Soups & Stew Recipes

Swedish bread soup made from stale bread, onions, and stock, strained into a smooth, nutmeg-scented broth and topped with grated cheese. Simple Scandinavian comfort food.

Chicken mulligatawny soup: a curried Anglo-Indian classic with carrots, celery, apple, rice, and tender chicken in a spiced broth. Comfort food with serious depth.

Milzsuppe is a traditional Bavarian and Austrian spleen soup built on butter-browned onions, scraped spleen, and a whisper of roux. Rustic peasant cookery with deep, iron-rich flavor.

Traditional Swiss Basle flour soup (Basler Mehlsuppe) made with just butter, flour, and stock. The flour is toasted to a deep chestnut brown for a rich, nutty flavor topped with grated cheese and nutmeg.

Light Italian-style chicken dumplings with lemon zest and nutmeg poached in a bright lemony broth. A comforting, elegant soup ready in 40 minutes that feels like a warm hug.

Old-school chicken foot soup with sauteed breast meat, carrots, onions, garlic, and herbs simmered in a roux-thickened broth with white wine. Rich, collagen-loaded comfort food served over rice.

Flaedle are thin German pancakes made from a simple flour, egg, and milk batter, fried golden and sliced into ribbons for a classic Swabian pancake soup.

Try this tasty dish made with imitation crab, potatoes and green bell peppers.

Rich cheese soup loaded with sharp aged cheddar, tender vegetables, and optional ham. Creamy Wisconsin-style soup with carrots, celery, mushrooms, and spicy kick.

Traditional Norwegian spinach soup (Spinatsuppe) built on a rich chicken stock and thickened with a butter roux. Garnished with sliced hard-cooked eggs for a classic Scandinavian touch, ready in about an hour.

Turkey A La King served in crispy whole wheat bread cups with a creamy vegetable-rich sauce. Classic comfort food made with leftover turkey and frozen peas.

Beef Carbonnade Soup with Spatzle: a Belgian-meets-German hybrid soup with beer-braised beef, vegetables, and homemade nutmeg-scented egg spatzle dumplings. Three-hour simmer.

Greek avgolemono-style lemon chicken soup thickened with egg yolks and a butter-flour roux. Silky, tangy, and loaded with rice and tender chicken.

Orjaleves is a traditional Hungarian wedding soup made with beef bones, pork, saffron broth, root vegetables, and handmade spiral egg noodles. A rich, celebratory first course.

Tangy brown lentil soup brightened with vinegar and fragrant with coriander and garlic. Vegan, budget-friendly, and on the table in under an hour. A Middle Eastern kitchen staple.

Traditional Welsh bacon cawl: slow-simmered collar bacon with root vegetables, leeks, and parsley, served with mustard egg sauce, spiced tomato ketchup, and parsley chive sauce.