Soups

🇪🇭Western Sahara

Harira

حريرة

Tomato soup thickened with lentils, chickpeas, herbs, and sometimes vermicelli, finished with a little flour.

🇲🇦Morocco

Harira (Ramadan)

حريرة رمضان

The Ramadan version of harira, the soup that breaks the fast at sunset, served with dates and chebakia. A national and religious tradition, hearty and tangy, a Ramadan icon, a daily Iftar staple, a national dish.

🇱🇾Libya

Hasa Adas

A Libyan lentil soup, thick and warmly spiced with cumin and coriander.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Herb Soup

Heusuppe

A clear broth infused with fresh alpine herbs and meadow grasses, strained and served with cream, a Basel and Appenzell spring specialty.

🇻🇪Venezuela

Hervido de Gallina

A Venezuelan hen soup with corn, potatoes, carrots, cassava, cocoyam and pumpkin, seasoned with onions, garlic and cilantro, a rustic, hearty broth.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Hlelem

هلالم

Winter soup of hand-rolled noodle threads with chickpeas, white beans, chard and dried meat in a red broth.

🇭🇳Honduras

Honduran Bean Soup

Sopa de frijoles

Red beans boiled with pork bone, sweet pepper and coriander into a loose soup, served with rice, avocado, cheese and tortillas.

🇨🇳Sichuan, China

Hot and Sour Soup

酸辣汤

A classic Chinese soup of wood ear fungus, tofu, bamboo shoots and pork in a peppery, vinegary broth thickened with cornstarch and egg ribbons.

🇱🇹Lithuania

Hot Borscht

Barščiai

Hot beet soup served with sour cream or buttermilk, sometimes enriched with Boletus mushrooms.

🇺🇸United States

Hotel Roanoke Peanut Soup

A Virginia specialty: a smooth, creamy soup made with peanut butter, served at the historic Hotel Roanoke.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Hrachova Polevka

Hrachová polévka

Czech pea soup, often with smoked meat and croutons.

🇰🇭Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Hu Tieu Nam Vang

Hủ tiếu Nam Vang

Southern Vietnamese noodle soup with pork, shrimp, liver, quail eggs, and garlic chives in a clear pork bone broth, garnished with crispy garlic.

🇵🇪Junín, Peru

Huallpa Chupe

A Junín chicken chupe thickened with potatoes, eggs, cheese and Andean herbs.

🇨🇳China

Hulatang Pepper Soup

胡辣汤

Hulatang is a thick Henan breakfast soup built from peppery stock, flour slurry, and pieces of beef or tendon.

🇨🇳Xi'an, China

Hulutou Intestine Soup

葫芦头

Carefully cleaned pork intestine simmered in a milky bone broth over torn bread and vermicelli, seasoned with pepper and coriander.

🇩🇰Denmark

Hønsekødssuppe (Danish chicken soup)

Hønsekødssuppe

Hønsekødssuppe (Danish chicken soup) is a soup from Denmark, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇮🇸Iceland

Icelandic Fish Soup

Fiskisúpa

Creamy soup of white fish, potatoes and onions, comfort food across Iceland.

🇨🇼Curaçao

Iguana Soup

Sopi di Yuana

Sopi di Yuana is a Curaçaoan soup made with iguana, local herbs, vegetables, and garlic; include it only where current wildlife rules permit a lawful, locally available preparation.

🇯🇵Okinawa, Japan

Ikasumi jiru

イカスミ汁

Ikasumi jiru, the Okinawan squid-ink soup, is a named regional dish with a striking appearance.

🇵🇭Philippines

Ilocano Vegetable Soup

Dinengdeng

An Ilocano vegetable soup with a bagoong isda base, various vegetables, and grilled fish.

🇵🇭Iloilo, Philippines

Iloilo Noodle Soup

La Paz Batchoy

An Iloilo noodle soup with pork offal, cracklings, beef loin, and egg noodles in a rich broth.

🇷🇼Rwanda

Imitobe

Light vegetable soup made with seasonal greens, tomatoes, onions, and sometimes beans; a simple first course or light meal in Rwandan homes, using whatever the garden provides.

🇵🇪San Martín, Peru

Inchicapi

Thick Amazonian chicken soup with toasted ground peanuts, cassava, cilantro, and aromatic herbs. A nourishing 'power soup'.

🇮🇪Ireland

Irish Seafood Chowder

Anraith mara

An Irish creamy seafood soup with fish, mussels, and potatoes, a coastal and daily classic

🇭🇷Istria, Croatia

Istrian Bean Soup

Maneštra

Maneštra is an Istrian bean-and-vegetable soup with a thick, rustic body. The white, tomato-less bela maneštra is a named light version of the same pot.

🇧🇹Bhutan

Jaju

ཇ་ཇུ།

A thin milk soup with turnip or spinach leaves and a lump of butter, served alongside the hot dishes to cool the mouth.

🇦🇱Albania

Jani me Fasule

A northern Albanian stew of white beans simmered with onion, tomato and herbs until thick and spoon-tender.

🇭🇺Hungary

Jokai Bableves

Jókai bableves

Rich bean soup with smoked hock, vegetables and noodles.

🇳🇪Niger

Jute Mallow Soup

Miyan Ayoyo

A soft, mucilaginous soup of jute mallow leaves (ayoyo) cooked with meat, groundnut or palm oil, tomato, onion, and spices; smooth and slightly sticky, served with tuwo in Hausa areas of Niger.

🇨🇼Curaçao

Kadushi Soup

Sopi di Kadushi

Kadushi soup; a traditional Curaçaoan cactus soup made from the kadushi (candle cactus); cactus spines removed, peeled, and the insides ground and boiled; thickened with salted beef, salted pig's tail, dried shrimp, and clams; served with funchi; a resourceful island invention using abundant natural resources; a distinctive Curaçaoan specialty.

🇬🇹Cobán, Guatemala

Kak'ik

A Q'eqchi' Maya turkey soup from Cobán and Alta Verapaz, seasoned with achiote, coriander, tomatillos, tomatoes, and Cobanero chile.

🇬🇷Greece

Kakavia

Κακαβιά

Mixed-seafood fisherman's soup.

🇮🇩Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

Kaledo

Kaledo is the Palu beef-shin-and-marrow soup soured with tamarind and eaten with boiled cassava.

🇮🇷Iran

Kaleh joosh

کله‌جوش

Kashk, walnuts, onions and dried mint are cooked into a sharp, creamy Iranian dip-like stew eaten with bread.

🇮🇷Iran

Kalleh Pacheh

کله‌پاچه

Sheep's head and trotters boiled overnight and eaten at dawn with lemon, cinnamon and bread torn into the broth.

🇵🇰Chitral, Pakistan

Kalli

کالی

Chitrali soup of wheat flour and butter cooked with dried meat or vegetables, eaten in the mountain winter.