Gluten-Free Acquacotta (Tuscan Vegetable Soup with Egg)
Served over toasted gluten-free bread. Serves 4. Vegetarian friendly. Ready in 55 minutes. Check the labels on packaged ingredients.
Hearty gluten-free soups and stews — naturally thickened, deeply flavored.
Updated October 5, 2026. Fall soups stay gluten-free when the broth carton says so and the pot is thickened with cornstarch or a rice-flour roux instead of wheat flour. Seasoning packets, cream-of-mushroom cans, and wheat-brewed soy sauce are the usual surprises; gluten-free tamari is the swap when a bowl needs that savor. Thanksgiving sides that share those label rules are linked with the bowls below. Personal celiac decisions, including oats if a garnish uses them, belong with a clinician.
Updated 2026-10-05. These pots are the October set: squash, chili, chowder, and a turkey chili that can take leftover roast. Thanksgiving sides that use the same broth and thickener rules are in gluten-free salads and sides.
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Cornstarch or arrowroot stirred into a cold slurry, a scoop of mashed potato, or a puree of the beans already in the pot will thicken a stew without wheat flour. A rice-flour roux works when you want the same butter-and-flour step, using a labeled gluten-free blend.
Yes, if the flour is a labeled gluten-free blend and the pot was not used for a wheat roux the same day. Chowder potatoes also thicken the soup as they cook, so many pots need less flour than a wheat recipe calls for.
Give the gluten-free soup its own pot, spoon, and ladle, and keep wheat-flour gravy on another burner. A shared whisk moves flour dust into an otherwise careful bowl. Broth, seasoning packets, and any canned soup in the recipe still need a gluten-free label that day.
Chicken broth is gluten-free only when that carton says so. Yeast extract and natural flavors are the usual surprise, so a fall stew still starts with a labeled carton. Thicken with cornstarch or a rice-flour roux, and use gluten-free tamari where a recipe would have used wheat-brewed soy sauce.