Skin Food: 3 recipes for beautiful skin from within
Radiant skin without the hassle yes please! Grandmother's recipe is spread, spread, spread, but the more we move with the times, the more often we read that you are what you eat. And now let us give you a helping hand to turn back time... So bye bye wrinkles and deep lines. We stimulate our collagen production - in collaboration with Oslo Skin Lab - and as you know, we are fans. But besides that we have a bag of 'The Solution' (The Solution? Yes, just read here) in our daily coffee, there are many tasty other options. This not only improves your inner self, but also your face. And dear people, that's what we all want, right? If you are not yet a member, with the code: BartsBoekje you will receive a 60% discount on the 1e packaging of the non-binding membership. You can cancel at any time, but you don't want that, believe us.
Here are three recipes that you can easily combine with a sachet of The Solution, so that you too will look good again.
Ingredients for about 6 people
250g dried chickpeas (the small dried ones are best, but if you want one quick fix then take canned peas)
5 g baking soda each time
2 garlic cloves, crushed
275g tahini
juice of 1 large or 2 small lemons
1 teaspoon salt
1 beet (you can buy pre-cooked beets or raw ones, but you will have to cook or peel them beforehand)
Extra: Parsley for garnish and a spoonful of paprika powder
Also needed: 1 food processor
Soak the chickpeas at least overnight in plenty of water with baking soda dissolved in it. Drain the peas and put them in a pan of clean water with another teaspoon of baking soda. Make sure the chickpeas are covered by about 2 fingers' width. Bring to the boil, reduce heat, cover the pan and let it cook for about half an hour. Stir and taste, because some peas are larger than others and therefore need to cook longer. They are good when they fall apart and shed their skin. Tip: keep a cup of cooking liquid aside.
Place the chickpeas in the food processor and let them cool. Add tahini, garlic, a pinch of salt and lemon juice and let it run for at least 10 minutes. Now add some of the cooking liquid to thin the hummus. Season with salt and perhaps some extra lemon juice. You can top it off with some chopped parsley as a garnish and a dash of paprika powder to finish it off.
Funky purple touch: To make a different "funky" variant, you can add beets at the end. This way you immediately have two variants. Beets also contain vitamin A, which promotes health skin improves.
For a quick lunch, you can spread this beet hummus on a Santa Maria wrap. Add some vegetables, raw vegetables and chicken fillet and off you go!
Ingredients for approx. 750 ml
Juice of 1 lemon
1 (green) apple
2 stalks celery sticks
50 g baby spinach or frozen spinach to keep the shake nice and cold
1 / 2 cucumber
1 banana
100 g mango
300 ml water (or plant-based milk of your choice) if necessary. You can also replace it with fresh orange juice for variety
Extra: sachet of Oslo Skin Care 'The Solution'
Preparation
Squeeze the lemon. Cut the remaining vegetables (not the spinach) and fruit into pieces and put everything in the blender. Blend it into a creamy smoothie. Stir a bag of The Solution into the smoothie and you're done.
Extra: garnish the smoothie with chia, hemp or other seeds you have at home. You can also sprinkle coconut grater, fruit or muesli on it. This way you can make a smoothie bowl in no time.
Ingredients for approx. 4 people
4 yellow peppers
1 can of coconut milk
1 onion
1 half red pepper
1 garlic clove
1 can of crispy corn
1 stock cube
1 teaspoon of turmeric
1 teaspoon of coriander seeds
1 teaspoon of cumin seeds
1 tablespoon olive oil for frying
1 handful coriander
1 lime
Half a liter of boiled water
Salt and pepper to taste
1 sachet Oslo Skin Care 'The Solution'
1 hand blender
Coarsely chop the yellow pepper and remove the seeds. Cut the onion and garlic and half a red pepper. Fry all these ingredients in the olive oil together with the spices (cumin, turmeric, coriander seeds). Add the stock, water and coconut milk. Let simmer for 15 minutes and then add the crispy corn, let it simmer for a while and then blend the soup with a hand blender. Pour the soup into a bowl and serve with some coriander to taste (you can also replace this with parsley for all you coriander haters).
Skin benefit: In Asian countries, turmeric is used as a remedy for skin conditions. In laboratory tests, the curcumin in turmeric appears to work as an antioxidant. This means it slows down cell damage. So this soup in collaboration with a bag of 'The Solution', ensures radiant skin.
