Soups

🇬🇵Guadeloupe

Congo Soup

Soup Congo

A traditional Guadeloupean soup; a hearty soup with provisions, meat, and Creole spices; the Congo soup that is a Guadeloupean classic.

🇵🇭Cordillera, Philippines

Cordillera Chicken Soup

Pinikpikan

A traditional Cordillera chicken soup made by beating the chicken alive before cooking, producing a unique flavor.

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago

Corn Soup

Split peas cooked down with coconut milk, corn on the cob cut into rounds, dumplings and provisions, sold from carts at night.

🇫🇷France

Cousina

Cousina is an Ardèche chestnut soup, thickened into a rustic bowl with a sweet-nutty flavor and creamy body.

🇱🇨Saint Lucia

Cow Heel Soup

Soup of vegetables, okra, dumplings, and split peas, boiled with cow heel; the cow heel is nutritious and gives the soup a gelatinous quality; a traditional Saint Lucian dish; a hearty, restorative soup; the cow heel soup of Saint Lucia; a robust, nourishing broth; a Caribbean comfort food.

🇬🇾Guyana

Crab and Okra Soup

Crab soup

Blue crabs simmered whole with okra, coconut milk and hot pepper into a thick soup eaten with the shells still in it.

🇮🇹Italy

Crapiata

In Italy, Crapiata is Basilicata soup of legumes, grains, and vegetables.

🇲🇽Mexico

Crema de flor de calabaza

A creamy squash-blossom soup, pale and delicate.

🇧🇷Brazil

Creme de Milho

A creamy Brazilian corn chowder blended smooth and finished with cheese, bacon bits and parsley. Served warm as a starter or comfort dish.

🇻🇮Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands

Crucian Kallaloo

Kallaloo

Hearty soup with West African roots made from leafy greens (traditionally wild papalolo, pusley, bata-bata, and bower bush on St. Croix), okra, seafood or salted meat, and served over a ball of fungi; a traditional New Year's dish believed to bring good luck.

🇭🇷Croatia

Crveni bošpor (Red bošpor)

Crveni bošpor

Crveni bošpor is the tomato-and-paprika version of the Sopje wedding soup.

🇨🇴Boyacá, Colombia

Cuchuco

A Boyacá soup of wheat or corn, beans, potatoes, and pork ribs, slow-cooked until thick. A rustic, hearty highland stew for cold weather.

🇬🇧Scotland, United Kingdom

Cullen Skink

A thick soup of smoked haddock, potato, onion and milk, from the fishing village of Cullen on the Moray coast.

🇸🇧Solomon Islands

Curried Coconut and Lime Gourd Soup

Solomon Islands coconut-lime gourd soup simmers gourd with coconut milk, lime, onion, garlic, ginger, and curry seasoning until creamy.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Curry Laksa

咖喱面

Coconut milk-based curry noodle soup with fish cake, tofu puffs, and cockles, rich coconut broth with aromatic laksa leaves.

🇨🇾Cyprus

Cypriot Trahanas

Τραχανάς

Cracked wheat soured with sheep's milk, dried into hard shards and later boiled into a thick soup with halloumi cubes.

🇵🇱Poland

Czernina

Duck-blood soup.

🇺🇸Mid-Atlantic, United States

Delaware clam chowder

A Delaware take on clam chowder, typically tomato-based and lighter than New England style.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Demikát

Shepherds' soup of bryndza whisked into water or potato broth with caraway and fried onion, poured over stale bread.

🇵🇼Palau

Demok

Taro leaves simmered in coconut milk, sometimes with coconut crab or fish meat; the national soup of Palau; a traditional dish that showcases the Palauan reliance on taro and coconut; served at everyday meals and celebrations.

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

Dograma

Doğrama

Cold summer dish of bread torn into buttermilk with chopped cucumber, onion and herbs, eaten with a spoon like a soup.

🇹🇲Turkmenistan

Dograma

A ceremonial Turkmen dish of çörek flatbread torn into pieces, combined with boiled mutton, sliced onions, and tomato, all drenched in a flavorful meat broth; the name means 'to chop up'; prepared for special occasions and religious holidays; a communal dish where everyone participates in tearing the bread by hand.

🇩🇲Dominica

Dominican Callaloo Soup

Callaloo Soup

The national dish of Dominica since 2013; a thick, creamy green soup from dasheen (taro) leaves, coconut milk, okra, garlic, and Scotch bonnet; often enriched with crab, salted meat, or smoked fish; combined with yams, peppers, onions, green bananas, and cornmeal dumplings; the Dominican version is spicy; a hearty representation of Dominican Creole cuisine.

🇩🇲Dominica

Dominican Pumpkin Soup

Pumpkin Soup

A thick, creamy soup made from local pumpkin; simmered with coconut milk, herbs, and spices; a popular Dominican dish; sold at the Roseau market; the pumpkin soup of Dominica; a velvety, comforting soup; a Caribbean classic.

🇨🇫Central African Republic

Dongo-dongo

A thick okra soup or sauce simmered with dried or smoked fish, onions, garlic and hot peppers; often thickened with tomato paste or a pinch of baking soda and served with fufu or rice.

🇺🇸United States

Doodle Soup

A Bradford, Tennessee specialty: a tangy broth made from roast chicken or game drippings, vinegar, cayenne, and flour, eaten with crackers.

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

Dovga

Dovğa

Yogurt cooked with rice, chickpeas and a great quantity of chopped herbs, stabilised with egg and served hot or cold.

🇳🇪Niger

Dried Okra Soup

Miyan Kubewa

A thick, fragrant Nigerien okra soup made with dried okra pods, beef, dried fish, vegetable oil, onion, pepper, ginger, and dawa dawa; darker and richer than fresh okra soups, with a deep, savoury flavour.

🇭🇺Hungary

Drunkard's Soup

Korhelyleves

Drunkard's Soup is a sauerkraut soup with smoked sausage, pork ribs, and paprika.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Dršťková polévka

A Czech tripe soup with paprika and vegetables, a pub and daily classic

🇨🇳Jiangsu, China

Duck Blood and Vermicelli Soup

鸭血粉丝汤

Cubes of set duck blood, duck gizzard, liver and tofu puffs in a clear duck broth over sweet potato vermicelli.

🇪🇪Estonia

Dumpling Soup

Klimbisupp

Soup with small flour dumplings, a traditional Estonian comfort food with clear flavorful broth.

🇰🇵North Korea

Dumpling Soup

만두국

A soup with Korean dumplings (mandu) in a clear beef broth, often eaten on New Year's, with rice cake slices added.

🇹🇷Turkey

Düğün çorbası

Dugun corbasi, the egg-and-lemon-thickened wedding soup with browned butter, is a named ceremonial soup still served in restaurants.

🇬🇲The Gambia

Ebbeh

Ebeh

A chunky cassava-thickened seafood soup with smoked fish, crab, shrimp or oysters, palm oil, hot pepper, tamarind, and lime.

🇳🇬Calabar, Nigeria

Edikang Ikong

Efik soup of waterleaf and pumpkin leaves cooked with a great deal of palm oil, periwinkle, dried fish and beef, and almost no water.