5 Foods For When You’re Sick From Around the World

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[davidgilmoursnostril]

I love how the universal answer to sickness is soup

[partheshpandey]

for Indians it has to be khichri or something related to rice and lentils or rice porridges depending on the state, for north its khichari at least...and oh mann it hits differently when you're sick!!!

[emiliaw]

In Poland we cure ourselves with vodka and hot tea.

[nataliella]

during lockdowns me and my mom made SO MUCH matzo ball soup. it's an intensive process but the payoff is worth it, I can't recommend alison roman's new york times recipe enough. will definitely be trying the sierra leonean and korean dishes this winter!

[t.l.]

Thai green curry coconut soup, Vietnamese stew or congee is what I crave when I'm sick! But Lipton chicken noodles soup is what I grew up on lol

[elmosworld]

I eat my comfort foods they aren’t necessarily gonna actually make me feel better but mentally it helps. Broccoli cheddar soup and a baggete or veggie ramen

[Zenith_gnohp]

I agree with the last girl saying that dakjuk is like giving you a warm hug, it never fails to make me feel warm❤

[caroh]

I love how most of these meals are meant to be comforting and nutritious to gain strength, as well as warm or with spices that help you sweat the disease out.

[liltim]

Personally as a person living in America whenever I felt sick my mom would fill my bones with Double Chicken Noodle Soup

[Vanilla_Mexican]

It depends on how I’m feeling. If I am missing home and my Hispanic relatives I like caldo de res but if I don’t have the time effort or money for beef short ribs I’ll make chicken and dumplings haha

[mariyastephen]

In Kerala...it is hot Medicinal coffee named "chukku kappi...."

[marm]

I'm from the UK and whenever I was sick my parents would make me egg and soldiers. It's boiled egg with a gooey centre and strips of toast which are the "soldiers", it always makes me feel better and it's the only thing that tastes nice when you have a flu. Most people from the UK probably have an egg cup to put the egg in so it's easier to dip into, some of them are really pretty, I had one that looked like a flamingo :)

[marzipanmango]

My mom would make me plumimoos in winter when I had a cold, which is basically fruit soup. You take dried stonefruits (cherries, plums, apricots, etc.) and simmer them in water with spices like cinnamon or ginger. You can add lemon and sugar if you want it more sour or sweet, and add cornstarch if you want it to be thicker. It sounds weird but it's very good! You can also have it with ice cream for a dessert.

I'm a Mennonite Canadian. In the old country (Ukraine/Russia) they had lots of fruit orchards, so to preserve fruit for the winter they'd dry it. They made plumimoos because warm, plump fruit is much easier to eat than tough dry fruit!

[yerinessuriel-baez]

Chicken soup.. but the broth made from boiling celery, carrots, cilantro, onions, chicken bones and lots of garlic.

Once the broth is made, make the soup with fideos(small pasta bits) and add root vegetables(potatoes, taro, cassava, squash), more garlic and more cilantro and the chicken that was removed off the bones… if you want to make it extra special add in some plantain balls

Fry your plantains and garlic, mash it together with a mortar and pestle, add salt and lime juice … roll into little balls and toss in oil for a second fry to give it a crispy outer layer.

Serve with a wedge of lime and some white rice and avocado

[yourwitchbesti]

When we get sick my mom cooks a whole chicken with the spices in a pressure cooker. She takes out the chicken and sits it to the side and adds onion, green plantain, potato, carrot and cassava root. While she’s cooking the vegetables she shreds the chicken and then she puts the chicken in the pot for a few minutes, she serves it in a bowl with a scoop of rice and spinach

[tenwaystowearit]

I love sausage/potato/kale soup. It’s garlicky, creamy and sticks to the bones. I make mine a little spicy too so it’s perfect.

[rionachsayre]

I like how almost every country has a healing food in a hot, delicious and nutritionous soup form food

[nataliepeirce]

From the UK here! And my mum would always make fish finger sandwiches when anyone was ill.

[carlyeckert]

That matzah ball soup looks good. I like dumplings I juat haven't had one in a long time

[paulaj.]

I love how sick foods are either very mild or oops all peppers/spice. Campbell's chicken noodle, salties and a 7up was the go to for me as a kid. I thankfully, haven't had a cold since then pandemmy started, but I used to love pho for a cold.