Blood soup is any

soup Soup is a primarily liquid food, generally served warm or hot (but may be cool or cold), that is made by combining ingredients of meat or vegetables with stock, milk, or water. Hot soups are additionally characterized by boiling solid ing ...

that uses

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as a principal ingredient.

List of blood soups

Examples of blood stew include: *

Black soup Black soup was a regional cuisine of ancient Sparta, made with boiled pork meat and blood, using only salt and vinegar to flavour. The soup was well known during antiquity in the Greek world, but no original recipe of the dish survives today.Macie ...

, a historical pork-blood soup of

Ancient Greek cuisine Ancient Greek cuisine was characterized by its frugality for most, reflecting agricultural hardship, but a great diversity of ingredients was known, and wealthy Greeks were known to celebrate with elaborate meals and feasts. The cuisine was found ...

particularly associated with ancient

Sparta Sparta ( Doric Greek: Σπάρτα, ''Spártā''; Attic Greek: Σπάρτη, ''Spártē'') was a prominent city-state in Laconia, in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (, ), while the name Sparta referre ...

. * Chicken and duck blood soup, a blood soup popular in

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

* '' Chornaja Poliwka'',

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...

ian soup made of

duck Duck is the common name for numerous species of waterfowl in the family Anatidae. Ducks are generally smaller and shorter-necked than swans and geese, which are members of the same family. Divided among several subfamilies, they are a form t ...

goose A goose ( : geese) is a bird of any of several waterfowl species in the family Anatidae. This group comprises the genera ''Anser'' (the grey geese and white geese) and '' Branta'' (the black geese). Some other birds, mostly related to the ...

pig The pig (''Sus domesticus''), often called swine, hog, or domestic pig when distinguishing from other members of the genus '' Sus'', is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal. It is variously considered a subspecies of ''Sus ...

blood and clear broth * '' Czernina'', or Duck Blood Soup, a

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soup made of

blood and clear broth * ''

Dinuguan ''Dinuguan'' () is a Filipino savory stew usually of pork offal (typically lungs, kidneys, intestines, ears, heart and snout) and/or meat simmered in a rich, spicy dark gravy of pig blood, garlic, chili (most often '' siling haba''), and vin ...

'', a soup from the

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made of pig blood and pork offal or meat *

Duck blood and vermicelli soup Duck blood and vermicelli soup () is a traditional delicacy of Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province, and is also eaten in other regions of China. A similar dish is eaten in Poland, Belarus, and Lithuania, where it's called ''czernina''. Legend Du ...

, a traditional delicacy in

Nanjing Nanjing (; , Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Nanking, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China. It is a sub-provincial city, a megacity, and the second largest city in the East China region. T ...

* ''Fritada'', a special type of dish cooked with goat (cabrito) blood, prepared in Northern Mexico, and a regional specialty in the city of

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. * '' Godlja'', a traditional Slovenian blood soup * '' Juka'', a Lithuanian blood soup from the

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region * ''

Mykyrokka Mykyrokka is a soup that is a typical traditional dish in eastern Finland ( Savo region). The main ingredient is ''myky'': a palm sized dumpling made from blood and barley flour. The dumplings are cooked in the soup. The soup also contains potatoe ...

'', a traditional soup dish in Middle-

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* ''

Prdelačka ''Prdelačka'' is a traditional Czech pork blood soup made during the pig slaughter season. It is prepared with pork blood pudding, potato, onion and garlic as primary ingredients. It is traditionally made as a part of pig slaughter. See also * ...

'', a traditional Czech

pork blood soup Pork blood soup is a soup that uses pork blood as its primary ingredient. Additional ingredients may include barley and herbs such as marjoram, as well as other foods and seasonings. Some versions are prepared with coagulated pork blood and other ...

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Saksang Saksang or sa-sang is a savory, spicy Indonesian dish from the Batak people. It is made from minced pork or dog meat (or, more rarely, water buffalo meat) stewed in its blood, coconut milk and spices; including kaffir lime and bay leaves, coria ...

'', a savory spicy dish from the Bataks of Indonesia made with pork or dog meat stewed in blood with coconut milk and spices * '' Schwarzsauer'', a German blood soup with various spices cooked in vinegar-water and a sort of black pudding made with vinegar. * '' Seonjiguk'', a

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n soup made with thick slices of congealed ox blood and vegetables in a hearty beef broth, known as a

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cure * '' Svartsoppa'', a soup consumed in

Scania Scania, also known by its native name of Skåne (, ), is the southernmost of the historical provinces of Sweden, provinces (''landskap'') of Sweden. Located in the south tip of the geographical region of Götaland, the province is roughly conte ...

with

blood (or sometimes pig blood) as the main ingredient * '' Tiết canh'', a Vietnamese duck blood soup *

Yawarlukru Yawarlukru or Yawar Lukru (Kichwa ''yawar'' blood, ''lukru'' soup,Vocabulario comparativo quechua ecuatoriano - quechua ancashino -- castellano - English (pdf), collected by Robert Beér, Armando Muyolema and Hernán S. Aguilar, 2006 "blood soup" ...

, An Ecuadorian speciality from the highlands region

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