Soups

🇯🇴Jordan

Freekeh Soup

شوربة فريكة

Green wheat, smoked from being fire-roasted while young, simmered in chicken or lamb broth into a smoky, grainy soup.

🇫🇷France

French Onion Soup

Soupe a l'oignon

Caramelized onion soup with beef broth, topped with bread and melted cheese.

🇭🇺Hungary

Fruit Soup

Gyümölcsleves

Hungarian fruit soup is a chilled, lightly sweet soup of seasonal fruit, often sour cherries, with cream or sour cream and warm spices. Cold sour-cherry soup (hideg meggyleves) is its best-known summer form.

🇹🇱Timor-Leste

Fuuntaul Tong and Gailong

Fuuntaul Tong no Gailong

A popular Timorese soup dish with red beans, beef, lettuce, and egg, served with rice; listed in Wikipedia's Cuisine of Timor-Leste; a hearty, comforting soup that combines protein and vegetables; a homestyle dish reflecting the simplicity of Timorese cooking.

🇲🇩Gagauzia, Moldova

Gagauz Shorpa

Şorpa

Gagauz mutton soup: bone-in lamb boiled long with onion, pepper and potato, seasoned hard and eaten with flatbread torn into the bowl.

🇹🇲Turkmenistan

Gainatma

Gaýnatma

A Turkmen noodle dish in a light broth with meat.

🇪🇸Galicia, Spain

Galician Soup

Caldo gallego

Caldo gallego is a Galician soup of potatoes, greens, beans, and pork simmered until the broth is hearty.

🇬🇲The Gambia

Gambian Pepper Soup

Pepeh

A hot, clear soup of fish or meat with onion, chilli, garlic, and aromatic spices, served as a light meal or alongside rice.

🇫🇷France

Garbure

Hearty Southwest soup with cabbage, beans, and preserved duck or pork.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Garlic Soup

Cesnaková polievka

Broth heavy with crushed garlic and marjoram, served with croutons and often grated cheese, sometimes poured into a hollowed bread loaf.

🇲🇻Maldives

Garudhiya

ގަރުދިޔަ

Tuna is simmered with water and salt into a clear broth served with rice, lime, chilli, and onion.

🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

Gazpacho

Andalusia's refreshing cold soup of blended raw tomatoes, cucumber, bell pepper, onion, garlic, olive oil, and vinegar, served ice cold.

🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

Gazpachuelo

Gazpachuelo is a Málaga soup of fish and potato finished with a delicate mayonnaise emulsion.

🇳🇬Ibadan, Nigeria

Gbegiri

Brown beans cooked to collapse and sieved into a smooth, pale yellow soup finished with palm oil.

🇬🇮Gibraltar, Gibraltar

Gibraltarian Menestra

Menestra

A vegetable stew/soup unique to each family; made with runner beans, carrots, pumpkin, aubergine, courgettes, kohlrabi, garlic, olive oil, basil, red kidney beans, and pasta (broken spaghetti or small macaroni); vegetables cooked, blended, then served with grated cheese; traditionally eaten during Lent.

🇰🇷South Korea

Ginseng Chicken Soup

삼계탕

A whole young chicken stuffed with glutinous rice, ginseng, jujubes, and garlic, boiled until tender, eaten on the hottest days of summer.

🇸🇨Seychelles

Giraffe Crab Soup

Thick umami soup consisting of giraffe crab and sweet potato boiled in a soy-sauce broth, seasoned with lemongrass, chili peppers, and ginger; fragrant with a bit of spice; a popular Seychellois soup reflecting the Chinese influence on Creole cuisine.

🇷🇸Vojvodina, Serbia

Goulash Soup

Gulyásleves

Goulash soup is a Hungarian beef soup with paprika, potatoes, caraway, and csipetke noodles traditionally cooked in a bogrács.

🇨🇦Canada

Gourganes Bean Soup

Soupe aux gourganes

A Quebec soup of dried fava beans (gourganes) with salted pork, onions, and herbs, simmered until thick.

