This healthy soup recipe is perfect on a chilly day! Full of delicious naturally sweet squash and chestnuts, hearty aduki beans, as well as nourishing kale, it will warm you to the bone. Better yet? It’s a one pot meal that can be thrown together quickly, and it’s good for you too! This easy soup recipe is wonderful for those with gluten, dairy, and other allergies.
Over the last month I have received comments here from numerous people despondent over their dietary options, or lack thereof. The touching aspect? Each person thanks me profusely for this website, for providing them with options and offering new ways to enjoy the foods they can eat.
The heartbreaking aspect of these same emails? People express their feelings of loneliness and isolation. If you are feeling isolated because of your dietary restrictions (heck, I don’t eat soy, corn, potatoes, grains, and white sugar) then feel free to leave a comment right here sharing your trials and tribulations.
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Squash Aduki Chestnut Soup
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons grapeseed oil
- 1 leek, washed and chopped
- 1 cup butternut or acorn squash, peeled and cubed
- 2 quarts Chicken Stock , vegetable stock, or Kettle & Fire Bone Broth
- 1 cup aduki beans, cooked
- 1 cup cooked chestnuts
- 1 head kale, chopped
Instructions
- In a large pot, warm oil over medium-high heat
- Sauté leek for 10 minutes until soft
- Add squash and sauté for 5 minutes
- Pour stock into pot and bring to a simmer
- Add aduki beans, chestnuts and kale
- Simmer for ½ hour to allow flavors to meld
- Serve
Equipment
Here in Colorado, it is cold and snowy yet again! Today, I will be making another big pot of this Squash Aduki Chestnut Soup to warm my bones. I love this healthy soup recipe!
Jeanne says
Being new to this dietary restriction thing, I am curious as to how other people came to know their sensitivity to foods.
It’s been a confounding process for me! The doctors (of western medicine) do not help here. I have had good nutritional advice from a chiropractic neurologist here in the SF bay area (Dr. Jim Otis) but have had to work out my diet mainly on my own with very little guidance. I’ve learned that my body is the best judge, but that has been a rough path of trial and error. I’ve gotten down to the basic foods-organic veggies and fruit, organic meats, nuts, seeds, and goat milk (is that really all?!!!) I still use honey and some sugar but in minimal amounts, and I stay away from soy mostly (but use some wheatfree tamari).
Since it has only been about 9 months now, and I feel so much better, I am still trying to piece together what is happening to my body. Why am I so sensitive? I am 47 and wondering, does this happen often? I had such a drastic decline in my general health over the last 5 years. My immune system crashed in September.
I did a bit of testing for celiac, not clear on that front. But I do worry about my daughter who is 9 1/2 yrs and teeny tiny (49 lbs) I try to feed her the food I eat but she’s all over the place with her diet, still on gluten. I could get her tested for celiac. I don’t know if the standard tests at Kaiser are reliable or if we should go elsewhere for testing.
So, I am still looking for answers and don’t always know where to turn.
thanks for reading
CeliacChick says
Elana- Aww…*blush*…thank you!
Another idea is to steer discouraged people toward their local Meetups.com Celiac Disease Group where they can meet and encourage others in their local area along with sharing tips on coping.
Re:Moderating- I’m not sure. If you recall, we had a messageboard/forum and had to pull the plug because it kept getting spammed with porn and I didn’t know how to keep up with THAT! Some of it was really bad and I didn’t even want to look at it while deleting the stuff. *sigh* Maybe if it is through YahooGroups they have built in filters.
elana says
K -Thanks for your comment. I will check foodallergykitchen and also refer people there. Yes, gluten-free girl does offer so much more than food, her narrative is so compelling.
I despair when people send me emails describing their distress and isolation; sometimes after reading these I feel sad. At this point, I am pleased with the comments that have begun emerging over here. My hope is that people begin to speak with each other/share in the comment section.
