Easy Summer Salad

This is one of my favourite meals, I love to eat this for lunch or dinner on a wonderful sunny summer day. It contains marinated chicken, avocado, mango and fresh veggies. What else do you want? ;-)

Ingredients
seasoned or marinated chicken breast
5 cherry tomatoes
2 table spoons corn
piece of cucumber
1/3 avocado
few pieces fresh mango
lettuce
walnut/hazelnut or olive oil
salt and pepper
squeeze of fresh lemon juice

Fried the chicken in the pan in some coconut oil until browned and done, let it cool down a bit while you cut your veggies. Grab a plate arrange all your ingredients on it and serve with a swirl of oil, squeeze of lemon and some salt and pepper on top. Easy does it! ;-)

ps. A great tip is to fried some extra chicken and store it in your fridge. It's perfect for making another salad or a for a throw in with a ready-to-go soup when you are in a hurry!

A hectic week as a model!

Heey Guys!

I'm incredibly sorry, I have been sooooo busy there was like zero time for blogging.. I went for a trip to Hamburg where I met my new agency MGM models check my Portfolio. And after my meetings I had a date with one of my friends, gorgeous sweetheart Sanny (Bartlema).

Me and Gorgeous Sanny

The first day in Hamburg I did some serious meal prepping at home (very important if your on the road all day long), I made a simply salad to go (quinoa, smoked chicken, cucumber, avocado and cherry tomato). Healthy, easy to eat on the road and very delicious. Because I had meetings all day I knew there wouldn't be time for a quiet sit-down lunch. And since I'm always hungry.. yep I NEED food prepping ;-) hahaha of course I also had some snacks in my bag as always: some fresh fruit, nuts and this time I also took the NAKED bar with me. It's all natural, has a great taste and it's easy to take with you wherever you go! So some tips you can maybe use when you are planning a trip anytime soon!

After all that was done me and Sanny went food shopping in rainy Germany, definitely time for some comfort food! We bought a bottle of Italian wine (Nero d'Avola, my favourite) and had tapas for dinner! We chose a variation of cheeses, spelt bread, salad, grilled eggplant, olives, corn salad, fresh grapes, fig jam and some nuts. And as a dessert we had my healthy home made brownies (recipe coming soon). Heaven on a little side table!

Fooooood and wine!

The next day we went on a very healthy detox after all the cheeses, nuts and wine and had a lot of fresh fruits and veggies. We went to the cinema, "the other woman" with Cameron Diaz and amazing model Kate Upton (still don't understand the hype about her, but yeah she is gorgeous). A really good woman movie, so I would say check it out!
After the cinema we went out for some shopping and bought some amazing sale items in town, scoreeee! After are big shopping succes we ended up having dinner in Dean & David, you may remember the name? I told you about them in one of my older posts Click! We had an amaaaaaaazing carrot, ginger and coconut soup. One of the best soups I ever had.. really.. we thought about it the entire evening haha and shard a huge chicken salad with coconut-satay dressing. Please if you are ever, ever, ever in Germany try out Dean & David.. the smoothies, juices, wraps, panini's, salads and soups.. it's ALL good! =)

The Carrot-Ginger-Coconut Soup

After the food we went home and rented some more movies, a very chilling movie day it was! The day after it was time to go home, I needed to continue healthy eating and work out.. seriously.. because I booked an amazing job.. The cover of Men's Health!!!

So excited to book the job, that would be on Tuesday. 2 days left, to be in my very best shape I needed some prepping. For me that means eating healthy 100% of the time: lots of fresh fruit, vegetables, chicken and fish. Not food that will blow you up, but things like beetroot, celery, ginger are very good. And also it's very important do drink a lot of water and green tea, to get rid of all toxics and it cleanses your body well.

The photoshoot was amazing, wonderful people, a great photographer, good looking male models ;-), amazing make up by such a sweet make up artist. Really the entire day was having such a good vibe!! And yes, we also had very nice food! We could choose our own salad or bread, of course all the models took salads since we weren't wearing that much clothes ;-) I chose a chicken salad with avocado, pine nuts and parmesan cheese. But most important, I had soooooo much fun! These are the kind of jobs that make me so happy and feel blessed I'm able to do this work for a living!

Backstage at Men's Health

Well so far the start of my week and I promise I will tell you all about the rest soon and upload some recipes!

xoxo

Asparagus Season!

