Chorba

Chorba (Turkish: çorba, pronounced [tʃoɾˈba]) is one of various kinds of soup or stew found in national cuisines across the Balkans, North Africa, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East.

Spelling variants

Chorba is derived from a Persian term شوربا from shor ("salty, brackish") and ba ("stew").

Chorba is also called shorba (Persian: شوربا‎‎), (Amharic: ሾርባ^?), shorwa (Pashto: شوروا‎), ciorbă (Romanian: ciorbă), shurpa (Russian: шурпа), shorpa (Uyghur: شورپا‎), shorpo (Kyrgyz: шорпо), and sorpa (Kazakh: сорпа). In South Asia, the term shorba (Urdu: شوربہ‎, Hindi: शोरबा) simply means gravy.

Varieties

Begova čorba and somun bread

Begova čorba and somun bread

Bulgarian chorba

Bulgarian chorba

Cooking Kyrgyz shorpo

Cooking Kyrgyz shorpo

Serbian čorba

Serbian čorba

See also

References