Meanwhile, you are my favorite gluten-free activist and I want everyone to check out your post here:
http://celiacchicks.typepad.com/celiacchicks/2008/04/disturbing-glut.html
I wonder what it would be like to moderate a group together. Not sure I can take much more on, though the idea is intriguing…BTW, am eating one of your simple bars right now as I write this comment.
Ya'ara says
Hi Elana,
I ment to say “matza flour”.. ?
Matza flower is simply grind matza. Not very tasty…
CeliacChick says
Hello!
Maybe we should start a group that is gf/cf and relatively healthy without cornsyrup,refined sugars,white refined flours and anything artificial? Yahoo groups are great! Maybe one already exists like this that we don’t know about? I also like:FOODALLERGYKITCHEN@yahoogroups.com
Also, dont’ be too discouraged about all of GFGirl’s comments. She has a warm/fuzzy following due to her very personal romance based blog posts. I think this draws a more comments oriented mushy crowd- and that is nice. However, I think on other blogs, like yours and mine, there are plenty of people that appreciate them, but just want useful information and are not necessarily into the whole internet social networking/community thing. It doesn’t mean that they don’t appreciate the information and when something important, like gf pizza or beer(HA;) comes out they’ll write tons of comments!!
elana says
Freedom –Thanks for the great idea, I will make sure to check out delphi forums
Robin –You are so sweet to share your story, thanks. I know what you are going through. I remember when my son was 2 (prior to his celiac diagnosis) and every party was pizza and cake. Now (almost 8 years later) it is easier. I cook quite a bit and bring him birthday treats whenever there is a party (less parties at this age -phew). Often the other children want some of what he has, so I make sure to send extra. We’ve all adjusted pretty well at this point.
mama4ever –I can completely relate to your cooking disaster, been there myself many times with the glop that never finishes setting, no matter how long it bakes. I guess that’s part of the practice of experimenting…
Ya’ara –I always love to hear from you; in addition to spring cleaning it is also tax season here so people are pretty busy. Glad you enjoyed the matza ball recipe –btw, what is marza flour? I am so curious…
Ya'ara says
Hi Elana,
I guess everyone is busy with spring cleaning..
I have many stories to share, but also caught up in the preperations for the holydays.. plus I have started a new job today..
P.S
I tried your matza balls recipe and they turned out great!!
I added more almond flower and “marza flower”
to “firm them up..
Of course I started by altering one ingridient and finished by creating a whole new recipe… :)
Thank you for your wonderful ideas!!
mama4ever says
Sorry that I didn’t send a comment back to you when I received this email I got side tracked with the recipe :-). I love your website. My son and I are new at this gluten, wheat free thing. I have really appreciated the recipes and information that you have provided. I’ve had one cooking disaster since cooking GF/Wheat free. I tried making my first loaf of zucchini bread and I baked it for 3 hours, LOL, and it still was not done in the middle. I don’t know what happened but it was rock hard on the outside and liquid on the inside. I am going to try again though. Hope you have a wonderful Sunday and God Bless.
Cindi Johnson says
Ha! :) That makes me feel SO much better!
Robin Rivers says
I feel so bad that I didn’t comment after reading this post yesterday. Got distracted. But, I really did mean to.
Our biggest dilemma is figuring out how to actually attend public events that are kid-centered as our daughter is gluten, dairy and soy intolerant and EVERY event we ever get invited to seems to be pizza or donuts.
We have had many a disaster trying out different flour mixtures, with our biggest success the mix from savorypalate.com
Whenever we go to a party, we bring our homemade rice bread, which goes over amazingly well.
Freedom says
Since you want to start your own community, might I suggest delphi forums? I belong to a support group on there for people with FMS/CFS and its awesome! Its totally free to sign up and you never get spam. Here is a link to my support group so you can check it out and see how it works….
http://forums.delphiforums.com/fmsupport/messages
If it goes to an ad, somewhere on the page it should say “skip this ad” click on it.
You can even associate this website with it if you pay for a plus forum.