I looooove asparagus! And so does my Mom, I remember when I was young my grandmother always took a lot of asparagus with her as a gift to my mother when she visited us. The white thick asparagus came from Germany, from the region where my dear grandmother lived. A region that was well known for this lovely vegetable. I wasn't a huge fan of asparagus, but I sure am now. I already whipped up an amazing pasta dish this week with the lovely vegetable, so good! I served gluten free corn pasta, a cream sauce that's actually not creamy and bad for your belly, smoked salmon, asparagus and spinach. And YES, I forgot to make a picture.. again. But it was sooooo damn tasty, so I promise to you all I will make it again soon and post the beautiful dish here on Hungry For Healthy Food.

Back to the asparagus, besides the fact it's damn tasty.. Did you by know that asparagus is full of health benefits of well? It's full of fiber, vitamins A, C, E, K, the complex B-group of vitamins and it's an herbaceous plant as well. A what? Next to avocado, kale and Brussel sprouts, they have a particularly rich source of glutathione - until now still not interesting right? But here it comes - this is a detoxifying compound that helps break down carcinogens and other harmful compounds like free radicals! That's why eating asparagus can actually help protect against and fight certain forms of cancer. Asparagus is also packed with antioxidants, ranking among the top fruits and vegetables for it's ability to neutralize cell-damaging free radicals. This may help slow down the aging process. Woooohoooooo Forever young! So it almost sounds like a superfood to me right? (And then I didn't even mention the fact it's a very low calorie vegetable (oops now I did), 100 gram of fresh spears provide just 20 calories.

Back to the recipe! A wonderful dish with on the bottom fresh lettuce and topped with steamed asparagus (so you won't loose all the vitamins), omega 3 packed salmon and more. So a dish that's rich in good fats, packed with protein and full of Vitamin A (good for your skin), B12, C and E! 

Ingredients

for the Salad

1 organic fresh egg
tablespoon of pine nuts
3 small radishes
some steamed asparagus (about 4)
100 g smoked salmon
Big handful of lettuce
2 small tomatoes

For the dressing
1/4 (60ml) cup fresh orange juice
1/3 (80 ml) cup olive oil
1/4 (60ml) cup white wine vinegar
1 tsp Dijon mustard
salt and pepper to taste

Boil or poach your egg the way you like, I love it when it's half way cooked and the egg yolk is running out of the egg and is drizzling over your salad. Stir fry the nuts in a dry pan until browned and fragrant. Then grab a plate and start off with a big handful of lettuce, top with radishes, asparagus, tomato, smoked salmon in pieces and serve with the egg on top, the pine nuts sprinkled all over and a big spoon of the lovely salad dressing.

Psst: you can store the remaining dressing in a jar in the fridge for a while.
Nutritional information: approx. 360 calories, 19.8 grams of fat, 29.7 grams of protein.

Bon appetit! 

My Dear Amsterdam

Haaay Guys!! 

This week I was back in lovely Amsterdam for 2 days. The very first day I had a gym date, I signed up for an insane workout with Model Workout! And we nailed it! After a million burps (okay Jeroen it were 45) and lots and lots of more excercies it was time to see one of my old friends again, Marianne. I know her since college time, when the economy wasn't that great, she made the choice to move to Amsterdam to find a job over there. And she did, she works as an attorney in a law firm. BUT I have never visited her place in Amsterdam! Shame on me, I know.. but it's just not in my system she lives over there hahhaa.

Me and the trainer of Model Workout!

We (me and Marianne) were both late and I was huuuungry so we decided it would be either dining out or dining in with a take away. And then Sla Amsterdam made the announcement on Facebook they would deliver to her region in Amsterdam as well.. YAY!! Easy peasy! I chose the amaranth chicken salad (my body was craving protein) and it was really delicious! Definitely one of my favourite places in Amsterdam to go to! My salad included rocket, amaranth, mushrooms, sweet potato, tomato, organic chicken and Parmesan cheese. A yummy combination including a very tasty dressing! First time I tried amaranth as well, I liked the taste of it. But I would still prefer quinoa though! ;-)

The next morning I had a casting, my first casting with my new book from Max Models. I signed up with them a bit over a month ago and am really happy with my new mother agent. A mother agent is the one that's taking care of your agenda, agency's abroad etc. The bookers are all really nice and doing a lot of effort, so hopefully I will work a lot with them!!

