A visitor looking for gluten free recipes commented that my website looks promising and suggested that I label some of my soup recipes as gluten free.
Another visitor called Steven commented that some of my chinese soup recipes are great for celiacs who practically must live on rice.
At that time I did not know that these 2 comments were related. To me, suggestions from visitors are valuable. So I started researching about what gluten-free and celiac mean.
And I found out that they are related.
According to Professor Peter Howdle, author of "Your Guide to Coeliac Disease (The Royal Society of Medicine)", gluten is
"the protein in the wheat seed which provides amino acids for the growing plant, or for a human being when used as food. It provides much of the texture of flour when cooked."
So, gluten free food refer to food that do not contain wheat protein.
Prof Howdle is Head of General Surgery, Medicine and Anaesthesia Unit and Consultant Gastroenterologist at St James's University Hospital in the UK. He is also a media consultant for coeliac disease and an advisor to the medical board of Coeliac UK.
He wrote that celiacs suffer from coeliac disease which is a medical condition caused by gluten in the diet. The symptoms can be quite serious. Celiacs cannot eat gluten because it can make them very sick.
Celiac disease is a permanent condition and can only be treated with a gluten free diet. From what I read, coeliac disease is not easy to diagnose and the symptoms can be misread as mere digestive complaints like heartburn, bloatedness, acid reflux and more.
Professor Howdle also mentioned that some people are not celiac but could be gluten intolerant. Symptoms are not as serious as celiac disease but health seems to improve when they switched to a gluten free diet.
Your Guide to Coeliac Disease (The Royal Society of Medicine) contains a wealth of information about coeliac disease, especially its manifestation and treatment in the UK. Although it provides guidelines and tips for a gluten-free diet, it lacks gluten-free recipes.
The more I read about the symptoms and the encounters of celiacs, the more I feel for them. Seriously, it is not easy to avoid gluten. It seems to be everywhere and there is a dire of gluten free recipes.
During my research, I also came across a sort of celebrity in the gluten-free world. Her name is Shauna James Ahern and she is the author of Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back...And How You Can Too.
When Shauna found out she has coeliac disease, she went gluten-free and started a blog to share her stories, photos of her food and recipes. Her book is a candid look at her gluten-free life. It included her life story, gluten-free recipes and tips about living gluten-free. It was a wonderful read even for people who do not have coeliac disease
For fun, I tried for a couple of days to avoid gluten in my diet and it was near impossible. I can see how important gluten free recipes are to celiacs and people who are gluten-intolerant.
Thus, I am quite happy to discover that the rice congee recipes I posted can be considered celiac recipes (or coeliac recipes) except if soy sauce has been listed as an ingredient. I just found out myself that soy sauce contain gluten. However, that is easily resolved by substituting with salt or using a gluten free soy sauce like Tamari Soy Sauce, Wheat Free and Organic.
Some of my other soup recipes are also gluten free recipes. I'll start to add the recipe links on this page. It may take a while as there are a lot of recipes and ingredient lists to look through.
Gluten free recipes
- Beef brisket soup
- Beef noodle soups
- Beef soup recipe with chinese herbs
- Beef soup recipe with beef shin
- Oxtail soup recipes
- Vegetable beef soup recipe
- Black chicken soup for dark hair
- Herbal black chicken soup
- Chicken corn soup recipe
- Chicken feet soup
- Chicken mushroom soup
- Chicken soup recipe with red dates and milk
- Chicken soup recipe with baby bok choy
- Chinese chicken soup with solomon's seal
- Ginger chicken soup
- Healthy chicken soup
- Beef porridge recipes
- Carrot porridge
- Chicken porridge
- Fish porridge
Substitute soy sauce (if it appears in the recipes) with salt or get gluten-free soy sauce.
I'm new to the celiac diet, so if you discover errors here let me know immediately so that I can make corrections.
In the meantime, you might want to take a look at the soup recipe index yourselves and determine which are gluten free recipes, especially if you are familiar with the gluten free diet.
Thanks and happy souping!
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