Plus, other ways to improve thin, sad soup.

This simple, clever soup-thickening hack that’s never occurred to us before.

A poster inReddit’s cooking forumtells an all-too-familiar tale.

Two bowls of creamy mushroom soup with sliced mushrooms and parsley on a rustic wooden tray

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Other Effective Ways to Thicken Soup

Dont have instant mashed potatoes on hand?

Here are other (relatively easy) ways to thicken soup.

This will thicken the texture by way of aeration without adding anything extra.

Add Starchy Ingredients

Addingriceor lentils, for instance, will seriously beef up a lackluster soup.