Soups

🇷🇴Romanian Moldavia, Romania

Moldavian Hen Soup

Ciorbă moldovenească de găină

Moldovan zeamă made with chicken, homemade noodles, wheat-bran souring, and lovage, served as a clear, aromatic soup.

🇻🇪Venezuela

Mondongo

Tripe cut small and cooked long with chickpeas, potato, pumpkin and vegetables into a thick, heavily seasoned soup.

🇵🇪Ayacucho, Peru

Mondongo Ayacuchano

Ayacucho's long-cooked mote and tripe soup served at festivals and family gatherings.

🇧🇴Bolivia

Mondongo Boliviano

Mondongo

A Bolivian tripe soup with corn, potatoes, and herbs, a warming highland specialty.

🇲🇸Montserrat

Montserrat Pumpkin Soup

Pumpkin Soup

A comforting, mildly spiced soup made with calabaza pumpkin (Caribbean variety); has a velvety texture and concentrated flavour; ingredients may include chicken broth, thyme, ginger, garlic, onion, brown sugar, and hot peppers; a traditional Montserrat soup.

🇲🇸Montserrat

Montserrat Saturday Soup

Saturday Soup

A time-honoured Caribbean tradition in Montserrat; built on a base of pig tail and chicken with lots of ground provisions and savoury spices; the consistency is thick, filling, and satisfying; served on Saturday afternoons at Carr's Bay; a traditional weekend dish.

🇳🇪Niger

Moringa Soup

Miyan Zogale

A nutritious Nigerien soup of fresh moringa leaves simmered with groundnut paste, meat or dried fish, tomato, onion, and dawa dawa; dark green, slightly thick, and highly valued for vitamins and minerals.

🇺🇿Uzbekistan

Moshkhurda

Moshxurda

A Uzbek mung bean and rice soup with meat and vegetables

🇹🇿Arusha, Tanzania

Mtori

Green bananas boiled with beef and mashed into a thick soup, eaten by Chagga households for breakfast.

🇰🇷South Korea

Mudfish Soup

추어탕

A hearty, spicy soup made with ground mudfish (loach), doenjang, gochujang, and vegetables, a traditional health food.

🇬🇧United Kingdom

Mulligatawny

A curried soup of Anglo-Indian origin, made with meat, rice, lentils, apples and curry spices, created during the British Raj in the 18th century.

🇸🇰Eastern Slovakia, Slovakia

Mushroom Soup

Hubová polievka

Dried forest mushrooms simmered with potato, soured with cream and vinegar and thickened with a pale roux, eaten at Christmas in the east.

🇨🇴Santander, Colombia

Mute

A Santander soup of corn, beans, pork, and vegetables, slow-cooked until thick. A rustic, hearty highland stew, served with rice and avocado.

🇨🇳Shaanxi, China

Mutton Stew with Torn Bread

羊肉泡馍

You are handed a dense unleavened bun to tear into fingernail-sized pieces, which the kitchen then cooks in mutton broth with vermicelli and lamb.

🇦🇴Angola

Muzongue

A thick broth of fresh and dried fish with palm oil, sweet potato, tomato, onion and greens.

🇰🇿Kazakhstan

Nauryz Kozhe

Наурыз көже

A Kazakh festive Nauryz soup with seven symbolic ingredients: meat, milk, salt, grain, butter, flour, and water, a spring and cultural icon

🇲🇪Montenegro

Nettle Chowder

Čorba od koprive

Young nettle tops boiled and puréed with potato and a roux, finished with cream or crumbled cheese.

🇦🇩Andorra

Nettle Soup

Juha od koprive

Traditional soup made with young stinging nettles, often with potatoes and sometimes eggs, a spring seasonal dish.

🇺🇸New England, United States

New England Clam Chowder

A creamy white soup of clams, potatoes, and onions, thickened with salt pork and milk or cream.

🇰🇭Cambodia

Ngam Ngov

ស្ងោរងាមង៉ូវ

Clear soup soured with pickled lime (ngam ngov), made with chicken or fish, galangal, lemongrass, and kaffir lime leaves.

🇱🇰Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Northern Seafood Broth

ஒடியல் கூழ்

A thick seafood broth of crab, prawn, cuttlefish and fish thickened with palmyra root flour and soured with tamarind, eaten scalding hot with the fingers.

🇱🇻Latvia

Nātru Zupa

Spring nettle soup; overlaps Estonian nogesesupp

🇬🇶Bioko (Island / Malabo), Equatorial Guinea

Ocro Soup

Ocrosoup

A viscous okra soup typical of Bioko Island, with palm oil, onions, chili, and fish or meat; served with boiled cassava, rice, taro, yam, or plantain.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Ofe Achara

An Igbo soup from Abia built around tender achara grass, meat or fish and a rich savoury broth.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Ofe Akwu

Igbo palm-fruit soup served with rice, distinct from Delta banga by its vegetable and seasoning profile.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Ofe Nsala

White soup with no palm oil at all, thickened with pounded yam and scented with uziza and utazi leaves, made with catfish.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Ofe Okazi

Igbo soup made with sliced okazi leaves, stockfish or meat and a richly seasoned broth.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Ofe Owerri

An Igbo vegetable soup from Owerri with okazi, ugu, uziza and oha leaves, thickened with cocoyam, rich with assorted meat and fish.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Ogbono Soup

Ogbono

Ground wild mango seed cooked into a soup that draws into long strands when lifted, with palm oil, meat, fish and bitter leaf.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Oha Soup

Ofe oha

Oha leaves torn by hand — never cut with a knife — cooked in a cocoyam-thickened palm oil broth with meat and stockfish.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Okoho Soup

Okoho

A traditional Idoma soup from Benue State made from the slimy extract of okoho plant bark, with bushmeat, stockfish and egusi balls, served with pounded yam.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Okra Soup

Ila alasepo

Chopped okra cooked briefly in a pepper and palm oil base with fish and meat, kept slippery and barely cooked.

🇷🇺Russia

Okroshka

Окрошка

Okroshka is a cold Russian summer soup of raw vegetables, boiled potatoes, eggs, and meat, mixed with kvass or kefir.

🇦🇿Baku, Azerbaijan

Ovdukh

Ovduq

Cold soup of yogurt thinned with water over cucumber, herbs, garlic and often shredded boiled beef, eaten in the summer heat.

🇰🇷South Korea

Ox Bone Soup

설렁탕

A milky-white soup made by simmering ox leg bones for 10+ hours until the broth becomes cloudy and rich with collagen, seasoned at the table.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Oxtail Soup

Sop Buntut

Indonesian oxtail soup with carrots, potatoes, and nutmeg, rich and comforting.