Ten thick, warming soups for cold nights, from French onion to Thai pumpkin. Some are blended smooth, some stay chunky, and two come with the bread already on top.

French Onion Soup
BBC Good Food
A whole kilo of onions, cooked slowly until golden, then topped with toast and melted Gruyère. It's a BBC Good Food recipe.

Thai pumpkin soup
BBC Good Food
The pumpkin roasts first, then gets blended with red curry paste and coconut milk. Squash works too. From BBC Good Food.

Split Pea Soup
BBC Good Food
A ham simmers with split peas and veg, then gets shredded back into the soup. The split peas need soaking overnight, so start the day before.

Creamy Tomato Soup
BBC Good Food
Tinned tomatoes, passata and a few potatoes for body, blended smooth. The original BBC Good Food recipe says it freezes, so make the whole pot.

Broccoli & Stilton soup
BBC Good Food
The broccoli stalks go in first so nothing's wasted, and the Stilton is stirred in at the end with a few lumps left.

Ribollita
NYT Cooking
An Italian bean and kale soup, finished in the oven under a lid of bread, red onion and Parmesan. Originally from NYT Cooking.

Clam chowder
BBC Good Food
Clams, bacon and potatoes in a creamy broth, thickened by crushing some of the potato against the pan. The recipe suggests serving it in a hollowed-out roll.

Leblebi Soup
allrecipes.co.uk
Tunisian chickpea soup with cumin, garlic and harissa. Cupboard ingredients, but the chickpeas need soaking first.

Black Bean soup
delish.com
Three tins of black beans, blended as smooth or as chunky as you like, with sour cream, avocado and lime on top. A Delish recipe.

Easy White Bean Soup
cookinglsl.com
A Bulgarian white bean soup with dried mint and summer savory. Soak the beans ahead, and after that it mostly looks after itself.