Soups

🇲🇽Mexico

Caldo de camarón

A dried-shrimp soup, rich and briny, with tomato, chile, and vegetables.

🇵🇪Loreto, Peru

Caldo de Carachama

A Loreto fish broth made with carachama and Amazonian herbs.

🇨🇴Bogotá, Colombia

Caldo de Costilla

A Bogotá beef-rib broth with potatoes, corn, cilantro, and scallions, served for breakfast on cold mornings. Often drunk with aguapanela and cheese for hangovers.

🇪🇨Ecuador

Caldo de Manguera

A thick Ecuadorian blood and rice sausage soup, made from pork blood stuffed into a casing and cooked in a savory broth with yuca and potatoes.

🇲🇽Mexico

Caldo de Mariscos

A Mexican seafood soup loaded with shrimp, fish, and shellfish in a tomato or chile broth.

🇨🇴Santander, Colombia

Caldo de Pajarilla

A Santander breakfast soup of beef liver, onions, cilantro, and potatoes, served with rice and avocado. A rustic, iron-rich highland soup, said to cure hangovers.

🇪🇨Ecuador

Caldo de Pata

A thick Ecuadorian cow-foot soup with peanuts, yuca, corn and potatoes, slow-cooked until the broth is milky and the meat falls from the bone.

🇧🇷Brazil

Caldo de Piraña

An Amazonian soup of piranha, yuca, and green plantain, slow-cooked until rich and gelatinous. A pre-Hispanic dish of the Colombian Amazon, served with fariña.

🇲🇽Mexico

Caldo de Pollo

A home-style Mexican chicken soup with vegetables, rice, and a lime-cilantro finish.

🇲🇽Sonora, Mexico

Caldo de queso

A Sonoran cheese soup of tomatoes, chiles, and soft white cheese melted into the broth.

🇲🇽Mexico

Caldo de Res

A hearty Mexican beef soup with bone-in beef, corn on the cob, potatoes, cabbage, and carrots in a clear broth.

🇲🇽Mexico

Caldo de siete mares

'Seven seas' soup: a lavish seafood broth with seven kinds of shellfish and fish.

🇵🇾Paraguay

Caldo de Surubí

Thick river-fish broth of surubí simmered with milk, cream and vegetables and finished with Paraguayan cheese, a specialty of the riverside departments.

🇲🇽Mexico

Caldo haba (Fava Beans in Broth)

A fava bean broth, thick and earthy, seasoned simply with onion and herbs.

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Caldo santo

A Puerto Rican soup of fish, coconut milk, and vegetables, creamy and gently spiced.

🇲🇽Mexico City, Mexico

Caldo Tlalpeño

A chicken soup from Mexico City with chickpeas, avocado, and a chipotle chile for smoky heat.

🇵🇹Northern Portugal, Portugal

Caldo Verde

Creamy potato soup ribboned with collard greens and a slice of chouriço.

🇸🇳Senegal

Caldou

Caldo

Fish poached in a light broth of onion, lemon and okra or hot pepper, served with plain white rice.

🇺🇸California, United States

Californian clam chowder

A lighter, broth-based West Coast chowder of clams, potatoes, and vegetables, without the cream of the New England version.

🇪🇸Canary Islands, Spain

Canarian Potato Soup

Caldo de papas

Caldo de papas is a Canarian potato soup with garlic and coriander in a light, savoury broth.

🇻🇳Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Canh Chua Ca

Canh chua cá

Sour fish soup from the Mekong Delta with fish, tamarind, pineapple, tomato, bean sprouts, and rice paddy herb, balanced sweet and sour.

🇨🇳Guangdong, China

Cantonese Slow-Cooked Soup (Lao Huo Tang)

老火汤

Lao huo tang, the Cantonese soup simmered for hours and drunk before the meal, is a named daily institution of Guangdong households and restaurants rather than a generic broth; it is ordered by name and its ingredients change with the season.

🇮🇹Tuscany, Italy

Carabaccia

In Tuscany, Carabaccia is Tuscan onion soup with red onions, almonds, cinnamon, vinegar, and bread.

🇮🇹Italy

Carcerato

In Italy, Carcerato is stale bread in thick beef-broth soup with grated cheese.

🇮🇹Campania, Italy

Cardone

In Campania, Cardone is cardoon soup with meatballs, egg, cheese, and clear broth.

🇪🇸Spain

Castilian Garlic Soup

Sopa De Ajo

Castilian garlic soup with bread and egg.

🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

Catshark Soup

Caldillo de pintarroja

Caldillo de pintarroja is a Málaga soup of small dogfish and potatoes, cooked with aromatic seasoning in a light broth.

🇬🇧Wales, United Kingdom

Cawl

A one-pot broth of lamb or bacon with leek, potato and swede, cooked slowly and often eaten over two days.

🇰🇾Cayman Islands

Cayman Pepper Pot

Pepper Pot

A spicy soup made with chicken, bacon, sweet potatoes, Cayman peppers, red bell peppers, hot peppers, garlic, spinach, coconut milk, chicken stock, and spices; a hearty, warming dish with significant heat; a traditional Caymanian soup. Cayman cooks simmer leafy greens, okra, coconut, and salted meat into this local pepper pot.

🇧🇴La Paz, Bolivia

Chairo

Chairo paceño

An Altiplano soup with lamb or beef, chuño (freeze-dried potatoes), carrots, onions, and herbs, a smoky and hearty classic.

🇬🇺Guam

Chalakiles

Chalakiles is a Chamorro chicken soup thickened with toasted, ground rice and coloured with achote; coconut milk may be stirred in.

🇯🇵Kyushu, Japan

Champon

ちゃんぽん

Nagasaki's hearty noodle soup with seafood, vegetables, and pork stir-fried into a rich chicken broth.

🇨🇴Bogotá, Colombia

Changua

A Bogotá and Boyacá breakfast soup of milk, eggs, scallions, and cilantro, served with bread. A cold-morning highland classic, simple and warming.

🇩🇲Dominica

Chatou Water

A traditional Dominican soup made from octopus (chatou in Creole); simmered with coconut milk, ground provisions, dumplings, and local seasonings; a rich, flavourful seafood stew; reflects the French Creole influence on the island; the chatou water of Dominica; a distinctive octopus stew; a coastal specialty.

🇲🇦Morocco

Chbaa

شباعة

A regional Moroccan soup built around wheat or semolina, legumes, and warmly spiced broth.

🇬🇪Georgia

Chicken and Egg Soup

Ჩიხირთმა

A chicken broth thickened with egg yolk and soured with vinegar or unripe grape juice, with coriander and no vegetables at all.