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Multicultural Meal Plan: Favorite Soups From Around the World

March 17, 2014 by Marie-Claude

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Years ago, I have taken my family and embarked on our journey of virtually travelling around the world, exploring a new country, culture, or region each year. This virtual travel includes celebrating festivals, listening to traditional music, doing various crafts, and most tangibly: cooking and eating traditional and popular dishes. Just as these explorations have left a mark on our family’s traditions, various dishes have continued to make their way to our dinner table. Many of these are soup recipes.

Though spring is only days away, we are still enjoying comforting soups on most days to keep the cold at bay. Some of these soups are traditional recipes, while others are inspired by the dominant flavors of a cuisine. All are delicious and warming.

China

Wonton Soup

Wonton Soup This classic Chinese soup is delicious, and can be very filling, depending on how many wontons you have in your bowl. Our whole family partakes in making the wontons, which gives us some fun, quality time together. Even with help, making wontons can be time consuming, so I’ve begun doubling the filling and therefore wontons, spacing them out on a tray, freezing them overnight, then placing all the wontons in a large ziplock (freezing them individually initially ensures the wontons don’t stick together). When we crave wonton soup, or for a quick dinner, I heat up the broth, and take as many wontons as I’d like from our frozen stock (usually 5 per person) and add them to the broth.

Ireland

Irish Coddle

Irish Coddle Traditionally more of a stew, we like it with so much added broth, it comes close to being a soup. Layers of potato, sausages, carrots and onions braise for at least three hours in beef broth. Delicious, comforting, and especially good with Irish soda bread, fresh from the oven – bread easy enough for kids to make.

France

Classic French Onion Soup There is something so soothing about hot, french onion soup, topped with cheese laden bread. There are many recipes for this soup, that differ in complexity, and the one we use is fairly simple. You just need to give the onions time to caramelize. I use whatever red wine I have on hand, and because I don’t have special french onion soup bowls, we put slices of baguette covered in cheese in the oven, which are placed over the soup after its been ladled in a bowl. My eldest daughter doesn’t eat onions, but still enjoys the broth with many slices of french bread 🙂

Mexico

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Mexican Chicken Soup This is a healthy, tasty soup inspired by Mexican flavors with cumin, cilantro, tomatoes and avocado. It’s a great use of leftover chicken, and I usually use a can of diced tomatoes with herbs (rather than fresh the fresh tomatoes the recipe calls for). Though our youngest doesn’t enjoy sweet potatoes she also loves this soup, which makes it a great way to include this healthy vegetable. The girls especially appreciate the toasted tortilla strips (you can use corn or wheat), and use lots of cheese. We put a plate out with various toppings (tortilla strips, shredded cheese, diced avocado, sliced green onions, cilantro and hot sauce) and everyone adds their favorites.

Greece

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 This classic Greek soup is refreshing and delicious, featuring the lemon flavor Greek cuisine loves. It is made with chicken stock, a starch (rice or orzo pasta), eggs, lemon and can include shredded chicken to make it extra filling. We were all frankly surprised at how much we enjoyed this soup (yellow soup with lemons?), and it has become a family favorite.

India

Mulligatawny Soup Another great way to use leftover chicken, this soup is flavorful with curry and light and creamy from the coconut milk. You can also make it vegetarian by replacing the chicken with red lentils, and using vegetable stock. Those of us who appreciate spice sprinkle extra cayenne pepper in our own soup bowls. This soup is great enjoyed with warm Naan bread.

West Africa

sweet potato and peanut soup

Our latest soup discovery, Sweet Potato & Peanut soup,  is influenced by West African flavors of tomato and peanuts. It turned out to be more “inspired” than authentic, but so delicious, especially for the adults, that we are looking forward to making it again, and again. I recommend tasting it as it’s being made, starting with a small amount of peanut butter and adjusting it to taste. We are going to be making it as a vegetarian dish the next time my mother comes over for supper.

Canada

Fricot au poulet

And from our home country, Fricot au Poulet is a classic French Canadian soup which is essentially a delicious chicken soup with dumplings. This is one of those recipes that transports my husband back to his childhood, and we hope, will do the same for our girls.

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Multicultural Kid BloggerMarie-Claude is the parent of two incredible girls. Over the years, they have immersed themselves virtually in various cultures. This year they have been exploring the cultures of West Africa, which is being chronicled on her blog at mariespastiche.blogspot.com.

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Marie-Claude is parent of two teen girls. Over the years, they have immersed themselves virtually in various cultures. This year they have been exploring the cultures of West Africa, which is being chronicled on her blog at www.mariespastiche.blogspot.com.

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Comments

  1. Lisa Lewis, MD says

    March 17, 2014 at 7:23 am

    Each of these recipes are so healthy, and look delicious!

    • Marie-Claude says

      March 17, 2014 at 7:46 am

      Thanks Lisa, they are delicious! We’re making Avgolemono tonight 🙂

  2. Katie Harding says

    March 17, 2014 at 9:39 am

    Great post. I’ll have to try the one from Greece! Sounds unexpectedly delicious!

  3. Marie-Claude says

    March 17, 2014 at 10:02 am

    Thanks Katie! It’s always a treat when food we are wary of turns out unexpectedly delicious – it certainly isn’t always the case!

  4. Kali @ For the Love of Spanish says

    March 18, 2014 at 5:49 am

    These look awesome! I love soups and can’t wait to try some of these. Thanks for putting such a great international list together. 🙂

    • Marie-Claude says

      March 18, 2014 at 6:02 am

      Thanks Kalie! I nearly live off of soup over the winter, so it’s nice to explore new soups from various countries.

  5. PragmaticMom says

    March 19, 2014 at 4:26 pm

    Yum. I love soup and this is exactly the kind of soup I like. We are still having a cold spell here in Boston so this post will come in handy! Thanks Marie Pastiche!!

    • Marie-Claude Leroux says

      March 20, 2014 at 6:03 am

      I’m watching the snow as I write – we are still very much enjoying hot soup for suppers! I hope you get a chance to enjoy some of the recipes 🙂

  6. Jody says

    March 27, 2014 at 4:50 am

    Yum!! I love soup – thank you for sharing these!!

    • Marie-Claude says

      April 12, 2014 at 1:02 pm

      Thanks Jody 🙂

  7. Marta ABB says

    April 9, 2014 at 11:57 pm

    Woldwide comfort food to face the cold 🙂 Thanks for the ideas! Sharing it on twitter.
    Marta

    • Marie-Claude says

      April 12, 2014 at 1:02 pm

      Thanks Marta! Hoping it won’t be cold much longer!

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