Seven soups every Saturday: breakfast soup recipes
When Soup-a-Woman, a Twitter friend and new blogger, challenged me to share breakfast soup recipes for the Saturday soup round-up, I knew right away where to look for them: in my memory of our first morning in Vietnam, eating pho while sitting on tiny plastic stools at a sidewalk cafe in Ho Chi Minh City. We've started our days with bowls of miso soup in Japan, too. Yet, for some reason, we tend not to have soup for breakfast when we're at home. For the life of me, I can't imagine why not.
Seven breakfast soup recipes caught my eye this week:
Tunisian chickpea soup (leblebi), from The Well-Seasoned Cook
Changua (Colombian egg and milk soup), from My Colombian Recipes
Finnish fruit soup, from She's in the Kitchen
Farmstand apple soup, from Inn Cuisine
Macaroni soup with ham (Hong Kong style breakfast), from Christine's Recipes
Pho ga (Vietnamese chicken noodle soup), from No Recipes
Jook: The next best thing to a hug from a Chinese mama, from Rants and Craves
Find more delicious breakfast soup recipes on Food Blog Search. Come back every Saturday for seven soup recipes to enjoy any day of the week.
[Photo of Changua by, and used with permission from, My Colombian Recipes.]
This is a real wake-up post, Lydia. Needs more thinking at my end.... I love the point of view, just have to get my head around it. Funny how we can know the concept, especially the miso soup, and not incorporate it into our daily practice.
Amazing! You killed the challenge. :) We're having our soup swap today and I guarantee I'll be eating some soup for breakfast!
It is interesting that so many countries eat soup for breakfast, but that people in the US don't think of it. I used to make miso soup for my kids served with a scoop of rice for breakfast as well as congee. I would love pho for breakfast everyday.
Once again you divined my thoughts....just yesterday I was thinking about the congee we had in China. There were variations depending on where we were. One, with spinach (I think it was spinach) was especially delicious. Your post encourages me to try these soups; oatmeal is getting a bit boring!
I have never had soup for breakfast. It is interesting that it is common in other countries, but not here.
Susan, this has made me think about miso soup, specifically, as well. I love having it for breakfast, but at home, I never do.
Soup-a-Woman, can't wait to hear about your Soup Swap.
Jeanette, I wonder why we don't have soup for breakfast in this country, especially when it's so easy to make ahead and have it hot and ready in the morning.
Marcia, I've never been a fan of congee, but I almost always have some sort of soup in my refrigerator, and I'm going to start considering it as a breakfast option more often.
Pam, I agree, and I think we should start some sort of a soup-for-breakfast movement here. It's so healthy.
I often crave soup for breakfast, especially hot and spicy kinds. But I can never convince my partner that crazy-hot pho ga is an acceptable alternative to eggs and toast. Thanks for the recipes, I'm definitely going to try several.
Dadolwch, I'd go for hot and spicy soups in the morning, too. In any other culture, we would have lots of options for soup breakfasts.