Traditional 100 Soup List (With Short Descriptions)
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Below you can find 100 traditional Turkish soups with short descriptions and divided into categories. Categories are classified as; meat soups, vegetable soups, legume soups, yogurt soups, grain/flour soups, seafood soups and special/local soups.
🥩 Meat and Bone Broth Soups
Tripe Soup – Soup made with beef tripe, served with garlic and vinegar.
Kelle Paça Soup – A highly nutritious soup prepared with sheep’s head and feet.
Tandır Soup – A hearty soup made with cubed meat and bone broth.
Beyran Soup (Gaziantep) – Morning soup made with rice, meat and hot pepper.
Meat Tarhana – Classic tarhana soup enriched with meat broth.
Düğün Soup – Traditional soup made with meat broth, seasoned with flour and yogurt.
Sakala Çarpan Soup – A local soup made with noodles and lentils and meat broth.
Bone Broth Soup – A healing soup prepared with marrow bones.
Chicken Broth Soup – A plain and light soup made with boiled chicken and rice.
Chicken Ezogelin – A version of Ezogelin soup with chicken added.
🥦 Vegetable Soups
Vegetable Soup – A light soup made with seasonal vegetables.
Tomato Soup – A classic soup made with tomato puree and milk.
Squash Soup – A delicious option made with grated zucchini and yogurt.
Potato Soup – A thick soup made with potatoes and carrots.
Spinach Soup – A vitamin store made with spinach and milk.
Leek Soup – A simple winter soup made with leeks and carrots.
Broccoli Soup – A modern take on broccoli, milk and cream.
Celery Soup – An aromatic soup made with celery, especially for the winter months.
Artichoke Soup – A light alternative made with artichoke hearts.
Mushroom Soup – A filling recipe made with cream and mushrooms.
🫘 Legume Soups
Lentil Soup – The most common type of soup made with red lentils.
Ezogelin Soup – A soup made with a mixture of lentils, rice and bulgur.
Green Lentil Soup – A nourishing soup made with green lentils and noodles.
Chicken Soup with Chickpeas – A local flavor made with chickpeas and chicken.
Bean Soup – A hearty soup made with beans and vegetables.
Black-Eyed Peas Soup – A healthy soup made with black-eyed peas, Aegean style.
Mung Bean Soup – A variety made with mung beans, unique to Gaziantep.
Red Lentil Vegetable Soup – Soup enriched with a mixture of vegetables and lentils.
Tarhana with Lentils – A local version prepared by adding lentils to tarhana.
Broad Bean Soup – A local recipe made with broad beans, Aegean style.
🍚 Yogurt and Seasoned Soups
Yayla Soup – A refreshing soup made with yogurt, rice and mint.
Ayran Aşı Soup – A mixture of yogurt, wheat and chickpeas, served cold.
Lebeniye Soup – A soup made with chickpeas, rice and yogurt, also available with meat.
Toyga Soup – A classic Anatolian soup with yogurt, chickpeas and wheat.
Van Yogurt Soup – A soup made with yogurt and flour, unique to Van.
Kesme Aşı Soup – A mixture of noodles, yogurt and mint.
Topalak Soup (Yogurt) – Yogurt seasoned, bulgur meatball soup.
Sour Meatball Soup – Seasoned meatball soup.
Strained Yogurt Soup – A thicker version made with strained yogurt.
Yoghurt Soup with Phyllo – Soup made with thin yufkas cooked with yogurt.
🌾 Grain, Flour and Noodle Soups
Tarhana Soup – Classic soup made with dried yogurt mixture.
Flour Soup – Simple but delicious soup prepared with roasted flour.
Vermicelli Soup – Light soup made with barley or vermicelli.
Bulgur Soup – Anatolian soup with bulgur and tomatoes.
Noodle Lentil Soup – Nourishing soup made with vermicelli and green lentils.
Couscous Soup – Vermicelli alternative made with small semolina balls.
Barley Wheat Soup – A slightly filling soup with wheat and chickpeas.
Roasted Flour Soup – With a mixture of flour and broth thick soup made with.
Bulgurlu Tarhana – Local variation of Tarhana soup.
Semolina Soup – An original recipe made with roasted semolina.
🐟 Seafood Soups
Fish Soup – Nourishing soup made with white meat fish.
