Suaasat is a traditional Greenlandic

Greenlandic cuisine

Greenlandic cuisine is traditionally based on meat from marine mammals, game, birds, and fish, and normally contains high levels of protein. Since colonization and the arrival of international trade, the cuisine has been increasingly influenced by Danish and Canadian cuisine...

 soup. It is often made from seal, or from whale, reindeer, or sea-birds.

The soup often includes onions and potatoes and is simply seasoned with salt and pepper or bay leaf

Bay leaf

Bay leaf refers to the aromatic leaf of the bay laurel . Fresh or dried bay leaves are used in cooking for their distinctive flavor and fragrance. The leaves are often used to flavor soups, stews, braises and pâtés in Mediterranean cuisine...

. The soup is often thickened with rice or by soaking barley in the water overnight so that the starches leach into the water.

Sources

• Harlan Walker. Disappearing foods: studies in foods and dishes at risk : proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1994. Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food Series. Prospect, 1995. ISBN 0907325629, 9780907325628 . Pg 89