Five-Color Mixed Bean and Lean Pork Soup

Why people make this soup

Nourilo picked up a couple of bags of five-color kidney beans at a farmers’ fair and threw in a few more beans of different colors to make a hearty pot of soup with lean pork. In Chinese food-therapy thinking, a bowl built from many colors of beans is a simple way to give the whole body a little support — it is filling, nourishing, and the kind of thing a family can drink any day.