Soups

🇵🇹Algarve, Portugal

Açorda à Algarvia

Açorda à Algarvia is a Portuguese soup from Algarve, built around a seasoned broth and the region’s staple ingredients.

🇫🇷Provence, France

Aïgo boulido

Aïgo boulido is a Provençal garlic-and-sage broth finished with olive oil, traditionally served as a light restorative soup.

🇲🇦Morocco

Babbouche

A Moroccan snail soup: snails simmered in a heavily spiced broth of cumin, paprika, and herbs.

🇩🇪Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Badische Zwiebelsuppe

Badische Zwiebelsuppe cooks sweet onions with stock and Baden wine, then finishes the bowl with toasted bread and melted cheese.

🇮🇹Liguria, Italy

Bagnun

In Liguria, Bagnun is anchovy soup with tomato, onion, herbs, and toasted bread.

🇲🇾Selangor, Malaysia

Bak Kut Teh

肉骨茶

Pork rib soup with medicinal herbs and spices, Klang style is darker and herbal, deep herbal flavor with tender meat falling off bone.

🇨🇲Cameroon

Banga Soup

Banga

Palm fruit pulp boiled and sieved into a red, oily broth spiced with beletientien and other Delta herbs, cooked with catfish or beef.

🇻🇳Vietnam

Banh Canh

Bánh canh

Thick tapioca or rice flour noodle soup with crab, shrimp, or pork in a rich, slightly viscous broth.

🇮🇩South Kalimantan, Indonesia

Banjar Soto

Soto Banjar

South Kalimantan chicken soto with cinnamon and nutmeg, aromatic and clear.

🇲🇳Mongolia

Banshtai Tsai

Банштай цай

Salted milk tea with small meat dumplings boiled directly in it, eaten as a one-bowl breakfast.

🇲🇳Mongolia

Bantan

Бантан

Thick broth with flour rubbed between the palms into crumbs and stirred in, plus minced meat — a restorative soup for the ill and the hungover.

🇵🇱Poland

Barszcz Biały

A Polish white borscht made from fermented wheat flour starter (instead of rye), with sausage, bacon, and egg. Similar to żurek but milder, served at Easter.

🇵🇱Poland

Barszcz Czerwony

Polish clear red beetroot soup, tangy and slightly sweet, served with uszka dumplings on Christmas Eve or with a hard-boiled egg. A national staple.

🇵🇱Poland

Barszcz Ukraiński

A Polish version of Ukrainian borscht: a hearty beet soup with beans, cabbage, and meat, thicker and creamier than clear barszcz. A filling, savory soup.

🇨🇭Basel, Switzerland

Basel Flour Soup

Basler Mehlsuppe

Flour toasted slowly in butter until dark brown, then whisked into stock with onion and finished with grated cheese.

🇨🇭Basel, Switzerland

Basel Green Herb Soup

Basler grüne Kräutersuppe

A thick, green soup of mixed fresh herbs, spinach and sorrel puréed with stock and cream, a filling Basel specialty.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Batiburrillo

Hearty caldo of beef offal — liver, kidney, tongue and heart — stewed with vegetables; created in 1926 by Basque immigrant Sebastián Sasiain in San Juan Bautista (Misiones), which celebrates it with an annual festival.

🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

Bayerische Brezensuppe

Bayerische Brezensuppe turns stale pretzel pieces into a savoury broth with onion, herbs and sometimes egg.

🇮🇹Italy

Bazzoffia

In Italy, Bazzoffia is spring soup of artichokes, peas, broad beans, egg, and bread.

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Bean Soup

Боб чорба

Dried beans stewed with onion, carrot, tomato, paprika and a fistful of dried savory — the everyday soup of the countryside and army canteens alike.

🇨🇱Chile

Bean Soup

Sopa de porotos

Simple bean soup, often with vegetables, a comforting Chilean country dish, hearty and nourishing, traditional.

🇳🇪Niger

Bean Soup

Miyan Wake

A simple, filling Nigerien soup of cowpeas or black-eyed peas cooked in palm oil with onion, tomato, pepper, and dried fish or meat; a humble, protein-rich stew served with tuwo.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Bean Soup

Kumanda Kesu

Bean soup thickened by its own squash and finished with queso paraguayo, somewhere between a soup and a porridge in the Paraguayan winter kitchen.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Bean Soup

Fazuľová polievka

Beans cooked with smoked meat, root vegetables and often sauerkraut, finished with a roux and a spoon of sour cream.

🇷🇴Romania

Bean Soup in a Bread Bowl

Ciorbă de fasole cu ciolan

Beans cooked with a smoked pork knuckle and soured vegetables, often served in a hollowed round loaf that you eat as you go.

🇸🇲San Marino

Beans with Pork Rind

Fagioli con le cotiche

A traditional Sammarinese Christmas bean and bacon soup; white beans slow-cooked with pork rinds (cotiche), tomatoes, garlic, sage, and olive oil until thick and filling; the rinds give body and a particular texture; a robust winter dish consumed in the cold months; served with crusty bread; a Wikipedia-listed dish.

🇵🇭Batangas, Philippines

Beef Marrow Soup

Bulalo

A Batangas beef shank and marrow bone soup with vegetables, prized for its rich, collagen-heavy broth.

🇵🇭Philippines

Beef Soup

Nilagang Baka

A clear beef soup with corn, cabbage, potatoes, and saba bananas, a simple and hearty comfort food.

🇸🇮Slovenia

Beef Soup with Noodles

Goveja juha z rezanci

Clear beef broth from soup bones and root vegetables, served with hand-cut egg noodles and a scatter of parsley — the compulsory Sunday first course.

🇷🇴Romania

Beef Sour Soup

Ciorbă de văcuţă

Beef boiled with celery stalks, onions, carrots, potatoes, bell peppers and tomato paste in a broth soured with lemon juice and enriched with beaten egg.

🇷🇴Romania

Beet Sour Soup

Ciorbă de sfeclă

Beetroot simmered with carrots, onions and rice in a borș-soured broth, similar to borscht but distinctly Romanian in seasoning.

🇧🇦Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Begova Čorba

Chicken and okra soup thickened with flour and finished with cream and egg yolk — the 'bey's soup', the formal opening of a Bosnian meal.

🇭🇷Croatia

Bela juha

Bela juha is a Novi Marof white soup thickened with cream and egg, usually carrying small vegetables.

🇵🇼Palau

Beldakl

Fish cooked in water as a simple soup; a traditional Palauan preparation that highlights the freshness of the fish; the most basic form of Palauan fish cookery; often seasoned with ginger and salt.

🇧🇪Belgium

Belgian Fish Soup

Vissoep

Hearty fish soup from the Belgian coast, loaded with local catch and vegetables.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Berkoukech

بركوكش

Large hand-rolled semolina pellets cooked in a spiced tomato and lamb broth into something between a soup and a stew.