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From two-day borscht to 10-minute miso. Broth, grain, vegetable — the oldest architecture in cooking, still the most forgiving.

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Beef and Vegetable Soup

Cheap, tough beef cuts braised low and slow in broth with root vegetables until the meat is tender enough to break with a spoon. The collagen from those cuts dissolves into the broth over time and makes it thick and glossy. Expensive steaks make thin, bland soup.

120 min380 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🇺🇦UkraineAdvanced

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Borscht

Borscht is a traditional Ukrainian soup made from beets, cabbage, potatoes, carrots and meat. Its deep red color and rich taste make it popular not only in Ukraine, but also in many other countries.

125 min280 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free🥑Keto

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Bouillabaisse

Bouillabaisse is a famous fish soup from Provence, originating from the port city of Marseille. It is a flavorful broth with various types of fresh fish and seafood, flavored with herbs and spices.

95 min450 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Bún Bò Huế (Spicy Vietnamese Beef and Lemongrass Noodle Soup)

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Bún Bò Huế (Spicy Vietnamese Beef and Lemongrass Noodle Soup)

Bún bò Huế is a fiery red Vietnamese noodle soup from the central city of Huế, the former imperial capital. The broth is built on a long simmer of beef shank, pork ribs, beef bones, lemongrass, charred aromatics, and pineapple, then finished with mắm ruốc (Huế-style fermented shrimp paste) and a separate annatto-lemongrass sate sauce that gives the soup its signature crimson colour and heat. Thick round rice noodles, sliced beef shank, and herbs (Thai basil, Vietnamese coriander, mung bean sprouts, banana blossom) finish the bowl. Compared to phở, bún bò Huế is bolder, spicier, and more aromatic — phở's louder cousin from central Vietnam. Active work 30 minutes, simmer 3.5 hours. Serves 8 generous bowls.

240 min580 kcal8 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free

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Butternut Squash Soup

Roasted butternut squash blended with garlic, onion, and a touch of cream. Roasting is what separates a deep, caramelized soup from a flat one — don't skip it.

60 min210 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

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Cabbage and White Bean Soup

Green cabbage and cannellini beans in a tomato-herb broth with carrots and celery. The beans break down slightly as they cook, thickening the broth from the inside. About 12g of fiber per serving. Inexpensive, keeps all week.

40 min260 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein🥑Keto

Caldo Verde (Portuguese Greens and Chouriço Soup)

🇵🇹PortugalMedium

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Caldo Verde (Portuguese Greens and Chouriço Soup)

Caldo verde is the Portuguese potato soup carrying threads of finely shredded greens and rounds of chouriço. The base is blended completely smooth, the greens are cut one or two millimetres wide and cooked for five minutes at the end so they stay green.

45 min260 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free

🇻🇳VietnamAdvanced

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Canh Chua (Vietnamese Sour Soup)

A southern Vietnamese sour soup from the Mekong Delta: a tamarind-based broth balanced with pineapple sweetness and fish sauce umami, filled with fish steaks or shrimp, tomatoes, okra, bean sprouts, and taro stem, finished with crispy fried garlic and a crown of fresh herbs. The soup's defining quality is the precise calibration of four tastes — sour (tamarind), sweet (pineapple), salty (fish sauce), and savory (the fish) — in a broth that is light but deeply flavoured. Catfish is traditional; salmon, snapper, or tilapia all work. Canh chua is eaten at every meal of the day in southern Vietnamese homes, almost always alongside cá kho tộ (caramelized fish in clay pot) and steamed white rice.

40 min280 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

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Chicken Noodle Soup

Chicken noodle soup is a classic American dish that is perfect for cold days. It combines tender pieces of chicken, flavorful vegetables and hearty noodles.

110 min200 kcal4 serves

🇬🇪GeorgiaAdvanced

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Chikhirtma

A Georgian chicken soup with almost no vegetables, thickened with egg yolks to a velvety, golden creaminess and soured with vinegar. Saffron colours it and cilantro gives it its Georgian character; it is a Kakhetian winter dish and a famous hangover cure.

75 min260 kcal6 serves

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Chili

Chile con carne is a traditional Mexican dish — a spicy soup with beef, beans and tomatoes. Perfect for the cold season as it is warming and satiating.

55 min420 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

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Cioppino

A San Francisco seafood stew of Italian-American origin: Dungeness crab, clams, mussels, shrimp, and white fish simmered in a tomato-and-white-wine broth scented with fennel and garlic. Born as a fishermen's communal pot, it is served with sourdough for soaking up the broth.

50 min360 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

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