Soup / Main
2 viral, validated soup / main recipes — each tested by a named editor in a real kitchen.
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Żurek — soupe polonaise aigre au seigle
Poland's beloved sour soup: a tangy broth soured with fermented rye starter (zakwas), rich with smoked sausage and marjoram, and served with a halved hard-boiled egg. Traditionally ladled into a hollowed bread loaf at Easter, it's hearty, gently sour and deeply comforting — Poland in a bowl.
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Ash reshteh — soupe persane aux herbes, nouilles et légumineuses
A thick, nourishing Persian soup that's almost a meal in a bowl: a deep green broth packed with fresh herbs, spinach, three kinds of beans and lentils, and reshteh (Persian noodles), finished with tangy kashk (fermented whey), sweet caramelised onions and minty fried garlic. Ash reshteh is the soup of gatherings, Nowruz (Persian New Year) and chilly days — comforting, herby and complex, with the noodles symbolically representing the untangling of life's paths.