🇭🇷Croatia

Grahova Pretepena Juha

Grahova pretepena juha is Međimurje bean soup thickened with roux and sour cream.

🇮🇪Ulster (Republic of Ireland), Ireland

Greencastle chowder

Greencastle chowder is a soup from Greencastle, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇬🇩Grenada

Grenadian Callaloo Soup

Callaloo Soup

Grenadian soup made from dasheen (taro) leaves, coconut milk, and often slivers of land crab meat; the dasheen leaves are the island's favorite greens; a memorable Grenadian specialty served in many restaurants; thick, green, and deeply flavored with spices; the signature soup of the Spice Isle.

🇬🇩Grenada

Grenadian Pigeon Peas Soup

Pigeon Peas Soup

Hearty Grenadian soup of pigeon peas with meats (often pigtail) and provisions; one of the Grenadian soups; thick, warming, and deeply flavored with local spices; a staple of home cooking; found at local restaurants and roadside stalls; the pigeon pea soup of the Spice Isle.

🇨🇭Graubünden, Switzerland

Grisons Barley Soup

Bündner Gerstensuppe

Pearl barley simmered with root vegetables, dried beef and bacon until thick, finished with cream.

🇵🇱Poland

Grochówka

A Polish split pea soup with smoked pork, bacon, and vegetables, hearty and thick. A rustic, filling soup, especially popular in the army and countryside.

🇬🇭Ghana

Groundnut Soup

Nkatenkwan

Peanut paste cooked out with tomato, onion, ginger and chilli into a thick soup with chicken, goat or dried fish.

🇳🇪Niger

Groundnut Soup

Miyan Geda

A creamy Nigerien soup of roasted groundnut paste, meat, dried fish, tomato, onion, and leafy greens; thick, nutty, and slightly sweet, it is a staple sauce for tuwo shinkafa and tuwo masara.

🇬🇼Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

Guinean Chicken Rice Soup

Canja de Galinha

Comforting soup of chicken, rice, and aromatic seasonings; a Portuguese-influenced dish adapted in Guinea-Bissau with local chicken and rice; served when ill or as a light meal; the rice breaks down to thicken the broth.

🇮🇳Gujarat, India

Gujarati Tuvar Dal

ગુજરાતી તુવેર દાળ

A thin, sweet-sour Gujarati lentil soup with peanuts and kokum. It is served daily with rice.

🇩🇰Denmark

Gule Ærter (Yellow Pea Soup)

Gule ærter

A Danish yellow pea soup with pork, carrots, and onions, a hearty and rustic classic. A national and winter staple a traditional and filling soup, a daily and peasant classic, a soup, a legume dish.

🇲🇳Mongolia

Guriltai Shul

Гурилтай шөл

Mutton broth with hand-cut noodle squares, potato, carrot and onion, seasoned with little beyond salt.

🇨🇳Tibet, China

Guthuk Barley Soup

古突

Guthuk, the Tibetan noodle soup eaten two nights before Losar with fortune-telling dumplings hiding wool, charcoal or chilli, is a named calendar dish and a distinctive ritual.

🇩🇪Hamburg, Germany

Hamburger Aalsuppe

Hamburger Aalsuppe is a North German soup of eel, root vegetables, herbs and dried fruit in a savoury-sweet broth.

🇰🇷South Korea

Hand-Torn Dough Flakes

수제비

A comforting soup of hand-torn dough flakes cooked in a clear anchovy broth with potatoes, zucchini, and onions.

🇰🇷South Korea

Hangover Soup

해장국

A general term for restorative soups eaten to cure hangovers, typically with beef broth, cabbage, and congealed blood, varying by region.

🇧🇾Belarus

Harbuzok

Гарбузок

Pumpkin soup thickened with milk and flour and finished with fried mushrooms and onion, an autumn kitchen dish from the Palesse marshland.