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Sour soup

Spicy sour soup flavoured with tamarind, dried shrimps, and salted soy beans
Type	Soup
Variations	Many

Sour soups are a type of soup known for their tangy, sharp taste. This sourness comes from special ingredients like tamarind, lemon, vinegar, or fermented vegetables. These delicious and often refreshing soups are popular in many parts of the world, especially in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe.

Sour Soups from Asia

Many countries in Asia have their own unique sour soups. They often use fresh ingredients and local spices to create their special flavors.

• Canh chua is a famous sour soup from Vietnam. It means "sour soup" in Vietnamese. This soup is often made with fish, pineapple, tomatoes, and bean sprouts, giving it a mix of sweet, sour, and savory tastes.
• Sinigang is a popular sour soup from the Philippines. It is known for its strong sour taste, usually from tamarind. People often make it with meat like pork or beef, and lots of vegetables.
• Hot and sour soup is a well-known soup from China. It gets its sourness from vinegar and its spiciness from chili peppers. It often contains mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and tofu.
• Tom yum is a spicy and sour soup from Thailand. It is very famous worldwide. It is made with ingredients like lemongrass, galangal, kaffir lime leaves, fresh chili, and lime juice. It can be made with shrimp or chicken.
• Sayur asem is a traditional sour vegetable soup from Indonesia. It uses tamarind for its sour flavor and is packed with different vegetables like corn, peanuts, and melinjo.
• Lemon rasam is an Indian sour soup. It is made with lemon juice, giving it a bright and tangy flavor.
• Ikan kuah kuning is an Indonesian sour fish soup.
• Sour soup fish is a special dish from Guizhou cuisine in southern China.

Sour Soups from Eastern Europe

Eastern European countries also have many types of sour soups, often using fermented ingredients like sauerkraut or pickled vegetables to create their unique sourness.

• Borscht is a very famous soup from Eastern Europe, especially in Ukraine and Russia. It is often made with beetroot, which gives it a deep red color. The sour taste comes from adding sour beet, fermented beet juice, or sour cream.
• Kapusniak is a Ukrainian and Polish soup. It is made from sour cabbage (sauerkraut), millet, and potatoes, usually cooked in a meat broth.
• Sour shchi is a type of sour cabbage soup from Russian cuisine. It is a traditional and hearty soup.
• Rassolnik is a traditional Russian soup. It gets its sour and salty taste from pickled cucumbers.
• Sorrel soup is a light green soup made with sorrel leaves, which naturally have a sour taste.
• Solyanka is a thick, spicy, and sour soup from Russian and Ukrainian cuisine. It can be made with meat, fish, or mushrooms and often includes pickled cucumbers and olives for its sour flavor.
• Okroshka is a cold Russian soup. It is traditionally made with kvass, a fermented drink, which gives it a unique sour and refreshing taste.
• Sour rye soup is known as żur in Belarus and Poland, and kyselo in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. It is made from a sour starter, often from fermented rye flour.

Sour Soups from Romania and Moldova

In Romania and Moldova, sour soups are a very important part of their food culture.

• Borș is a term from the historic region of Moldavia. It refers to a special fermented wheat bran liquid. This borș is an essential ingredient used to make many sour soups, which are generally called Ciorbă in Romania. So, borș is the souring agent, and ciorbă is the name for the sour soup itself.

See also

• List of soups