Soups

🇨🇴Nariño, Colombia

Sopa de Pan

A Nariño and Boyacá soup of stale bread, milk, cheese, eggs, and cilantro, baked until golden. A rustic, comforting highland dish, especially at Easter.

🇲🇽Chiapas, Mexico

Sopa de Pan Chiapaneca

A Chiapas bread soup of broth-soaked bread with tomato, vegetables, and cheese.

🇵🇦Panama

Sopa de Pata

A Salvadoran hearty soup of cow's feet, tripe, yuca, cabbage, corn, plantains, and green beans, a daily and regional classic

🇨🇴Colombia

Sopa de Patacón

Caribbean-coast soup of broken patacones — twice-fried green plantain — simmered with garlic, scallions and cilantro in a light beef broth, finished with crumbled costeño cheese.

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Sopa de platano

Sopa de plátano

A Puerto Rican plantain soup, creamy and mild, made with ripe or green plantains and seasoned broth.

🇳🇮Nicaragua

Sopa de Queso

A Nicaraguan cheese soup with corn, vegetables, and herbs, a Lenten and daily classic

🇦🇷Argentina

Sopa de Quinoa

An Andean soup of quinoa, vegetables, and sometimes meat, from the Argentine northwest. A nutritious, pre-Hispanic dish of the high Puna, served hot in winter.

🇸🇻El Salvador

Sopa de Res

A Salvadoran beef soup with vegetables, corn, yuca, and plantains, a daily and home classic

🇨🇴Nariño, Colombia

Sopa de Rico

A Nariño soup of ripe plantain, cheese, and eggs, thick and sweet. A highland specialty, served hot with avocado and rice, rustic and comforting.

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Sopa de salchichon

Sopa de salchichón

A Puerto Rican soup made with salami, potatoes, and vegetables in a savory broth.

🇵🇹Alentejo, Portugal

Sopa de tomate alentejana

Sopa de tomate alentejana is a Portuguese soup from Évora District, built around a seasoned broth and the region’s staple ingredients.

🇲🇽Mexico

Sopa de Tortilla

A tortilla soup of crispy tortilla strips in a tomato-chile broth, garnished with avocado, cheese, and crema.

🇧🇷Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sopa Leão Veloso

A Rio de Janeiro seafood soup packed with fish, shellfish, tomato and aromatic broth.

🇭🇳Northern Honduras, Honduras

Sopa Marinera

Sopa marinera hondureña

Coconut-milk seafood soup with crab in the shell, shrimp, fish and plantain, eaten with the hands as much as with a spoon.

🇲🇽Puebla, Mexico

Sopa Poblano

A Puebla cream soup of poblano chile and corn.

🇲🇽Michoacán, Mexico

Sopa Tarasca

A Michoacán bean-and-tomato soup, puréed smooth and topped with tortilla strips, cream, and dried chile.

🇵🇪Trujillo, Peru

Sopa Teóloga

A ceremonial Trujillo soup of bread, poultry, cheese and herbs served at northern celebrations.

🇵🇪Peru

Sopa Wantan

Cantonese-Peruvian wonton soup

🇨🇼Curaçao

Sopi di Banana

Sopi di banana; a comforting and thick Curaçaoan plantain soup; highlights ripe plantains; celebrates the fruit's inherent sweetness contrasted with savory broth and local herbs; an unexpected savory delight; a distinctive Curaçaoan specialty; a traditional dish.

🇦🇼Aruba

Sopi di Oester

Sopi Oester

Sopi di oester; a local Aruban oyster soup; each restaurant and household claims rights to the best recipe on the island; a traditional Aruban dish; a feature of seafood restaurants; a local specialty; a staple of the midday meal; a popular island favorite.

🇦🇼Aruba

Sopi di Yambo

Yambo

Sopi di yambo; an Antillean gumbo-style soup made with puréed okra for a thick, smooth consistency; made with fresh fish or pig's tail; served with funchi; a traditional Aruban soup; a staple of the midday meal; a local dish; a feature of Creole kitchen traditions.

🇱🇹Lithuania

Sorrel Soup

Lapienė

Creamy soup made from braised sorrel or spinach in a broth enriched with sour cream.

🇭🇺Hungary

Soskaleves

Sóskaleves

Sorrel soup, similar to green borscht.

🇮🇩Medan, Indonesia

Soto Medan

A Medan chicken soup with coconut milk, turmeric, lime and crunchy toppings.

🇭🇹Haiti

Soup Joumou

Turban squash puréed into a beef broth with pasta, cabbage, carrot, potato and scotch bonnet, eaten every 1 January to mark the independence the enslaved were once forbidden to taste.

🇸🇬Singapore, Singapore

Soup Tulang

Soup tulang merah

Mutton or beef leg bones stewed in a fiercely red, sweet-spicy tomato and chilli gravy; the marrow is the point and is pushed out with a straw or a finger.

🇮🇷Iran

Soup-e Jo

سوپ جو

Barley cooked in chicken stock with carrot and cream and finished with lemon, served as a first course everywhere.

🇧🇮Burundi

Soupe aux Haricots

A simple bean soup of white or red beans simmered with onions, tomatoes, and sometimes carrots or greens; a common everyday first course or light meal in Burundian homes, reflecting the country's reliance on beans as the primary protein.

🇨🇮Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Soupe de Pied

Cow's foot boiled for hours into a sticky, peppery broth, drunk from a bowl late at night as a restorative.

🇰🇲Comoros

Soupe Faux Pois

A Comorian pigeon-pea soup simmered with tomato, aromatics and coconut, served as a warming island bowl.

🇸🇳Senegal

Soupe Kandia

Suup kandia

Okra pounded and cooked with palm oil, smoked fish, meat and chilli into a thick, slippery stew over white rice.

🇫🇷France

Soupe à la Graisse

Soupe à la graisse is a Norman-style cabbage and bacon broth traditionally associated with Guernsey kitchens.

🇸🇸South Sudan

South Sudanese Goat Soup

Goat Soup

Slow-cooked goat meat soup with tomatoes, onions, and spices; goat is one of the most common meats in South Sudan; rich, meaty, and hearty; served with kisra or rice; a staple of celebrations and everyday meals.

🇸🇸South Sudan

South Sudanese Kawari

Kawari

South Sudanese soup made from cow hooves; slow-cooked for hours until the cartilage dissolves into a gelatinous broth; flavored with onions, tomatoes, and spices; a rich, collagen-heavy soup; considered a delicacy; influenced by Sudanese cuisine.

🇸🇸South Sudan

South Sudanese Molokhia

Molokhia

South Sudanese stew of molokhia leaves (jews mallow) cooked in a meat-based soup; leaves minced or blended with a wooden ladle (lofrega); seasoned with garlic and fresh dill; classically eaten with kisra or injera; a dish with Arabic roots adapted to local ingredients.

🇰🇷Jeonju, South Korea

Soybean Sprout Soup with Rice

콩나물국밥

A Jeonju specialty of soybean sprout soup served over rice, with a nutty, slightly spicy broth and crunchy sprouts.