https://thewoksoflife.com/category/recipes/soups-and-stocks/ a culinary genealogy Wed, 16 Apr 2025 20:03:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://thewoksoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-TWOL-favicon-4-32x32.png https://thewoksoflife.com/category/recipes/soups-and-stocks/ 32 32 https://thewoksoflife.com/tom-kha-gai-thai-coconut-chicken-soup/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/tom-kha-gai-thai-coconut-chicken-soup/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2025 01:00:09 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=85574 Tom Kha Gai is a delicious Thai coconut chicken soup that’s emblematic of Thai cuisine’s harmonious balance of salty, sweet, sour, spicy, and bitter flavors.  This Tom Kha Gai recipe tastes just like what you might find at a particularly good Thai restaurant, and despite its complex taste, you can make it in about 30 ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/tom-kha-gai-thai-coconut-chicken-soup/feed/ 19 https://thewoksoflife.com/wonton-egg-drop-soup/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/wonton-egg-drop-soup/#comments Sun, 23 Mar 2025 15:34:08 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=85466 This Wonton Egg Drop Soup brings back memories of our family’s restaurant days. Why you may have only had it in a Chinese restaurant, it’s so simple to make at home. Just boil your favorite frozen wontons and ladle over this quick, perfectly golden egg drop soup for a delicious and fast meal any time ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/wonton-egg-drop-soup/feed/ 8 https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-noodle-soup/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-noodle-soup/#comments Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:52:54 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=85000 Make this quick and easy Chinese Noodle Soup recipe with pantry ingredients, water, and a few items from the fridge.  Grab an egg, tomato, and some pre-washed spinach. From the pantry, you just need dried noodles and some seasonings, and you’ll have a fast mid-week dinner, a quick lunch while working at home, or a ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-noodle-soup/feed/ 28 https://thewoksoflife.com/winter-vegetable-soup/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/winter-vegetable-soup/#comments Sun, 02 Feb 2025 16:07:05 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=84829 I make this winter vegetable soup recipe nearly weekly. Everyone who’s tasted it is amazed that I basically only use water and vegetables to make it. I’m even surprised at how all the ingredients come together so beautifully and easily. It’s amazing!  Let this healthy, vegetarian and vegan, nourishing vegetable soup warm you up through ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/winter-vegetable-soup/feed/ 45 https://thewoksoflife.com/tofu-soup/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/tofu-soup/#comments Sat, 14 Dec 2024 03:37:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=83938 This simple tofu soup recipe gets sweetness from napa cabbage and richness from a few eggs. It is deliciously warm and comforting, and incredibly easy to make.  With just 11 ingredients—most of which you probably already have in your kitchen (stock, water, white pepper, sesame oil, salt), you can make a tasty tofu soup that’s ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/tofu-soup/feed/ 29 https://thewoksoflife.com/mung-bean-soup/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/mung-bean-soup/#comments Thu, 08 Aug 2024 04:30:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=80740 This lightly sweet mung bean soup recipe is a summer staple in many Chinese families, thought to cool off the excess heat in the body.  We’ve been making it for years and can’t believe it’s taken this long for us to blog it. Today, we’re adding it to our collection of Chinese dessert soups!  What ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/mung-bean-soup/feed/ 11 https://thewoksoflife.com/mushroom-noodle-soup/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/mushroom-noodle-soup/#comments Thu, 01 Feb 2024 08:24:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=76097 This vegan mushroom noodle soup is made with three kinds of mushrooms to make the most deliciously potent broth.  It was inspired by a dish known as “double mushroom soup” (shuāng gū miàn, 双菇面) that I first tried in a Buddhist temple cafeteria in Shanghai. It carries on a long tradition of vegan and vegetarian ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/mushroom-noodle-soup/feed/ 6 https://thewoksoflife.com/postpartum-pig-feet-papaya-soup/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/postpartum-pig-feet-papaya-soup/#comments Fri, 22 Dec 2023 07:07:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=76808 If you read the words pig feet papaya soup and are still reading—thank you for the vote of confidence! You’d never think to put pork trotters and papaya in the same pot, but this soup is a traditional Chinese recipe designed to help new moms with milk production and postpartum recovery.  The powerful combination of ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/postpartum-pig-feet-papaya-soup/feed/ 12 https://thewoksoflife.com/leftover-thanksgiving-turkey-congee/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/leftover-thanksgiving-turkey-congee/#comments Thu, 23 Nov 2023 14:45:00 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=7015 Ok, people! I am pretty certain that you’ve never seen this take on Thanksgiving leftovers before, and I am super excited to let you in on our family tradition. For as long as I’ve known Bill and his family, which is almost 30 years now, Thanksgiving Turkey Congee (or jook) has been and will always ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/leftover-thanksgiving-turkey-congee/feed/ 152 https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-postpartum-confinement-porridge/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-postpartum-confinement-porridge/#comments Mon, 23 Oct 2023 05:28:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=75844 Today we have another recipe in our postpartum series—a lightly sweet postpartum porridge made with 7 nourishing Chinese ingredients. In Chinese, the porridge is called yuè zi zhōu (月子粥) which roughly translates to postpartum confinement porridge, and it’s especially meant for the first month after giving birth!  Give Chinese Dessert Soups a Try!  To be ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-postpartum-confinement-porridge/feed/ 18