Soups

🇨🇿Hradec–Pardubice area, Czech Republic

Kyselo (Czech sourdough soup)

Kyselo

Kyselo (Czech sourdough soup) is a soup from Hradec Králové Region, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇦🇹Carinthia, Austria

Kärntner kirchtagssuppe

Kärntner Kirchtagssuppe is a saffron-tinted festive broth enriched with beef, lamb and chicken, cream and herbs.

🇮🇶Iraq

Lablabi

لبلبي

Chickpeas boiled soft and served hot in their broth with cumin, salt and lemon, ladled into small bowls on winter streets.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Lablabi

لبلابي

Chickpeas in cumin-and-garlic broth poured over torn stale bread in a bowl, then built up with harissa, olive oil, tuna, egg, capers and pickled lemon.

🇨🇳Xinjiang, China

Lagman

Lag'mon

Lagman is a Uyghur and Central Asian noodle dish built from hand-pulled strands served with meat, peppers, onions, and tomato in a savoury broth or sauce.

🇷🇴Romania

Lamb Sour Soup

Borș de miel

Lamb meat and offal cooked with rice, carrots, onions, celery root and spring garlic in a broth soured with borș and enriched with egg and sour cream.

🇮🇩East Java, Indonesia

Lamongan Soto

Soto Lamongan

East Java chicken soup with clear turmeric broth and signature koya topping of ground garlic and shrimp crackers.

🇲🇬Madagascar

Lasopy

A vegetable soup of carrot, turnip, potato and leek pushed through a sieve, a French inheritance eaten at the start of a meal in the highlands.

🇲🇬Madagascar

Lasopy Chinoise

A Malagasy Chinese-influenced noodle soup with vegetables, broth and meat or seafood.

🇷🇴Romania

Leek Sour Soup

Ciorbă de praz

Leeks simmered with carrots and rice in a light broth soured with borș or vinegar, often enriched with smoked meat and finished with sour cream.

🇪🇭Western Sahara

Lehssa

Lehssa is a simple Sahrawi barley soup: barley is simmered in water with salt until the broth is lightly thickened and nutty.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Lentil and Chard Soup

عدس بحامض

A tangy Lebanese soup of lentils, chard or silverbeet, potatoes and lemon, seasoned with cumin and garlic.

🇷🇴Romania

Lettuce Soup with Smoked Meat

Ciorbă de salată cu afumătură

Fresh lettuce simmered with smoked pork in a borș-soured broth, finished with sour milk or cream and a handful of dill.

🇱🇷Liberia

Liberian Okra Soup

Okra Soup

A Liberian okra soup thickened by sliced okra and cooked with seafood, meat or smoked fish.

🇱🇷Liberia

Liberian Palm Butter Soup

Palm Butter Soup

Palm fruit pulp cooked with fish or meat, dried crayfish, onion, garlic, okra, and hot peppers into a thick red soup served with rice or fufu.

🇱🇷Liberia

Liberian Peanut Soup

Peanut Soup

A hot peanut soup with beef or chicken, onion, bell pepper, celery, chilli, potatoes, okra, stock, and optional dried fish, served with rice.

🇱🇷Liberia

Liberian Pepper Soup

Pepper Soup

A fiery Liberian broth of meat or fish, hot pepper, ginger and aromatic spices.

🇱🇷Liberia

Liberian Potato Greens

Potato Greens

Sweet-potato leaves cooked with fish or meat, crawfish, onion, garlic, chilli, and palm oil into a savoury soup eaten over rice.

🇱🇾Libya

Libyan Shorba

Shorba libiya

A tomato and lamb soup thickened with orzo or crushed pasta, heavy with mint and tomato paste and finished with lemon.

🇬🇭Ghana

Light Soup

Nkrakra

Thin, fiery tomato and pepper broth with goat, chicken or fish and often garden eggs blended into it.

🇧🇴Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Locro de Gallina

Thick hen soup with potatoes, corn, rice, yuca, plantains; Santa Cruz specialty, uses older hen meat for slow-cooked tenderness

🇪🇨Sierra (Andean Highlands), Ecuador

Locro de Papa

A thick Ecuadorian potato soup simmered with onion, garlic, achiote and milk, finished with fresh cheese, avocado and ají.

🇬🇧London, United Kingdom

London Particular

London Particular is thick yellow split-pea and ham soup named for London’s old pea-souper fogs.

🇺🇸United States

Long Island Clam Chowder

A Long Island clam chowder that blends tomato and cream — a bridge between Manhattan and New England styles.

🇱🇺Luxembourg

Luxembourg Split Pea Soup

Ierzebulli

Ierzebulli is Luxembourg split-pea soup with potato, leek, carrot, and Mettwurscht.

🇺🇦Lviv, Ukraine

Lviv Kapusniak

Львівський капусняк

Lviv kapusniak is a western Ukrainian cabbage soup with mushrooms, lard, meat, smoked products, and sauerkraut.

🇻🇳Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Lẩu cá linh bông điên điển (Ca Linh Fish and River Hemp Flower Hot Pot)

Lẩu cá linh bông điên điển

Lau ca linh bong dien dien, the hotpot of linh fish and sesbania flowers made only during the Mekong flood season, is a named dish with one of the hardest seasonal windows in the file.

🇻🇳Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Lẩu mắm Châu Đốc (Fermented Fish Hot Pot)

Lẩu mắm Châu Đốc

Lau mam Chau Doc, the fermented-fish hotpot with dozens of raw vegetables, is a named regional institution.

🇭🇰Hong Kong

Macaroni and Ham Soup

Tong Min

Short macaroni in clear chicken broth with ham — the breakfast half of any cha chaan teng set meal.

🇵🇹Madeira, Portugal

Madeiran Wheat Soup

Sopa de trigo

A Madeiran soup of cracked wheat with cabbage, leafy vegetables, beans, and pork or other preserved meat.

🇮🇩East Java, Indonesia

Madura Soto

Soto Madura

Madurese-style soto with thick turmeric broth, chicken or beef, and fresh garnishes.

🇬🇷Greece

Magiritsa

Μαγειρίτσα

Greek Easter soup of lamb offal, lettuce, dill, and avgolemono sauce, served after the midnight Resurrection service. A festive, tangy, savory soup, an Easter Sunday tradition.

🇮🇩Makassar, Indonesia

Makassar Soto

Coto Makassar

Traditional Makassar beef and offal soup with ground peanut-thickened broth and aromatic spices.

🇨🇳Sichuan, China

Malatang

麻辣烫

Self-served skewers and loose ingredients scooped into a basket, weighed, then cooked in numbing chilli broth and handed back as a bowl.

🇮🇩North Sulawesi, Indonesia

Manado Red-Bean Soup

Brenebon

Manado kidney bean soup with beef or pork, influenced by Dutch colonial cuisine.

🇺🇸New York, United States

Manhattan Clam Chowder

A tomato-based clam chowder with vegetables — New York's red answer to New England's creamy version.