Shrimp Soup – Soup prepared with shrimp, vegetables and spices.
Mussel Soup – A rich option made with mussels and vegetables.
Fish Stock Soup – A mixture of fish stock and vegetables.
Salmon Vegetable Soup – A special recipe made with salmon, potatoes and carrots.
🗺️ Local and Special Soups
Analı Kızlı Soup (Adana) – Special soup with big and small meatballs and chickpeas.
Bumbar Soup – Special soup made with stuffed intestines.
Mahluta Soup (Hatay) – Local flavor made with lentils, bulgur and garlic.
Gavurdağı Soup – Light soup with bulgur, mint and garlic.
Tirşik Soup (Kahramanmaraş) – Fermented soup made with wild beets and yogurt.
Babuko Soup (Black Sea) – Local soup with oats and corn flour.
Vinegar Soup (Afyon) – Meat soup flavored with vinegar.
Bici Soup (Yozgat) – A special mixture of flour, yogurt and mint.
Zahterli Soup (Hatay) – An aromatic soup made with za’ahter and lentils.
Tuzlama Soup (Eastern Anatolia) – Thick soup made with lamb’s feet and bone broth.
🗺️ Local and Special Soups (Continued)
Helle Soup (Kilis) – A local recipe made with wheat, yogurt and mint.
Siron Soup (Trabzon) – Made by cooking fried yufka with yogurt.
Dövme Soup (Eastern Anatolia) – A nutritious soup made with wheat for pudding.
Keşkek Soup – A more liquid version with Keşkek ingredients.
Mastuva (Erzurum) – A sweet soup made with milk, flour and butter.
Zingil Soup (Tunceli) – A local soup made with cracked wheat and yogurt.
Pelte Soup (Eastern Black Sea) – A local soup made with corn flour and yogurt.
Şalgamlı Soup (Hatay) – A special flavor prepared with radish and meat broth.
Tandır Aşı (Şanlıurfa) – A thick soup with cubed meat and bulgur.
Corti Soup (Erzincan) – Soup made with onion, yogurt and roasted meat.
🍵 Cold/Hot Seasonal and Alternative Soups
Cold Ayran Soup (Summer) – Soup served cold with wheat, chickpeas and mint.
Milk Vermicelli Soup – Soft-flavored soup made with milk and vermicelli.
Yoghurt Pumpkin Soup – A light alternative in the summer months.
Oatmeal Vegetable Soup – Fiber-rich soup made with oatmeal.
Meyaneli Soup (Kastamonu) – Old-fashioned soup made with flour, yogurt and egg marinade.
Tahini Soup (Southeast) – Winter soup enriched with tahini and lemon.
Kavurmalı Soup – A heavy soup made with roasted lamb pieces.
Strained Lentil Soup – A strained and smooth version of classic lentils.
Onion Soup (Anatolian Style) – A slightly sweet soup made with plenty of onions.
Eggplant and Tomato Soup – Aromatic tomato soup made with baked eggplant.
🧆 Meatball/Lump Soups
Sour Meatball Soup – Soup made with tiny meatballs and lemon sauce.
Watery Meatball Soup – Classic Anatolian dish made with rice meatballs.
Topalak Soup (Içli Köfteli) – Soup made with bulgur balls the size of içli köfte.
Yuvalama (Gaziantep) – Special holiday soup made with tiny meatballs, chickpeas and yogurt.
Misket Köfteli Vegetable Soup – Vegetable-rich, colorful and child-friendly soup.
Semolina Meatball Soup – Local soup made with meatballs kneaded with semolina.
Cızlak (Malatya) – Soup with chickpeas and tomato paste in the style of watery meatballs.
Köfteli Vermicelli Soup – Soup where vermicelli and meatballs meet.
Meatball Soup – Yogurt base with small meatballs added.
Fellah Meatball Soup – Soup made with bulgur meatballs in a minty, tomato sauce.
🔚 Original and Rare Soups
Pumpkin Soup – Especially suitable for winter with its sweet flavor.
Chestnut Chicken Soup – A special, luxurious soup for winter months.
Apple Soup – An unusual but traditionally based recipe with its sweet and sour flavor.
Hazelnut Yogurt Soup (Black Sea) – Soup cooked with yogurt and garnished with hazelnuts.
Walnut Tarhana (Yozgat) – A version of tarhana soup with crushed walnuts added.