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🥣 Soup Recipes

Hearty, nourishing soups - from Persian Ash Reshteh to Moroccan Harira, Turkish Mercimek to Greek Avgolemono. Warmth in every bowl.

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Bulgarian · Soups
Bulgarian Tarator (Таратор) — Cold Yogurt Cucumber Soup
Tarator is Bulgaria’s beloved chilled yogurt soup, made with cucumber, garlic, dill, walnuts, and sunflower oil. It is a summer staple often served before grilled kebapche or beside shopska salad.
15 min 4 245 cal

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Tanzanian · Soups

Mtori (Mtori) — Tanzanian Banana-Beef Soup

Mtori is a nourishing Chagga soup from Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro region, made by simmering beef with ndizi mbichi, or green cooking bananas. The bananas are mashed into the broth until the soup turns creamy, savory, and deeply comforting.

175 min 6 510 cal

Nauryz Kozhe — Seven-Ingredient Kazakh Spring Soup - authentic kazakh recipe

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Kazakh · Soups

Nauryz Kozhe (Наурыз көже) — Seven-Ingredient Kazakh Spring Soup

Nauryz kozhe is the ceremonial Kazakh soup of Nauryz, built around seven symbolic elements for abundance and renewal. This version uses rich sorpa, kazy, grains, and tangy dairy for a festive spring table.

175 min 6 475 cal

Khao Poon — Lao Coconut Curry Rice Vermicelli Soup - authentic laotian recipe

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Laotian · Soups

Khao Poon (ເຂົ້າປຸ້ນ) — Lao Coconut Curry Rice Vermicelli Soup

Khao poon is a beloved Lao rice vermicelli soup with a fragrant red coconut broth, shredded chicken, fresh herbs, and crisp vegetables. Padaek gives the soup its unmistakably Lao depth and fermented savor.

90 min 6 585 cal

Buddha Jumps Over the Wall — Fujian Banquet Treasure Soup - authentic chinese recipe

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Chinese · Soups

Buddha Jumps Over the Wall (佛跳墙) — Fujian Banquet Treasure Soup

Buddha Jumps Over the Wall is a celebrated Fuzhou banquet soup built from superior stock, dried seafood, cured ham, poultry, and Shaoxing wine. This ethical version omits shark fin while preserving the luxurious layered aroma.

540 min 8 540 cal

Changua — Colombian Milk-and-Egg Breakfast Soup - authentic colombian recipe

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Colombian · Soups

Changua (Changua) — Colombian Milk-and-Egg Breakfast Soup

Changua is a traditional breakfast soup from Bogotá and the Cundiboyacense highlands, made with milk, water, scallions, cilantro, eggs, and calado bread. It is often served with arepa and aguapanela made from panela.

25 min 4 245 cal

Colombian Chicken and Potato Soup — Bogotá-Style Guascas Soup - authentic colombian recipe

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Colombian · Soups

Colombian Chicken and Potato Soup (Ajiaco Santafereño) — Bogotá-Style Guascas Soup

Ajiaco santafereño is Bogotá's beloved chicken, corn, and three-potato soup scented with guascas. It is served with capers, cream, avocado, and often rice or arepas for a generous Colombian family meal.

110 min 6 600 cal

Crossing-the-Bridge Rice Noodles — Yunnan Hot Broth Noodle Soup - authentic chinese recipe

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Chinese · Soups

Crossing-the-Bridge Rice Noodles (过桥米线) — Yunnan Hot Broth Noodle Soup

A Yunnan specialty from Kunming, this rice noodle soup is assembled at the table with boiling broth, thin meats, vegetables, and garnishes. The rich fat-capped broth cooks each ingredient in sequence.

195 min 4 650 cal

Arishta — Armenian Homemade Noodle Soup - authentic armenian recipe

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Armenian · Soups

Arishta (Արիշտա) — Armenian Homemade Noodle Soup

Arishta is Armenia's hand-cut noodle tradition, simmered here with lentils, chickpeas, browned onion, mint, and butter. It is a comforting home soup, often served with tonir-baked lavash and remembered alongside yogurt soups such as spas.

115 min 6 435 cal

Andean Milk-and-Egg Soup — Venezuelan Breakfast Comfort - authentic venezuelan recipe

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Venezuelan · Soups

Andean Milk-and-Egg Soup (Pisca andina) — Venezuelan Breakfast Comfort

Pisca andina is the creamy potato, milk, cheese, and egg soup of the Venezuelan Andes, eaten on cold mountain mornings. Lighter than pabellón criollo, it is often served with a warm arepa made from masarepa.

