Blood soup is any

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that uses

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as a principal ingredient.

List of blood soups

Examples of blood stew include: * Black soup, 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

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

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* '' Chornaja Poliwka'',

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ian soup made of

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or pig blood and clear broth * '' Czernina'', or Duck Blood Soup, a Polish soup made of

or pig blood and clear broth * '' Dinuguan'', a soup from the

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made of pig blood and pork offal or meat * Duck blood and vermicelli soup, a traditional delicacy in

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* ''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'', a traditional soup dish in Middle-

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* '' Prdelačka'', a traditional Czech pork blood soup made during the pig slaughter seasonCzech Radio (February 9, 2007)
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Accessed March 2012. * '' Saksang'', 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

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with

blood (or sometimes pig blood) as the main ingredient * '' Tiết canh'', a Vietnamese duck blood soup * Yawarlukru, An Ecuadorian speciality from the highlands region

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