Soups

🇮🇷Iran

Ab doogh khiar

آب دوغ خیار

Chilled yoghurt soup loosened with water and filled with bread, walnuts, raisins, cucumber and fresh herbs.

🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

Abajao

Abajao is an Andalusian bread-and-vegetable soup from Arcos de la Frontera, thickened with garlic and a poached egg.

🇬🇧Wales, United Kingdom

Aberaeron Broth

Aberaeron broth is a Welsh coastal soup of lamb, bacon, potatoes, leeks, and stock.

🇮🇷Iran

Abgoosht

آبگوشت

Lamb, chickpeas and potato cooked in a stone crock; the broth is poured off and drunk with bread, and the solids are pounded to a paste and eaten after.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Abula

Àbùlà

A Yoruba combination of gbegiri bean soup, ewedu jute leaf soup and obe ata pepper stew, served with amala, a southwestern Nigerian signature meal.

🇬🇭Ghana

Abunuabunu

Green soup of cocoyam or amaranth leaves blended and cooked with palm oil, pepper and fish into a thick, dark broth.

🇨🇲Cameroon

Achu and Yellow Soup

Achu

Pounded cocoyam served as a smooth white mound with a hole in the middle filled with yellow palm-oil soup emulsified with limestone and spiced with country onion.

🇮🇹Tuscany, Italy

Acquacotta

A rustic Tuscan-Maremma vegetable broth poured over stale bread and topped with a poached egg and Pecorino. The name means 'cooked water'.

🇳🇬Calabar, Nigeria

Afang Soup

Afang

Shredded afang leaf and waterleaf cooked with palm oil, periwinkle, dried fish and meat into a dark, dense soup.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Afia Efere

Efik white soup made without palm oil, with meat or fish, pepper and fragrant spices.

🇵🇪Peru

Aguadito de Pollo

Chicken and rice soup with cilantro, ají, corn, and peas. A vibrant green, hearty soup often served at celebrations.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Aguaji

Aguají

A Dominican soup of green plantains and salt herring or fish, cooked into a thick, savory broth.

🇨🇴Bogotá, Colombia

Ajiaco Santafereño

Bogotá's signature soup: chicken and three varieties of potatoes simmered with guasca herb, served with corn, capers, cream, and avocado. A highland classic.

🇭🇷Zagreb, Croatia

Ajngemahtec

In Zagreb, Ajngemahtec is beef-and-root-vegetable soup with vermicelli.

🇸🇮Prekmurje, Slovenia

Aleluja

Aleluja is a Prekmurje soup made from dried turnip peel simmered in a light, gently sour broth.

🇵🇹Alentejo, Portugal

Alentejo Gaspacho

Gaspacho alentejano

A chunky Alentejo cold soup of torn bread, tomato, cucumber, pepper, garlic, olive oil, vinegar, and water.

🇲🇹Malta

Aljotta

Fish broth built on the bones and heads of small rockfish with garlic, tomato, marjoram and rice or vermicelli, sharpened with lemon.

🇦🇹Vienna, Austria

Alt-Wiener Suppenhuhn (Old Vienna-Style Chicken Soup)

Alt-Wiener Suppenhuhn is a clear Viennese broth built from a poached hen, root vegetables, parsley and fine noodles.

🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

Andalusian Citrus Fish Soup

Caldillo de perro

Andalusian Citrus Fish Soup, locally caldillo de perro, poaches hake in a garlic-and-olive-oil broth brightened with bitter orange.

🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

Andalusian Onion and Almond Soup

Cebollada con almendras

Cebollada con almendras is an Andalusian soup in which onions and almonds cook together into a savoury, textured bowl.

🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

Andalusian Picadillo Soup

Sopa de picadillo

Sopa de picadillo is an Andalusian chicken broth with minced meat, ham, egg, and noodles.

🇦🇮Anguilla

Anguillian Callaloo Soup

Callaloo Soup

A creamy soup made from callaloo leaves, often with coconut milk, okra, pumpkin, hot red pepper, herbs, garlic, and onion; sometimes includes crab meat or salted cod; rich in iron; an Anguillian soup.

🇮🇹Parma, Italy

Anolini

Anolini in brodo

Parma's small filled pasta traditionally served in rich broth for holidays and important family meals.

🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

Antequera Porra

Porra antequerana

A thick cold bread-and-tomato soup from Antequera, Malaga, denser than gazpacho, garnished with jamon, hard-boiled egg, or tuna.

🇵🇹Algarve, Portugal

Arjamolho

Arjamolho is a Portuguese soup from Algarve, built around a seasoned broth and the region’s staple ingredients.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Asa Shorba

ዓሣ ሾርባ

An Ethiopian-style fish soup, fragrant with garlic, ginger and warm spices. A lighter alternative to richer fish stews and a wonderful fasting-season dish.

🇧🇳Penang, Brunei

Asam Laksa

亚参叻沙

Penang sour fish-based noodle soup with mackerel, tamarind, and pineapple, tangy tamarind balance with fishy depth.

🇮🇷Ardabil, Iran

Ash-e Doogh

آش دوغ

Ardabil soup built on doogh, thickened with rice and chickpeas and heavy with mint and herbs, eaten hot or cold.

🇮🇷Iran

Ash-e jo

آش جو

Pearl barley, beans, herbs and yoghurt simmer together into a thick Iranian barley soup finished with fried mint.

🇮🇷Iran

Ash-e Reshteh

آش رشته

Thick soup of noodles, chickpeas, beans, lentils and herbs finished with kashk, fried mint and crisped onion and garlic.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Atama Soup

Efik and Ibibio palm-fruit soup with bitter atama leaves, meat or seafood and aromatic spices.

🇦🇲Armenia

Aveluk Soup

Ավելուկի ապուր

Wild mountain sorrel, dried and plaited into ropes, boiled with lentils, walnut and garlic into a dark, sour soup.

🇬🇷Greece

Avgolemono

Αυγολέμονο

Greek egg-lemon sauce or soup: whisked eggs and lemon juice tempered into broth, silky and tangy. Used as a sauce for dolmades and meatballs, or as a chicken soup, a national staple.

🇵🇹Portugal

Açorda

Plain bread, garlic and coriander soup, the base of seafood açorda.

🇵🇹Alentejo, Portugal

Açorda de bacalhau

Bread, garlic and cod soup from Alentejo.

🇵🇹Alentejo, Portugal

Açorda à Alentejana

Açorda à Alentejana is a Portuguese soup from Beja District, built around a seasoned broth and the region’s staple ingredients.