After my casting I went to Venkel, it's kind of a side kick of Sla. So I was eager to see if it would be just as good. And I have to say, I liked it, but Sla stays my favourite one. The portion was smaller, and I'm a big eater ;-) And the dressing was a bit sourly, I chose the "Lente kriebels" salad with chickpeas, peas, avocado, Parmesan, radish and I chose for a bit extra chicken (protein!) for my muscle recovery. I enjoyed it, I really did.. but too much of the sour dressing! ;-)

Almost Easter Time!

Hey there!

It's almost Easter, that mean's time for a wonderful food party ;-)

Hereby some tips for your morning Easter Brunch

Try out the gluten free crackers for a wonderful bite snack, the pear & pecan treat and Carrot Cake Oats as a sweet side (make a big tray of both so everyone can spoon in) have a lovely healthy side salad so you won't be over eating the "bad" stuff. And for Easter it means it has to have some chocolate, so why not the healthy bounty's as a wonderful dessert?

Serve with, tea, fresh juices and/or my homemade Chocolate smoothie in small glasses for everyone!

Have a lovely Easter

 xoxo

Sunny Spinach Side Salad

Gooodevening all!! 

Tonight I felt horrible, yup still sick. After being to the doctor now for the 4th time, they finally find out I have an inflammation.. Something wrong with my kidney so I am getting a full check on Wednesday and antibiotics for now. Yeah you hear that right, antibiotics.. something I reallllly hate to take. Well, I hate to take any kind of medications, even painkillers, but it also made me determined to start getting back on track. No more snacking and cheating, but eating healthy and only healthy until my body is back to normal. Yes I do eat healthy about 60% of the time, but the last few weeks I indulged way too much ;-) Anyway.. this evening I whipped up an amazing dinner, from all fresh ingredients I bought on the farmers market. I roasted a turkey thigh in the oven.. amaaaaazing! I'm so sorry my boyfriend butchered the turkey before I was able to make the picture hahha he loved it! With the turkey I served roasted sweet potato and this loaded superfood salad.

Ingredients

Spinach leaves (washed)

a box of cherry tomatoes

1/2 box of raspberries (fresh)

1 zucchini

old goat cheese (hard)

2 tbsp of pine nuts

half a red onion, chopped

some sun dried tomatoes

raspberry vinaigrette

hazelnut or walnut oil

Get a grill pan on high heat and sprinkle the zucchini with olive oil, salt, pepper and then grill until they have a beautiful brown stripe and are caramelised. Get a big bowl and start with shredding your spinach a bit, so the leaves are not huge. That doesn't eat very pleasant ;-) Now add the tomatoes, you can slice them up however you like. Roast the pine nuts in a dry pan and in the  meanwhile add all the other ingredients in the bowl. Finish with pine nuts and grated goat cheese and serve with the vinaigrette and oil. Amazingly delicious!! 

Just an ordinary day, including 2 recipes!

This week I visited my sister with her new little little baby and my adorable 2 year old niece. She is just toooo cute and my little nephew is definitely one of the prettiest baby boy's I've ever seen. We went to a little farm with a big playing field so we could cuddle some animals and play around while drinking organic juices in the sun. Not that bad right? 

My sister told me she finds it really hard to eat healthy walking around with a baby boy and a 2 year old girl that is demanding a lot of attention (and then I mean a loooooooot). So I'm trying to give her as much tips as possible to be and stay healthy. Thats why I'm going to make her "a week schedule in food" so she has some inspiration and something to hold on to. To show her how easy it can be I whipped up a delicious salad for the two of us and a wonderful treat for my niece. 

Ingredients

for 2 persons

4 hands of lettuce

1/2 avocado

chickpeas

almonds, roughly chopped

goat cheese, soft

cucumber

cherry tomatoes

cooked beetroot

dressing: olive oil, balsamic vinegar, honey, salt & pepper

Simply chop up all the ingredients, arrange on a plate and drizzle with the dressing. Yup that easy ;-) 

And than, my little niece was begging me to bake pancakes for her, so of course I couldn't resist (and pssst look at her cute knife ;-))

Now you are probably thinking, pancakes? That's not healthy! Well these are. 

Ingredients (prepare for the long list)

1 banana

cinnamon

1 egg

a swirl of milk of choice

Yup, that's it. Incredibly healthy, easy and damn delicious! Just mash 1 banana, add a teaspoon of cinnamon a swirl of milk and 1 egg. Mix it all up until you have a kind of batter and fried in a pan with a bit of olive oil. Serve like it is, with extra cinnamon, yogurt, jam or whatever you are craving! 

