Soup
31 viral soup recipes — clear, structured, and quick to cook.
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프렌치 어니언 수프
Deeply caramelized onions, dark beef stock, Gruyère melted over a toasted baguette crouton. Sixty minutes mostly hands-off.
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쌀국수 (포 보)
Star anise, cinnamon, charred ginger and onion, beef bones simmered for 4 hours. Thin rice noodles. Paper-thin raw eye round that cooks in the ladled-over broth. Hanoi version — restrained, herb-forward, no hoisin.
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아브골레모노 (그리스식 레몬 치킨 라이스 수프)
Stock thickened by eggs and lemon into a velvety, faintly tangy broth, with shreds of poached chicken and tender rice. The cure for grey weather, hangovers, and grief.
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Mercimek Çorbası — Turkish Red Lentil Soup
The soup on every Turkish table, breakfast to dinner. Red lentils simmered soft with onion and carrot, blitzed silky, finished with a sizzle of pul biber butter and a hard squeeze of lemon.
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Borscht — Beet & Cabbage Soup
Deep ruby, sweet-sour and savory, with tender beef, beets, cabbage, and potato. Finished with a swirl of sour cream and a shower of dill. The hearty bowl that defines Ukrainian and Eastern European home cooking.
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Hungarian Goulash (Gulyás)
Not the thick stew the rest of the world calls goulash — the real Hungarian gulyás is a soup: tender beef and potato in a paprika-stained broth, deeply warming, built on a foundation of slowly sweated onions and a mountain of sweet paprika.
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쇼유 라멘
A clear, savory chicken-and-dashi broth seasoned with a soy-based tare, ladled over springy ramen noodles and topped with chashu pork, a jammy marinated egg, scallion, and nori. A weeknight-feasible bowl built on real technique.
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Tom Yum Goong — Thai Hot & Sour Shrimp Soup
Thailand's iconic hot-and-sour soup: a fragrant broth of lemongrass, galangal, kaffir lime, and chili, brightened with lime and fish sauce, full of plump shrimp and mushrooms. Ready in twenty minutes.
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Żurek — Polish Sour Rye Soup
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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Caldo Verde — Portuguese Kale & Potato Soup
Portugal's national soup: a silky purée of potato and onion in good olive oil, with finely shredded greens (couve / collard) stirred in at the end so they stay bright, and slices of smoky chouriço for richness. Humble, soothing and beloved from everyday dinners to festas — finished with a generous thread of olive oil and served with broa cornbread.
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Miso Soup — Japanese Dashi & Miso Soup
The soul of the Japanese table: a clear dashi broth whisked with miso paste and dotted with silken tofu, wakame seaweed and spring onion. Ready in 10 minutes, it's the everyday soup served with almost every Japanese meal — and the golden rule is to never boil it once the miso goes in, so the aroma and gut-friendly cultures stay alive.
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Tom Yum Goong — Thai Hot & Sour Shrimp Soup
Thailand's most famous soup: a fragrant, fiery, sour broth alive with lemongrass, galangal, kaffir lime leaf and chilli, studded with plump shrimp and mushrooms, balanced with fish sauce and lime. Tom yum goong walks the Thai tightrope of hot, sour, salty and a touch of sweet — clear-broth or creamy with a spoon of chilli paste and evaporated milk. Bright, aromatic and ready in 20 minutes.
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Hot and Sour Soup — Chinese Suan La Tang
The takeout favourite done right: a savoury broth made genuinely hot from white pepper and genuinely sour from black vinegar, thick with silky ribbons of egg, soft tofu, wood-ear mushroom and bamboo shoot, lightly thickened to a velvety body. Suan la tang is fast, warming and endlessly adjustable — the balance of pepper-heat and vinegar-tang, added at the end, is what separates a great bowl from a gloopy one.
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Ash Reshteh — Persian Herb, Noodle & Bean Soup
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.
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Minestrone — Italian Vegetable & Bean Soup
Italy's great soup of the cucina povera: a hearty, ever-changing pot of seasonal vegetables, beans and a little pasta or rice, built on a slow-cooked soffritto and simmered until everything is tender and the broth is rich and savoury. Minestrone has no fixed recipe — it's a celebration of whatever the garden and pantry offer — but the soffritto base, a Parmesan rind in the pot, and a finish of good olive oil and grated cheese turn humble vegetables into something deeply comforting.
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Tom Kha Gai — Thai Coconut Chicken Soup
The gentler, creamy cousin of tom yum: a fragrant Thai soup of chicken and mushrooms in a silky coconut-milk broth, perfumed with galangal (kha), lemongrass and kaffir lime leaf, and balanced with fish sauce and lime. Tom kha gai is soothing and aromatic rather than fiery — the coconut mellows the heat — with the same bright hot-sour-salty edge underneath. Comforting, quick and luxurious, it's a Thai restaurant favourite that's easy to make at home.
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콘 차우더
This corn chowder is a thick, creamy one-pot American soup built on smoky bacon, tender Yukon Gold potatoes, and mounds of sweet corn. Blending just a third of the pot gives it a velvety body while leaving plenty of whole kernels to pop against the spoon. A last-minute pour of milk and cream keeps it silky without turning heavy or pasty.
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햄 완두콩 수프 (스플릿 피 수프)
A thick, spoon-coating green split pea soup built on a smoked ham hock that seasons the pot as it simmers, then gets shredded back in for meaty bites throughout. The peas need no soaking — they collapse into a naturally creamy base after about an hour of gentle simmering, no blender required. A splash of cider vinegar at the end brightens all that smoky, earthy richness.
