Therese Sta. MariaBroth or soup recipes are the best comfort food in the world and you can’t change our minds. But what makes them even better is when they’re incorporated with healthy tasty veggies. Since almost every country has a traditional vegetable soup to be proud of, the food encyclopedia called TasteAtlas made it easier for travellers to narrow down their list of must-try vegetable soup dishes.
TasteAtlas is an excellent encyclopedia of flavours and a world atlas of traditional dishes, local ingredients, and authentic restaurants that you can all research and check on their website. Here’s how the experts in TasteAtlas ranked the best vegetable soups around the world!
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Top 20 vegetable soups in the world
- Sinigang from the Philippines – 4.8/5
- Skābeņu zupa from Latvia – 4.7/5
- Ogbono Soup from Nigeria – 4.7/5
- Kürbis Suppe from Austria – 4.7/5
- Fagiolata from Italy – 4.7/5
- Čorbast pasulj from Montenegro – 4.6/5
- Mercimek çorbası from Turkey – 4.6/5
- Ciorbă de praz from Romania – 4.6/5
- Caldo gallego from Spain – 4.6/5
- Sopa Tarasca from Mexico – 4.6/5
- Ciorbă de fasole from Romania – 4.5/5
- Vichyssoise from France – 4.5/5
- Lablabi from Tunisia – 4.5/5
- Fasolada from Greece – 4.5/5
- Sayur asem from Indonesia – 4.5/5
- Šaltibarščiai from Lithuania – 4.5/5
- Aukstā zupa from Latvia – 4.5/5
- Barszcz czysty czerwony from Poland – 4.4/5
- Sayur lodeh from Indonesia – 4.4/5
- Bessara from Morocco – 4.4/5
What’s sinigang?
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Sinigang ranked number one on the list and some of you might not have heard about it yet, but it’s a traditional soup dish in the Philippines that often gets overshadowed by the popular adobo. Make no mistake though, locals love sinigang and experienced travellers can’t get enough of it. It’s basically a sour Filipino soup that gets its flavour from sampalok or tamarind and a souring agent. Its other vegetable ingredients include water spinach, green pepper, cabbage, broccoli, eggplant, diced tomatoes, sliced onions, ginger, and green beans.
Since Filipinos are also meat lovers, sinigang has meat varieties such as pork, beef, and chicken sinigang. You might also find fish, milkfish, and shrimp sinigang in various Filipino restaurants. According to TasteAtlas, “With its sour lightness perfectly matching the harsh tropical heat of the country, sinigang is a unique soup that is a true representative of Filipino cuisine.”
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So, y’all know what to do the next time you visit the Philippines: Order a warm and hearty serving of sinigang! Do you have any dishes you want to recommend as one of the world’s best vegetable soups? Let us know about it on our Facebook page!
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