Kind of soup
10 clear & light soups in Soupmap Recipes, including Miso soup, Tom yum goong and Hamaguri ushiojiru. Tested recipes with honest timings, a servings scaler and timers.
10 recipes
Japan · Clear & light
Miso soup
Tofu and wakame in a freshly made kombu-and-katsuobushi dashi, with the miso stirred in off the boil. The everyday Japanese soup, made properly.
Photo: Brücke-Osteuropa, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Thailand · Clear & light
Tom yum goong (Thai hot and sour prawn soup)
A quick stock from the prawn shells, loaded with lemongrass, galangal, lime leaf and chilli, then sharpened with lime juice off the heat. Hot, sour, salty and fragrant all at once.
Photo: OpenCage, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
Japan · Clear & light
Hamaguri ushiojiru (clear clam soup)
Clams started in cold water with kombu and seasoned with little more than salt, sake and a drop of light soy. A pale, sea-sweet broth, and the traditional soup for the Doll Festival.
Photo: Ocdp, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Japan · Clear & light
Kakitamajiru (Japanese egg-drop soup)
A clear dashi seasoned with light soy, salt and mirin, barely thickened so beaten egg sets in soft, floating clouds. A gentle Japanese soup, in the bowl in 25 minutes.
Photo: Masahiko OHKUBO from Kobe, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Japan · Clear & light
Ozoni (Kanto-style New Year soup)
Grilled square mochi in a clear dashi seasoned with soy and salt, with chicken, greens, carrot and kamaboko. The Tokyo-area bowl for the first morning of the year.
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South Korea · Clear & light
Samgyetang (ginseng chicken soup)
A whole small chicken stuffed with sticky rice, garlic, jujubes and ginseng, simmered in a clear broth until it falls apart. You season it yourself at the table.
Photo: Korea.net / Korean Culture and Information Service (Jeon Han), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
China · Clear & light
Tomato and egg drop soup
Ripe tomatoes cooked down in oil until jammy, simmered into a sweet-sour broth and finished with silky egg ribbons and sesame oil. China's everyday soup, in 25 minutes.
Photo: NNU-10-HanRongrong, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
India · Clear & light
Tomato rasam
A thin, sour, peppery South Indian soup of tamarind and tomato, seasoned with freshly ground spices and finished with a sizzling tadka of mustard seed, cumin and curry leaves.
Photo: Mailz2kumar, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Italy · Clear & light
Stracciatella (Roman egg-drop soup)
Hot chicken broth with eggs, parmigiano, semolina and nutmeg whisked in so they set into soft "little rags". Rome's fastest soup, on the table in 15 minutes.
Photo: Mike.lifeguard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mexico · Clear & light
Sopa de lima (Yucatecan lime soup)
Yucatán's clear chicken soup: charred onion and garlic, a whisper of cinnamon, allspice and clove, shredded chicken, crisp tortilla strips and the bitter perfume of the local lime.
Photo: AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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