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In this blog, we want to offer you a creative way to “spice up” your gut-friendly recipe toolkit! This is a smooth, tummy-friendly recipe that can be catered to your diet specifications. 

Let us at Crohn’s & Colitis Lifestyle share this Red Curry Butternut Squash Soup Recipe with you.

CCL Recipe Suggestion: Red Curry Butternut Squash Soup

What is Food Philosophy for Crohn’s & Colitis?

At CCL we created something called food philosophy. If you are unfamiliar with it, it’s a GAME CHANGER practice!

Food Philosophy:
To look at ANY plate of food and assess its risk to your personal needs.

In short, this technique helps you to assess each and every plate you have in front of you. You can look at risk factors and take proactive measures.

What truly matters is your Food Philosophy fits your unique needs to experience a healing response.

 

What is so great about the strategies we offer at CCL is that you should be able to properly digest and eat anything when your gut is healed. No restriction. So when your microbiome is in proper balance it can handle any food!

 

A Simple Example to Illustrate Food Philosophy

 

We would like to use a hypothetical example using this recipe to explain how important food philosophy is. 

 

Here is an example of people currently with active IBD: 

Let’s say that 50% of people with active IBD who try this recipe could do well with this recipe and 50% of them don’t. Of those who don’t have IBD 95% of them will probably do well on this recipe and 5% won’t. Keep in mind this would be for any given recipe, not just this one. 

 

This play on numbers (is just an example) teaches us that in order to have a healthy gut we need to build the ability to handle a variety of foods! 

 

So the question to ask yourself is: if you don’t tolerate a certain food as well, ask why? And how can I build my gut to avoid a negative reaction in the future? 

 

This is how so many of our clients have had success eating a wide variety after completing our program!

 

If you are new to CCL and want to find out more about food philosophy speak to one of our coaches on a free call here!

Red Curry Butternut Squash Soup

Today’s recipe is taken from the lovely Danielle Walker with her company ‘Against the grain’.

We loved the idea of this recipe and the fact that the ingredients are gut-friendly. Not to mention that the texture is appropriate for sensitive and healing tummies! So we decided to show this recipe as a great option for gut-friendly recipes, and added our two scents on it with additional gut tips!

Each person’s gut healing journey goes at different paces, so our recipe suggestions are just general ideas, but please cater them (the ingredients, how they are cooked, etc..) to your OWN gut and what your professional health care team or our awesome coaches recommend! 🙂

AUTHOR: Danielle Walker – AgainstAllGrain.com
SERVES: 6
CUISINE: Indian
CATEGORY: Soup

INGREDIENTS:

  • 1 tablespoon ghee or virgin coconut oil
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 yellow onion, diced
  • 1/2 teaspoon ginger, freshly grated
  • 1 stalk of lemongrass, cut into 3 parts, and bruised with the butt of a knife (chop finely)
  • 1 tablespoon Thai red curry paste (mild, non-spicy version or make from scratch by simply adding powered curry as your paste, add in a small teaspoon at first to test tolerance and your gut reaction, if sensitive then omit completely and make this a butternut squash soup only no curry)
  • 4 cups chicken or vegetable broth (can sub for bone broth if you tolerate that better)
  • 1 medium-sized butternut squash, peeled, seeded, and cut into 1″ cubes (about 4 cups)
  • 2 5.4-ounce cans of coconut cream
  • Juice and zest of 1 lime (omit completely if you have heartburn, GERD or upper GI sensitivity)
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon white pepper (omit if too strong for your tummy)
  • 1/3 cup cilantro, chopped, to garnish (we recommend chopping very finely if using as garnish or adding to the soup before blending so there are no fibrous pieces for the gut to digest)
  • 1/4 cup toasted pepitas or cashews, to garnish (We recommend NOT using these at all to ensure no gut sensitivity reaction)

*If you have any sensitivity or your gut cannot handle even well-cooked onions, garlic, or lime please remove them completely. There is still flavor without them so don’t worry if your gut cannot handle them right now!

If the curry is too strong for your GI tract currently you can bring the intensity down by adding water to the container of curry or additional coconut cream.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Stovetop Method:

  1. Heat the ghee in a large pot over medium heat. Add in the garlic and onion, and saute until soft and fragrant, about 3 minutes. Add in the ginger, curry paste, lemongrass, and stir to combine. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring often until the onion is soft. Add in the butternut squash and the broth, stirring to combine. Season with salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to a simmer. Cover and cook for 20 minutes, or until butternut squash is tender. Remove the lemongrass stalks.

  2. Pour the soup into a blender in batches and blend until smooth. Return the soup to the pot and whisk in the lime juice and coconut cream (reserving a few tablespoons to garnish). Season to taste with additional salt and pepper.

  3. Ladle the soup into bowls and garnish with remaining coconut cream, cilantro, and toasted pepitas.

Instant Pot Method:

  1. Heat the ghee in the Instant Pot on high sauté mode. Add in the garlic and onion, and saute until soft and fragrant, about 5 minutes. Add in the ginger, curry paste, lemongrass, butternut squash, and broth. Stir to combine and season with salt and pepper.

  2. Secure the lid and push the soup button. Set the timer for 5 minutes. Manually release the pressure and remove the lid. Remove the lemongrass stalks.

  3. Pour the soup into a blender in batches and blend until smooth. Return the soup to the pot and whisk in the lime juice and coconut cream (reserving a few tablespoons to garnish). Season to taste with additional salt and pepper.

  4. Ladle the soup into bowls and garnish with remaining coconut cream, cilantro, and toasted pepitas (remove pepitas if your GI tract is not optimal yet).

CCLifetyle Quick Tips

In this section, we provide you with simple takeaway tips and a quick reference guide from us so that you can implement this in your daily health regimen!

*A quick tip:

Pureed or strongly whipped butternut squash soups are a great food option for gut issues! Get some gut love from butternut squash! 🙂

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