A light and warming carrot and celery soup. Mildly sweet from the carrot, this vegan soup is low-fat, healthy and perfect for dunking freshly baked bread into.

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I just love a good bowl of simple soup such as vegan white bean soup. Don’t you?
Sometimes a light soup is exactly what your body needs. This carrot and celery soup is a clear soup using inexpensive ingredients with a mildly sweet taste.
I find that a carrots and celery recipe just can’t ever go wrong, the union of these two vegetables are perfect.
I like to make this soup whenever I need something warm, a light meal, or feeling under the weather.
Although, this easy vegan soup can be made anytime just like my gluten free tomato soup.
😋Why you’ll love this recipe
- Easy to make, ready in 30 minutes
- Only one pot needed
- It’s healthy, light on the gut and tastes great
- Caters for specialty diets; vegan, gluten free, nut free, dairy free, grain free.

🥘Ingredient Notes
Notes on some of the ingredients, the full list of ingredients and their measurements can be found in the recipe card below.
Celery - only select plump light green celery this will yield a lighter taste and less bitterness.
Ginger - use fresh ginger for best peppery taste
Carrots in soup are wonderful. You don’t need to peel the carrots, so long as they are cleaned well.
Check out my delicious vegetable borscht recipe featuring carrots.
Water - 6 cups of water are used to make this soup
🔪Step by Step Guide
Here’s how to make carrot and celery soup
Step 1 - In a large pot, heat up olive oil on med-high heat and add onion. Sweat until semi-translucent.
Add carrot and celery, stir through the onion and sweat for another five minutes with the lid on.
Step 2 - Add water, garlic, ginger, thyme and salt and bring to a boil.
Turn the heat down to med-low and cook until all veggies are tender. Serve warm.
💡What to serve with?
This vegan vegetable soup is delicious to enjoy with freshly baked bread or damper.
Or for a very special bread, try my fresh oregano bread scrolls.
Serving this soup as a starter, try vegan shepherds pie, vegan vegetable and nut rice, Maqlouba (upside-down rice), gluten free vegan lasagna or even vegan mushroom pasta.
Or for something more fun try my vegan sausage rolls, which are made with real vegetables.
💭Pro Tips
Use a bottom heavy pot* to avoid contents from burning.
Cut the celery, carrot, and onion as uniformly as possible, this creates an aesthetically pleasing soup and even cooking.
Whilst sweating the onion, carrot, and celery is recommended as it makes them sweeter, you do not need to do this. You can just throw everything into the pot and cook through, saving time.
If you decide to use different colored carrots, note that this may change the color of this soup

🍳Variations
This soup can be used as a base soup to add some of your favourite ingredients
Make this an oil free soup. Simply use a couple of tablespoons of water to sweat the onions in rather than olive oil.
I do this when I feel like I need to cleanse, I also omit the salt too. If you're interested in cleansing, check out my 369 Cleanse review
This soup can be made smooth by using an immersion blender* to blend all the ingredients together
Water and salt can be replaced with vegetable stock, taste testing is recommended.
Add freshly squeezed lemon juice for a little bit of sourness
🥘Related Recipes
If you’re looking for another recipe with carrots in soup, try this pumpkin and carrot soup or a soup using celery carrot and onion try my Lebanese lentil soup recipe. It’s one of my all-time favorite soups, it won’t disappoint.
Or give my filling and wholesome vegan potato and leek soup. These next four are delicious and oil-free low fat potato soup or vegan broccoli soup, spicy cauliflower soup (this one is super spicy) or sweet potato and pumpkin soup
Otherwise, a hearty meal to try is this spinach chickpea curry or big flavored Asian brussel sprouts.
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Janelle x

Carrot and Celery Soup (Easy + Vegan)
Ingredients
Instructions
- In a large pot, heat up olive oil on med-high heat and add onion. Sweat until semi translucent. Add carrot and celery, stir through the onion and sweat for another five minutes with the lid on.
- Add water, garlic, ginger, thyme and salt and bring to a boil. Turn the heat down to med-low and cook until all veggies are tender. Serve warm.
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Notes
- Use a bottom heavy pot to avoid contents from burning.
- Cut the celery, carrot and onion as uniformly as possible, this creates and aesthetically pleasing soup and even cooking.
- Whilst sweating the onion, carrot and celery is recommended as it makes them sweeter, you do not need to do this. You can just throw everything into the pot and cook through, saving time.
- If you decide to use different coloured carrots, note that this may change the colour of this soup
Nutrition
N.B., nutrition info is an estimate based on an online nutrition calculator. This will vary based on the specific ingredients you use.
Carl
I made this for my family last night and we all enjoyed it. I started by weighing out onions, carrots and celery 2:1:1 to make a proper mirepoix. As noted above, this step adds about 10 minutes to the total time, but it also made for a lively and delicious soup. For the last minute of sautéing the mirepoix I threw in the garlic, ginger, and a generous teaspoon of Italian seasoning. I didn't have vegetable broth in the pantry, and wasn't going to go with water, so used unsalted chicken broth instead. Marlena's suggestion of a squirt of lime juice was a great addition! Once the broth was up to a boil I added the rest of the veggies, a diced sweet potato, a can of drained and rinsed chickpeas, and a small can of chicken meat. I simmered the soup for 10-12 minutes to get the carrots and potato chunks al dente, salted and peppered to taste, and served it.
Talia
I discovered that this soup is great for helping me lose weight. I eat normal throughout the day and have this for dinner. I don’t feel bloated in the mornings and I have a big portion to keep me full. It might not have been intended for weight loss, but I like it. Sometimes I might add chili too
Rileigh
This is a good base for a soup and has an amazing aroma, but definitely needs some spicing up. Not very flavorful and very very sweet. Easy to make and use as a base for something though!
Mark Waterhouse
Made this however instead of water used a Laska stock base.
Came out spicy and hearty, definitely recommended.
Chris Stones
Nice clear instructions, mine looks ok so far. Its still simmering but looks pretty good.
Janelle Hama
Thank you Chris, hope you enjoyed this light soup 🙂
s cook
what is EV00 listed as an ingredient in the celery soup?
Janelle Hama
Extra virgin olive oil
Paula
Delicious! I needed to find a recipe to use up the celery, carrots and vegetable broth (used instead of water) in my fridge. Will definitely make again.
Janelle Hama
I just love that feeling of using up all the produce! The veggie broth is great idea!
Thank you Paula 🙂