We have to confess something. We don’t have a recipe of a salad here. And as embarrassing as this might be for some people, it’s not the thing we want to confess. Can’t believe you fell for that.

We ate a piece of Salami Pizza Hut Saturday last week. Now that’s a confession worth confessing. And the other thing we have to confess: Yuck! That pizza was simply disgusting.

We mean the salami was stinking its way to the top like the sky is the limit.

We can’t believe we actually loved this pizza.

And by love we mean LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVEEEEEEEEE from the bottom of our heart and stomach!!!!!

The kind of love that makes you act stupid. The kind of love that makes you want more.

The kind of love that makes you check your messages every 5 seconds to see if the delivery guy is going to bring your sweetheart soon.

The kind of love that makes you think of your darling all the time. The kind of love that makes you go to the other end of the city to order a box of your love with a cheese crust and sliced into 4-8 pieces. Yes. It was that kind of love.

But we broke it off 2 months ago to eat more plants and vegetables. We don’t know, they’re just fresher, juicier and make us feel younger. And now us and pizza live by the rule – look but don’t touch. Of course every now and then we go back and we have some fun together – sue us, we're not a Saint.

But frankly – our experience last Saturday with the Salami Pizza Hut – was a definite turn off. It smelled and tasted worse than our socks (we assume that, we've never actually tasted our socks), if we were to wear them a whole year through without ever taking them off.

People who know us would say – “That’s not too dramatic, your feet smell like lilies and taste like strawberries. And you fart perfume – Lola by Marc Jacobs!”.

Well who am we to deny this everlasting truth. But bottom line: Salami Pizza – it’s over.

Now we want to introduce you to our new crush – it’s this beautiful skin spinach and roasted chickpea salad that is making us feel younger, fresher and smells and tastes like spring.

It’s a tasty, crunchy and light salad and it makes a great light lunch, which will make you feel like you want to make a fiesta and not a siesta. Which means – you will have more energy and won’t need to take a nap after lunch.

We ate this beautiful skin salad last week for a few days and tried out some variations.

Not because we're a cheater and can’t stick to one salad for the rest of our life week, but because we had some leftover lentil burgers and some roasted peppers and when the opportunity presented itself, we just tossed them into this beautifying queen salad.

HEALTH AND BEAUTY BENEFITS

This salad is a great treat for the skin, because it’s alkalizing, detoxifying and full of antioxidants, fiber and minerals.

It’ will boost your immune system and will make you feel alive with every fiber of your being.

This salad is rich in

wrinkle fighting vitamins C and E,
sun protective carotenoids,
anti-inflammatory Vitamin B6
antioxidant mineral selenium – important for skin elasticity

Besides it’s satisfying and done in less than 20 minutes. So just do it. Okay?

Yield: 2 servings
Prep: 10 minutes

Ingredients

For the salad

handful roasted chickpeas
1 cup spinach
1/2 cup chopped green cabbage
handful dill
handful arugula
1 carrot
1 green pepper
1/2 cucumber or 1 small cucumber

For the dressing:

1/2 cup sunflower seeds
juice of 1/2 lemon
pinch of salt
pinch of black pepper
1/3 cups water

Method

Chop all the vegetables for the salad and mix in a big bowl.
In a blender put all the ingredients for the dressing together and blend at high speed until very smooth.
Add up to 3 tbsp of the dressing to the salad, season with some salt if you need to and you're ready for an alkalizing lunch.

Notes

vegan

vegetarian

gluten-free

grain-free

nut-free

dairy-free

Alkalizing spinach and roasted chickpea salad