Soups

🇺🇦Ukraine

Kapusniak

Капусняк

Kapusniak is a Ukrainian sauerkraut soup with pork, potatoes, root vegetables, and sometimes millet.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Kapustnica

Sauerkraut soup with smoked pork, dried mushrooms, sausage and plum, thick and sour, cooked in quantity for Christmas Eve and eaten for days after.

🇵🇱Poland

Kapuśniak

A Polish sauerkraut soup with smoked pork ribs, bacon, potatoes, and marjoram, tangy and hearty. A fall and winter classic, served with bread.

🇹🇷Black Sea Region, Turkey

Karalahana çorbası

Karalahana corbasi, the Black Sea collard soup with cornmeal and beans, is a named regional soup unlike any carried Turkish soup.

🇸🇬Singapore, Singapore

Katong Laksa

Thick rice noodles cut short so the bowl can be eaten with a spoon alone, in a coconut and dried-shrimp gravy with cockles, fish cake and prawns.

🇲🇹Malta

Kawlata

Thick winter soup of cabbage, pork, sausage, beans and root vegetables cooked long enough for the pork to fall apart.

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

Kelle Pacha

Kəllə-paça

Sheep's head and trotters simmered overnight into a clear gelatinous broth, eaten at dawn with garlic vinegar and bread.

🇹🇷Turkey

Kelle Paça Çorbası

A traditional soup made from sheep head and trotters, slow-cooked until the collagen dissolves into a rich, gelatinous broth. Seasoned with garlic, vinegar, and red pepper flakes. Consumed as a winter warmer and hangover remedy, it is one of the most traditional soups in Turkey.

🇧🇾Belarus

Khaladnik

Халаднік

Cold soup of grated young beetroot and their leaves in soured milk or kefir, shocking pink, finished with dill, cucumber, hard-boiled egg and served with hot boiled potatoes on the side.

🇹🇭Thailand

Khao tom

ข้าวต้ม

Khao tom is a light rice soup of whole rice grains, commonly served for breakfast or late at night with savoury side dishes; it has a looser texture than jok.

🇬🇪Georgia

Kharcho

Харчо

A thick beef soup soured with tklapi plum leather, thickened with ground walnut and rice, and heavy with coriander, garlic and Georgian spices.

🇦🇲Armenia

Khash

Խաշ

Cow's feet boiled overnight into an unsalted, unseasoned broth, eaten at dawn in winter with garlic, dried lavash and vodka.

🇬🇪Georgia

Khashi

Ხაში

Beef tripe and trotters simmered overnight into a thick white broth, eaten at dawn with garlic, salt and a shot of chacha.

🇬🇧Scotland, United Kingdom

Kilmeny Kail

Kilmeny Kail is a Fife soup of mutton or beef with potatoes, kale, and other vegetables.

🇵🇭Naga, Philippines

Kinalas

Kinalas, the Naga City noodle soup finished with scraped beef-head meat and a dark liver sauce, is a named city dish with its own stalls.

🇮🇸Iceland

Kjötsúpa

Iceland's beloved lamb soup with root vegetables, barley, and herbs, a daily and national classic.

🇦🇹Styria, Austria

Klachelsuppe

Klachelsuppe is a Styrian pork-trotter soup thickened with root vegetables, barley or flour and sharpened with vinegar.

🇺🇸United States

Knoephla

A German-Russian dumpling soup from the Dakotas: flour dumplings in a creamy chicken-potato broth.

🇮🇩Makassar, Indonesia

Konro Soup

Sop Konro

Makassar beef rib soup with kluwek-darkened broth, rich spices, and tender beef ribs.

🇸🇮Slovenia

Korejevec

Korejevec is a Kozje soup of seasonal vegetables and grain, simmered into a light, nourishing bowl.

🇫🇲Kosrae State (Eastern FSM), Federated States of Micronesia

Kosraen Soup

Sup Usr

Sup Usr combines skipjack, pounded banana, coconut milk, and red pepper in a thick Kosraean soup served at family gatherings.

🇬🇷Greece

Kotosoupa Avgolemono

Κοτόσουπα Αυγολέμονο

Greek chicken soup with rice or pasta, finished with avgolemono (egg-lemon) sauce. A comforting, silky, tangy soup, a winter and home classic, a national staple.

🇬🇷Greece

Kreatosoupa

Κρεατόσουπα

Greek meat soup of beef or veal with vegetables, finished with avgolemono sauce. A comforting, hearty winter soup, a home and taverna classic, served with bread, silky and tangy.

🇵🇱Poland

Krupnik

A Polish barley soup with meat, vegetables, and mushrooms, hearty and thick. A rustic, filling winter soup, served with bread, a home-cooked classic.

🇹🇭Thailand

Kuay Teow Neua

ก๋วยเตี๋ยวเนื้อ

Thai beef noodle soup with tender braised beef, meatballs, and a fragrant spiced broth.

🇮🇶Najaf, Iraq

Kubbat Hamudh Shalgham

كبة حامض شلغم

Rice-dough dumplings filled with minced lamb, simmered in a sour turnip and beetroot broth with pomegranate molasses.

🇮🇱Jerusalem, Israel

Kubbeh Hamusta

קובה חמוסטה

Semolina dumplings stuffed with spiced minced meat, poached in a sour green soup of celery, chard and lemon — a Kurdish-Jewish Jerusalem speciality.

🇮🇩Central Java, Indonesia

Kudus Soto

Soto Kudus

Central Javanese buffalo meat soto with clear broth and distinct spice profile.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Kulajda

A Czech creamy mushroom soup with potatoes, dill, and poached egg, a daily and home classic

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Kurban Chorba

Курбан чорба

Lamb offal and meat boiled long with onion, paprika and mint, cooked in vast cauldrons at village saints' days and shared out to everyone present.

🇲🇹Malta

Kusksu

Broad beans and small pearl pasta simmered with onion and tomato, finished with a ġbejna and sometimes an egg.

🇨🇳China

Kway Chap

粿汁

Broad sheets of rice noodle in a light braising liquor, served alongside a bowl of pork offal, braised egg, beancurd and pork belly stewed in dark soy and star anise.

🇵🇱Lesser Poland, Poland

Kwaśnica

A highland (Podhale) sauerkraut soup with smoked ribs, bacon, and potatoes, tangy and hearty. A Tatra mountain specialty, served with bread, warming and sour.

🇦🇲Armenia

Kyalagosh

Քյալագոշ

Kyalagosh is a substantial Armenian lentil-and-yogurt soup assembled over dried lavash, with choratan or strained yogurt and fried onions added at the end.

🇲🇲Myanmar

Kyay Oh

ကြေးအိုး

Rice noodles in a clear pork broth with pork offal, minced pork balls and a whole raw egg dropped in to poach, traditionally served in a brass pot.

🇨🇿Moravian Wallachia, Czech Republic

Kyselica

Wallachian sauerkraut soup with sour cream, potatoes and sausage.