Skin Food Soup Recipe

Whilst this is not a vegan soup, with a couple of trades on the ingredients it could easily become so.

INGREDIENTS:

! Large brown onion

Chopped Garlic ( two or three cloves)

400g Sweet Potatoes

300g Carrots

1 Yellow Courgette

1 Broccoli Stem

2tsp of Italian Herbs

2tsp of Chicken or Vegetable Bouillon paste or 2 cubes

300g Boiling Water

30g Chorizo

Salt & Pepper

METHOD:

Roughly chop the onion and fry until soft, add the peeled and chopped sweet potatoes and carrots, stir well and sauté for a couple of minutes. Chop both the courgette and the broccoli stem and add to the pan. Stir through. Add the Italian Herbs and stir thoroughly to disperse them well.

Meanwhile, boil the kettle and use 300g of the boiling water & Bouillon cube or paste to make your stock in a jug. Stir thoroughly until fully dissolved then add the stock to the pan of vegetables. This will likely not be enough water but do add more to cover the vegetables. Bring to the boil and then leave to simmer for 20 minutes or until all the vegetables are soft.

Remove the paper off the Chorizo and chop into tiny pieces. Add to the soup along with your seasoning. Give a good stir through and cook through for another 5 minutes. I personally don’t think the soup needs more than this amount of Chorizo as it is a strong flavour and we are looking for a ‘lift’ not a Chorizo soup, but by all means add to taste.

Using a hand/stick blender blitz to a smooth finish. At this point if the soup is too thick for your liking, do add more water. Return to the heat after blitzing to keep warm.

Grind a little Black Pepper over once served. Serve with crusty bread, chunks of Chorizo, Olives and slices of Cheese.

I am calling this Skin Food Soup as it is packed full of vegetables that are great food for the skin. Let’s face it they are great foods for the body and mind too. Modern diets that are full of fat, refined sugar and refined carbohydrates don’t supply the skin with the nutrients it needs and that can lead to poor skin tone, an unbalanced complexion and spots. It seems odd to me that we spend billions each year on an industry that feeds our skin from the outside but we often neglect feeding it from the inside. And it’s in cell development where our skin really starts. Give it a fighting chance with this yummy soups. There is nothing to lose.