List of Italian soups facts for kids

Acquacotta

Buridda of cuttlefish and peas, a typical Ligurian dish

Minestrone

Pappa al pomodoro

This is a list of famous soups from Italy. Soups are often served as the first course in an Italian meal. In some parts of Italy, like Veneto, people eat more soup than pasta!

Awesome Italian Soups

• Acquacotta – This soup was originally a simple meal for farmers. People have been making and eating it for a very long time!
• Bagnun – This soup is mostly made with anchovies.
• Buridda – A tasty seafood soup or stew from Liguria, a region in northern Italy.
• Garmugia – This soup comes from Lucca in Tuscany, central Italy.
• Ginestrata – From Tuscany in northern Italy, this is a thin, lightly spiced soup made with eggs.
• Macaroni soup – A traditional Italian dish. Sometimes it's served with beans, and then it's called pasta e fagioli.
• Maccu – A Sicilian soup made with dried and crushed fava beans (also called broad beans) and fennel. It's a very old recipe!
• Minestra di ceci – This soup uses chickpeas as a main ingredient. It's very common in the Abruzzo region of central Italy.
• Minestra maritata or Italian wedding soup – A popular soup often called "wedding soup."
• Minestrone – A famous thick Italian soup. It's packed with vegetables and often has pasta or rice. Common ingredients include beans, onions, celery, carrots, and tomatoes.
• Panada – In northeastern Italy, this was a cheap meal for people in poor areas. It could be made richer with eggs, beef broth, and grated cheese. It was often given to elderly or sick people.
• Pappa al pomodoro – A thick Tuscan soup. It's usually made with fresh tomatoes, bread, olive oil, garlic, and basil.
• Ribollita – A very famous Tuscan soup. It's a hearty stew made with bread and vegetables. There are many ways to make it, but it always has leftover bread, cannellini beans, and simple vegetables like carrots, cabbage, and onions. Its name means 'reboiled'.
• Sciusceddu – This soup is made with meatballs and eggs as the main ingredients.
• Stracciatella – This soup has meat broth and small pieces of an egg mixture. The egg mixture is drizzled into boiling broth and stirred.
• Walnut soup – This soup is made in the Piedmont region of northern Italy, where many walnut trees grow.
• Zuppa alla modenese – Made with broth, spinach, butter, eggs, Parmesan cheese, nutmeg, and croutons.
• Zuppa del canavese – This soup includes white broth, tomato puree, butter, carrots, celery, onion, cauliflower, bacon fat, Parmesan cheese, parsley, and sage.
• Zuppa toscana – A hearty soup with Italian sausage, red peppers, white onion, bacon, garlic, chicken broth, heavy cream, and potatoes.

See also

• List of Italian dishes