Oh and can you believe it? My niece was eating 1 of the 2 pancakes and wanted to eat our salad as well.. haha amazing right! Well she eats everything, this is a picture of her eating home made sushi the other day.. I mean.. home made sushi, for a 2 year old!!! (Not with raw fish for her though, not good for kids that young)

The Real Deal Burger with a wonderful side salad

Yup this baby is the real deal, but waaaaaaay healthier. I mean you can make it even more healthy using lean turkey mince or chicken mince or make a veggie patty. But if you want something that aaaactually tastes like a damn good burger without all the fat and calories, here you go ;-)
Mine is all made from scratch and I can't give you real nutritional information because it depends what kind of beef you use. And I grilled my burger so that will trim off a loooot of fat as well, no added oil, so less calories than the package will be. Of course you don't have to make your own burger buns, but damn these are tasty, healthy and you know exactly what's in there. But probably they sell something similar in your local organic shop as well so if your lazy, just buy one ;-)

Ingredients
For the bun (7 buns)
400g spelt flour
5g yeast
few drops stevia
2 tbsp olive oil
240ml warm water
big pinch of sea salt
sesame seeds for sprinkling on top

for the burger (2 servings)
300g lean organic minced beef
1 tbsp Worcester sauce
1 tsp pepper spicy powder
1 tsp palm sugar
1 tsp cayenne
1 tsp garlic powder
good pinch of sea salt

Mix all the dry ingredients for the buns and the wet ingredients in a different bowl and combine with a mixer or your hands until you have a firm dough. Cover the bowl with a kitchen towel and let it rest for at least 15 minutes. Now you can pre heat the oven on 180 degrees Celsius. Combine all the ingredients for the burgers and shape them until you have 2 patties (tip wet your hands a bit this makes it way easier to handle the meat). Form little balls of the dough and place them on a sheet of baking paper on the rack in the middle of the oven and sprinkle with the sesame seeds. Bake them for about 20 minutes until done and slightly browned. Grill your burger in your burger medium, rare or well done (I like it well done, it's better to digest when the beef is done all the way). Serve your burger on your bun with whatever you like. For my burger I used: Bun, organic ketchup, caramelised onions, burger, goat cheese crumbled on top, lettuce, cucumber tomato, alfalfa and the other half of the bun and served it with some greens and a wonderful celeriac salad from one of my favourite new cookbooks: Le Pain Quotidien.

Celeriac? You probably think now, yes this ugly looking vegetable you probably have seen in your local shop is actually really yummy and healthy.

EXTRA RECIPE: For the salad you simply mix 2 tbsp mayonnaise (I use a reduced fat one) with 2 tbsp of Greek 0% yogurt, salt, pepper, agave syrup and 1 tsp turmeric. Combine until you have a nice dressing and then it's time to add half of the celeriac, shredded. Add a big hand of goji berries or dried cranberries and mix until everything is well combined, let it sit for at least 15 minutes so the celeriac and berries will soke up the dressing.

Enjooooy!!!!

Dinner party

Salads, always great and look at this beauty!

My brother came for dinner this week, he lives in a student house with a very filthy kitchen. So that means he almost never cooks, eating take aways and pre packed food in the grocery stores is his way of life. I'm trying to let him make healthier options, but he is just not so much in to clean food as well I guess. Well he does love salads, so I made this big beauty for him. Filled up with protein from the smoked chicken, healthy fats of the avocado, of course lots of veggies for vitamins and some beans for extra carbs and protein.

Ingredients
serves 4

450 gram smoked chicken
2 courgettes
2 bell peppers
alfalfa
200g cherry tomato's
a few big hands fresh spinach
1 cucumber
one jar white beans or chickpeas
1,5 avocado
cottage cheese

for the dressing
pomegranate vinegar
olive oil
salt and pepper

Simple heat up a grill pan and cut your courgette and bell peppers roughly. Give them a swirl of olive oil, salt and pepper and grill until browned and done. In the meanwhile roughly chop up your spinach and divide in a huge bowl. Cut the cucumber in fours, just like the cherry tomatoes and divide over the spinach. Next up drain the beans, rinse with water and divide on top. Now it's time for your grilled veggies, chicken in stripes, avocado around for a great look and just some dots of cottage cheese here and there. A bit of alfalfa around and drizzle with the salad dressing. Ready in 20 minutes and tastes amazing.