45 min 4 595 cal

Jókai Bean Soup — Smoked Pork and Tejföl Bean Soup - authentic hungarian recipe

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Hungarian · Soups

Jókai Bean Soup (Jókai-bableves) — Smoked Pork and Tejföl Bean Soup

Jókai-bableves is a robust Hungarian bean soup named for novelist Mór Jókai. Smoked pork hock, sausage, paprika roux, csipetke noodles, and tejföl make it a tavern favorite, hearty enough to stand beside gulyás and often followed by palacsinta.

185 min 6 620 cal

Kharcho — Georgian Beef, Walnut, and Sour Plum Soup - authentic georgian recipe

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Georgian · Soups

Kharcho (ხარჩო) — Georgian Beef, Walnut, and Sour Plum Soup

Kharcho is a Georgian beef soup enriched with walnut, rice, khmeli suneli, and sour plum tkemali. It is hearty, tangy, aromatic, and often served at a family table or supra-style feast.

145 min 6 505 cal

Samlor Machu Kroeung — Cambodian Sour Kroeung Beef Soup - authentic cambodian recipe

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Cambodian · Soups

Samlor Machu Kroeung (សម្លម្ជូរគ្រឿង) — Cambodian Sour Kroeung Beef Soup

Samlor machu kroeung is a Cambodian sour soup built on yellow kroeung paste, prahok, tamarind, lemongrass, galangal, and kaffir lime. This hearty version simmers beef until tender with water spinach and eggplant.

130 min 6 390 cal

Dogroma — Turkmen Mutton and Bread Broth - authentic turkmen recipe

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Turkmen · Soups

Dogroma (Dograma) — Turkmen Mutton and Bread Broth

Turkmen dograma is a hearty bowl of tender mutton, hot broth, onion, tomato, and hand-torn çörek. The name reflects the dograma technique of cutting or tearing ingredients into small pieces before serving.

175 min 6 530 cal

Romanian Tripe Soup — Creamy Sour Beef Tripe Soup - authentic romanian recipe

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Romanian · Soups

Romanian Tripe Soup (Ciorbă de burtă) — Creamy Sour Beef Tripe Soup

Ciorbă de burtă, often searched as ciorba de burta, is Romania's creamy-sour beef tripe soup. It is enriched with smântână, egg yolks, garlic, and vinegar for its signature velvety tang.

270 min 8 385 cal

Cold Beet Soup — Latvian Kefir Beet Summer Soup - authentic latvian recipe

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Latvian · Soups

Cold Beet Soup (Aukstā zupa) — Latvian Kefir Beet Summer Soup

Aukstā zupa is Latvia’s vivid summer cold beet soup, stirred with kefir, cucumber, dill, potatoes, and eggs rather than cooked. It is common on hot days and at Jāņi tables, often served with rupjmaize and wedges of Jāņu siers.

45 min 4 540 cal

Ash-e Sak — Gorgani Spinach and Lamb Ash - authentic persian recipe

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Persian · Soups

Ash-e Sak (آش ساک) — Gorgani Spinach and Lamb Ash

Ash-e Sak is a hearty Persian ash from Gorgan and Golestan, built around spinach, chickpeas, rice, and lamb. It is finished with kashk, mint oil, and a measured splash of verjuice for a tangy northern Iranian character.

175 min 6 510 cal

Fanesca — Ecuadorian Holy Week Cod and Grain Soup - authentic ecuadorian recipe

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Ecuadorian · Soups

Fanesca (Fanesca) — Ecuadorian Holy Week Cod and Grain Soup

Fanesca is Ecuador’s emblematic Semana Santa soup, a lavish bowl of bacalao, milk, peanuts, zapallo, sambo, and many grains. Families often prepare it together, serving it with egg, queso fresco, fried ripe plantain, and aji criollo.

180 min 8 896 cal

Spas — Armenian Yogurt-and-Wheat Soup - authentic armenian recipe

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Armenian · Soups

Spas (Սպաս) — Armenian Yogurt-and-Wheat Soup

Spas is a classic Armenian soup of matzoon-style yogurt, wheat berries, herbs, and a gentle onion-butter finish. It is served warm in winter or lightly chilled in summer, often with lavash at the family table.

