Our Best Soups
21 Recipes
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Our Best Soups
21 Recipes
As the nights get longer, the JFS team heads to our kitchen to make our favorite soup recipes. We like to let them simmer on the stove for hours, perfuming our homes — and beckoning us to steal several tastes as they cook.
We aren’t alone. When we ask families and cooks about their most treasured recipes for the JFS archive, soups are often one of the first things that come to mind. For generations, Jewish cooks made them with whatever ingredients they could grow or afford and used water or broth to stretch them to feed everyone around the table.
In a Syrian family, the go-to soup might be shorbat adas, an easy lentil soup recipe. In an Iraqi or Kurdish family, it might be kubbeh or meat-filled dumplings wrapped most often in semolina and plunged into broth. For Ashkenazi families, split pea, matzo ball, or chicken soup recipes are all classics.
You will find all of these and more of our best soup recipes in this collection. Do you have a favorite in your family? We’d love to hear about it. Plus, find more Jewish recipes here.
In this collection
21 Recipes