[1][3] Buridda's primary ingredients include seafood, fish broth, tomato, onion and garlic.

[3] Traditionally, the soup was served with gallette del marinaio (dry, round bread buns), which would be soaked in it.

[4] Buridda alla genovese is a variation that is prepared with the same base ingredients, and may also include shrimp and octopus.

[5] Cioppino is an Italian-American seafood stew invented in the 1800s in San Francisco by people from Genoa, and it is a type of buridda.

[6] Buridda is related to bourride, a fish soup of Provence and the burrida of Sardinia, a dish made of shark meat.