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스트라치아텔라 수프
Stracciatella is Rome's answer to egg drop soup: golden chicken broth laced with tender shreds of Parmigiano-enriched egg, warmed with nutmeg and a whisper of lemon zest. The "little rags" (stracciatella means exactly that) form because you stream the egg mixture into barely simmering broth and let it set for a moment before stirring — pour into boiling broth and you get cloudy wisps instead. A spoonful of semolina in the eggs is the old Roman trick that gives the rags body, so they stay silky rather than dissolving.
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소파 데 피데오 (멕시코 토마토 국수 수프)
Sopa de fideo is the tomato noodle soup of Mexican home kitchens: thin wheat noodles toasted in oil until nutty and golden, then simmered in a smooth, garlicky tomato broth until silky and just tender. Toasting the dry fideo first is what separates the real thing from plain noodle soup — it keeps the strands from turning mushy and gives the broth a deep, roasty backbone. The whole pot comes together in about 35 minutes with pantry staples, which is exactly why it is the weeknight comfort food generations of Mexican kids grew up on.
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파네라 스타일 브로콜리 체다 수프
A rich, velvety broccoli cheddar soup with tender bits of broccoli and thin ribbons of carrot in every spoonful, just like the bakery-cafe favorite. A quick butter-and-flour roux plus half-and-half gives it that signature silky body, while a full half pound of sharp cheddar stirred in off the heat keeps the soup smooth instead of grainy. It comes together in one pot in about an hour and begs to be served in a sourdough bread bowl.
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양송이 크림수프
A silky, deeply savory soup built on a pound and a half of hard-seared mushrooms rather than a can. Browning the mushrooms in batches until their edges caramelize concentrates their flavor before the broth ever hits the pot, and blending only half the soup gives you a velvety base with meaty bites of mushroom in every spoonful. A splash of cream and dry sherry at the end makes it taste like it simmered all day.
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햄과 콩 수프
A big, old-fashioned pot of ham and bean soup where dried great northern beans simmer with a meaty ham bone until they turn creamy and the broth turns silky and smoky. Simmering the bone right in the pot pulls collagen and salt-cured flavor into every spoonful, and mashing a cupful of beans at the end thickens the soup naturally without any flour or cream.
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치킨 누들 수프
This is the weeknight-fast version of the classic sickday cure: golden broth loaded with tender shredded chicken, sweet carrots, and slippery wide egg noodles. Poaching boneless thighs whole right in the simmering broth keeps the meat juicy while deepening the flavor of store-bought stock, so the whole pot tastes long-simmered in under an hour. A squeeze of lemon and a handful of parsley at the end keep it bright instead of heavy.
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화이트 치킨 칠리
White chicken chili is the pale, creamy cousin of the red bowl: tender shredded chicken, white beans, and roasted green chiles in a cumin-scented broth finished with cream cheese and a squeeze of lime. Poaching the chicken breasts right in the simmering broth keeps them juicy and seasons the soup at the same time, while mashing a cup of the beans thickens the pot naturally—no flour, no cornstarch. The result is rich but bright, with gentle poblano heat you can dial up or down.
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멀리거토니 수프
Mulligatawny is the Anglo-Indian "pepper water" soup: a curried chicken and red lentil soup brightened with apple, finished with coconut milk, and served over basmati rice. The lentils collapse as they simmer, thickening the broth naturally so you get a velvety, spoon-coating texture without any flour or cream. Blooming the curry powder and whole aromatics in ghee before the liquid goes in is what gives the soup its deep, toasty backbone.
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토마토 비스크
This tomato bisque is the silky, restaurant-style upgrade to classic tomato soup: deeply savory from slow-cooked onion and caramelized tomato paste, then blended velvet-smooth and finished with heavy cream. Building a light butter-and-flour roux right in the pot gives the soup real body, so the cream enriches rather than thins it. Canned whole peeled tomatoes deliver reliable, concentrated flavor any month of the year.
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브런즈윅 스튜
Brunswick stew is the Southern barbecue joint classic: shredded chicken and smoky pulled pork simmered with tomatoes, corn, lima beans, and potatoes until the pot turns thick enough to hold a spoon upright. Poaching the chicken right in the stew base seasons the broth from the inside out, and a long, low final simmer lets the potatoes break down slightly to give the stew its signature spoonable, almost-porridge body. It is sweet, tangy, and smoky all at once — a full plate of barbecue in a single bowl.
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햄 감자 수프
A creamy, old-fashioned ham and potato soup that turns leftover holiday ham into a weeknight dinner worth planning for. Tender chunks of potato and browned, salty-sweet ham float in a velvety broth that gets its body from a quick butter-and-flour white sauce whisked in at the end, so the soup thickens silkily without ever turning gluey. Browning the ham first builds a savory base most versions skip, and mashing a few potato chunks against the pot gives every spoonful a rustic, chowder-like texture.
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베이크드 포테이토 수프
All the pleasures of a loaded baked potato — crispy bacon, sharp cheddar, sour cream, and scallions — folded into a thick, velvety soup. Baking the russets first (instead of boiling) drives off moisture and concentrates their earthy, toasty flavor, so the soup tastes like an actual baked potato rather than watered-down mash. A quick roux plus partially mashed potato flesh gives it body that's creamy but never gluey.
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칼도 데 레스 (멕시코식 소고기 수프)
Caldo de res is the big, restorative Mexican beef soup built on bone-in shank simmered until the marrow enriches the broth and the meat pulls apart, with corn on the cob, chayote, carrots, potatoes, zucchini, and cabbage added in stages so each lands perfectly tender. Starting the shank in cold water and holding the pot at a bare simmer keeps the broth clear and deeply beefy instead of greasy or cloudy. A last-minute shower of raw onion, cilantro, and lime wakes the whole bowl up.
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