Chorba

Chorba

Type	Soup or stew
Cookbook: Chorba Media: 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").^[1]

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

Varieties

Bosnian čorba and somun bread
Bulgarian chorba
Cooking Kyrgyz shorpo
Serbian čorba

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shorpa.

↑ Alan Davidson (21 September 2006). The Oxford Companion to Food. OUP Oxford. pp. 2055–. ISBN 978-0-19-101825-1.

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Chorba

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