped, pillowy, and crunchy. These potato tots from damndelicious recipe are a delicious, healthy snack that are crusty on the outside and gooey on the inside.

3. Roasted Cauliflower with Lemon Zest

When I want a quick, simple side dish to complete a fall supper, I make this roasted cauliflower. I usually serve it simply with herbs & lemon zest, but it’s also delicious with sauce like romesco or tahini on top.

Delicious, Seasonal Autumn Main Courses

1. Instant Pot Pasta And Meatballs

The instant pot is fantastic because you can throw everything in, turn it on, and forget it. Make this pasta and meatball dish as soon as you come home from work. All of the ingredients, including the raw pasta, are placed directly in the pot. You get juicy, flavorful spaghetti and meatballs in no time thanks to the instant pot.

2. Hot Pot At Home

In the fall, the greatest way to spend time with your friends is to throw a small hot pot party. Me and my friends frequently do this. We prepare a small pot in the center of the table, gather the ingredients for the Chinese hot pot, and cook and talk all night. It’s the best!

3. Estofado (Spanish Beef Stew)

Cheap, easy, and comfortable — a dish that is good, filling, and simple to make. If you want to cook impressive, show-stopping dinners in a single pot, you’ll love this Spanish beef stew (Estofado) recipe from Cafe Discussion.

4. Khao Soi

A quick-filling, warm noodle soup with coconut curry and noodles. Red curry paste is essential to this recipe’s success; it’s a small shortcut that gives your khao soi an incredible flavor and speeds up cooking.

5. Apple Butternut Squash Casserole: A Delicious Autumn Sunday Dinner

This recipe from insanelygoodrecipes is certainly not a routine recipe. It has a lot of flavors thanks to the butternut squash, apples, sage, red onion,  salt, thyme, and black pepper. Oh, I forgot to add that the dish is topped with a pecan and bacon topping made with honey, cinnamon, coconut oil, and crushed cloves.

As I already stated, it is far from boring.

6. Easy Scalloped Potatoes and Ham Recipe

Scalloped potatoes have a particular place in my heart. They’re not a traditional family dish, but I find them hard to resist. The potatoes are the first of three necessary ingredients in this recipe. Due to their excellent shape retention, Yukon Gold and Russet are your best options. The garlicky cream sauce will be served next; if possible, use full-fat butter and milk. Finally, the addition of salty ham makes this recipe especially wonderful. In addition to adding color bursts, it also has a mouthwatering flavor combination.

7. Roasted Pumpkin Pasta

This dish from taste.com is overflowing with flavor and terrific addition to your menu. It has a simple yet amazing sauce prepared with Wattle Valley Chunky Roasted Pumpkin Dip. Who doesn’t love pumpkin pasta as an Autumn food?

8. Chinese Sticky Rice

Sticky rice that is both sweet and delicious and is topped with soft mushrooms (a traditional Autumn food), Chinese sausage, and juicy chicken pieces. This is the dish to prepare if you’re looking for a hearty, comforting lunch that will fill you up from the inside out. The ideal weekend culinary project, it does require a little time investment but is so worth it!

Desserts With a Fall Flavor

1. Sweet Potato Pie

Sweet potato pie is the perfect way to warm yourself on a dreary winter day. This recipe will win you over because it is simple to prepare, delicious, and a fantastic way to include sweet potatoes in your diet.

Compared to regular pies, this vegan treat has less fat because it is actually made from sweet potatoes. Its texture is very smooth and moist. The weekend is the perfect time to bake, so try it!

2. Easy Pumpkin French Toast

Fall-inspired breakfast casserole is easy to make and is bursting with flavor. Bake it the following morning after it has been chilled overnight. It’s likely to become one of your favorite fall dishes as well, in my opinion. I enjoy topping a big square with pure maple syrup and cinnamon maple butter.

3. Pumpkin Cake With Crumb Topping

This one is for you if you enjoy the cake as much as I do. The pumpkin and spices associated with it are also lovely in this cake, which is topped with an autumn-inspired crumb topping that is quite simple to prepare.

4. Apple Fritters

Donuts are tasty, but making them from scratch takes time. The dough will need to be prepared, rested, rolled and cut, rested one more, and then fried. Apple fritters, in contrast, are prepared with a donut-like dough that is gently combined with chopped apples before being fried. You don’t need to wait! I love preparing apple fritters using this recipe from Small Town Women.

5. Roasted Butternut Squash with Pecans and Cranberries

A fantastic autumn recipe, Roasted Butternut Squash topped with Pecan and Cranberries is a dish that will offer a lovely touch to any dinner table when served as a side dish. You’ll love trying this recipe from healthiersteps.

6. Pumpkin Bread Pudding with Spices

Every Autumn, my family requests this delicious dessert that also doubles as a breakfast treat: pumpkin bread pudding. The great thing about this recipe is that you can modify it as far as its fillings and toppings to make it your own. Check out our recipe here.

Bottom Line

Autumn is the best season of all. It is the time when it is both cool enough to eat warm foods and hot enough to eat cold foods. The autumn foods in this list are sure to make you want to stay home and enjoy some homemade comfort food; therefore, you can use these ideas not only to entertain but also just for your own pleasure.

Taking a chance to enjoy the company of friends, family, and loved ones while gathering around a table full of various tasty treats sounds like one of the best ways to unwind after a long day of work, or it could just be the perfect activity on its own. Having some tasty snacks or a nice hot meal with that person who makes your universe go round is something we should all make time for. What are your favorite autumn foods? We would love it if you share your thoughts in the comment section below.