70 min 6 238 cal

Uzbek Shurpa — Lamb and Vegetable Soup - authentic uzbek recipe

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Uzbek · Soups

Uzbek Shurpa (Шўрпа) — Lamb and Vegetable Soup

Shurpa is a generous Uzbek lamb soup served in deep bowls with large vegetables, tender meat, and fragrant broth. This qaynatma-style version is simmered gently and served with non or lepyoshka for a family table.

160 min 6 535 cal

Begova Corba — Bosnian Chicken and Okra Soup - authentic bosnian recipe

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Bosnian · Soups

Begova Corba (Begova čorba) — Bosnian Chicken and Okra Soup

Begova čorba is a classic Bosnian chicken soup enriched with dried okra, root vegetables, egg yolk, and sour cream. Often served with somun, it reflects Sarajevo’s Ottoman-influenced home and restaurant cooking.

110 min 6 335 cal

Tinolang Manok — Filipino Ginger Chicken Soup - authentic filipino recipe

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Filipino · Soups

Tinolang Manok (Tinolang Manok) — Filipino Ginger Chicken Soup

Tinolang Manok is a Filipino home-style chicken soup scented with ginger, garlic, onion, and patis. Unlike sour sinigang, it is gentle and brothy, with green papaya and malunggay leaves for a clean, nourishing finish.

65 min 6 340 cal

Gaeng Som — Thai Sour Curry with Fish and Vegetables - authentic thai recipe

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Thai · Soups

Gaeng Som (แกงส้ม) — Thai Sour Curry with Fish and Vegetables

Gaeng Som is a bright, coconut-free Thai sour curry built on pounded curry paste, tamarind, fish sauce, and palm sugar. This central Thai version uses fish and crisp vegetables for a light, sharp, deeply savory family meal.

60 min 4 250 cal

Ash-e Torsh — Sour Herb and Legume Soup - authentic persian recipe

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Persian · Soups

Ash-e Torsh (آش ترش) — Sour Herb and Legume Soup

Ash-e Torsh is a northern and northwestern Iranian sour soup thick with herbs, beans, lentils, rice, verjuice, and pomegranate molasses. Its balance of tartness, greens, and legumes makes it a deeply comforting family-table dish.

145 min 6 428 cal

🥣 Soup Recipes

Bulgarian Tarator (Таратор) — Cold Yogurt Cucumber Soup

Mtori (Mtori) — Tanzanian Banana-Beef Soup

Nauryz Kozhe (Наурыз көже) — Seven-Ingredient Kazakh Spring Soup

Khao Poon (ເຂົ້າປຸ້ນ) — Lao Coconut Curry Rice Vermicelli Soup

Buddha Jumps Over the Wall (佛跳墙) — Fujian Banquet Treasure Soup

Changua (Changua) — Colombian Milk-and-Egg Breakfast Soup

Colombian Chicken and Potato Soup (Ajiaco Santafereño) — Bogotá-Style Guascas Soup

Crossing-the-Bridge Rice Noodles (过桥米线) — Yunnan Hot Broth Noodle Soup

Arishta (Արիշտա) — Armenian Homemade Noodle Soup

Andean Milk-and-Egg Soup (Pisca andina) — Venezuelan Breakfast Comfort

Jókai Bean Soup (Jókai-bableves) — Smoked Pork and Tejföl Bean Soup

Kharcho (ხარჩო) — Georgian Beef, Walnut, and Sour Plum Soup

Samlor Machu Kroeung (សម្លម្ជូរគ្រឿង) — Cambodian Sour Kroeung Beef Soup

Dogroma (Dograma) — Turkmen Mutton and Bread Broth

Romanian Tripe Soup (Ciorbă de burtă) — Creamy Sour Beef Tripe Soup

Cold Beet Soup (Aukstā zupa) — Latvian Kefir Beet Summer Soup

Ash-e Sak (آش ساک) — Gorgani Spinach and Lamb Ash

Fanesca (Fanesca) — Ecuadorian Holy Week Cod and Grain Soup

Spas (Սպաս) — Armenian Yogurt-and-Wheat Soup

Uzbek Shurpa (Шўрпа) — Lamb and Vegetable Soup

Begova Corba (Begova čorba) — Bosnian Chicken and Okra Soup

Tinolang Manok (Tinolang Manok) — Filipino Ginger Chicken Soup

Gaeng Som (แกงส้ม) — Thai Sour Curry with Fish and Vegetables

Ash-e Torsh (آش ترش) — Sour Herb and Legume Soup