Serving suggestion: I served the salad with some sliced of spelt bread, my home made spelt crackers and some light herbed cream cheese.

Nutritional information: with salad dressing included approx. 400 calories, 31 gram of protein, 25g of carbohydrates and 20g of fat.

Hot Goatcheese Salad

It's sunday.. That means time for a blog that's all about easy. Today a salad you can make in minutes, without making too much effort. You don't need to order, don't need a take away but just try this easy recipe!;)

"Error"

Ingredients

big handful of lettuce

half a cucumber in fours

1 large tomato, sliced

1 grilled bell pepper (pot)

a bit of red onion in half rings

seeds

goat cheese

good quality bread 

Olive oil, balsamic vinegar with salt and pepper for the dressing

Preheat an oven on 200 degrees Celsius. Than grab a plate and arrange the salad and vegetables on. Take a heat proof plate and pop the goat cheese in the oven until browned and a bit gooey. In the meanwhile make the dressing and roast the seeds in a pan on medium heat without any added oil, keep an eye on them because they can get a bit black when you don't;) combine everything and there you go, and easy delicious Sunday lunch or dinner.

Turkey Salad Love

The Turkey Salad (that isn't boring)

Okay, who ever says salads are boring are crazy. I mean, I often eat a salad for lunch or dinner and I'm never ever fed up with eating them! Plus there are so many different kind of salads that I really don't understand how anybody can find them boring. You just need to eat a good salad ;-)  So what about a turkey salad for your lunch or dinner?

Ingredients
rocket salad
1 turkey fillet
Moroccan chicken spices
pomegranate
1/4 cucumber in fours
half an avocado
4 cherry tomato's in halves
1 cooked beetroot cut in dices

raspberry vinegar and olive oil for the dressing

salt and pepper

Season the turkey and cut them in smaller pieces, fried them until browned. Grab a plate and fill it up with a big handful of rocket, next arrange all the vegetables on top and finish with the turkey and pomegranate. It's that easy, it's that delicious! 

Vegetarian Monday

For me it's really important to eat at least one day completely vegetarian, no meat, no fish. My boyfriend is not all to happy with that, but since I start making wonderful dinners and not mention in advance it's going to be vegetarian he is always happy with my created meals;) So this dish is perfect for those who want to eat vegetarian, without the feeling to miss out on meat.

Meat free Monday's Dinner

Ingredients
for the salad
a bag of lettuce
1 avocado
half a cucumber
2 Roma tomato's
goat cheese
seed mix (pine nuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds)
1 eggplant in slices
a hand of diced butternut

add: vegetarian burger, my favourite when I don't want to make my own: the Provencal carré. A mix of zucchini, eggplant, goat cheese and herbs.

for the dressing
Pomegranate or raspberry vinegar
good quality olive oil
salt & pepper


Preheat the grill or oven on 225 degrees. Arrange the butternut on a peace of baking paper, slice the eggplant in rounds and place next to the butternut on a baking sheet.  Sprinkle the vegetables with olive oil, salt and pepper and let the eggplants grill for 10 minutes, turn and let them grill for another 5. The butternut needs about 20 minutes. When you get the eggplant oat, replace the space for the burgers. They need about 8 minutes. Make sure to turn them as well. In the time your vegetables are roasting it's time to prepare the rest of the salad. Grab a big salad bowl and mix the vinegar, olive oil salt and pepper in it. On top you can add the lettuce, the avocado in pieces, the cucumber in fours, the tomato in slices and after the vegetables are browned and cooled down a bit you can add the butternut and eggplant as well to the bowl, now it's time to mix it all up. Making your salad this way prevents the salad to get soggy because it combines with the dressing just before serving. Finally, crumble the goat cheese on top, get a big amount on your plate and serve with the vegetarian burger.

Bon Appetit!

Salad on the go!

Yesterday I had a fun and lovely shoot in the Netherlands. We made a cool editorial with all black and white elements with golden jewelry.

I knew the team and wanted to make something delicious for on set, something healthy ;-) I love salads, a lot of people think it's boring but I really don't understand how a salad can be boring. You can add whatever you like and make a million versions! I chose to make a rocket salad with some healthy ingredients like sweet potato which are high in vitamin B6, vitamin C and D, contain iron (proper immune functioning and white blood cell production) and are a good source of magnesium, which is the relaxation and anti-stress mineral. Further you need the best grain in the world quinoa, some goat cheese (use a good quality of feta cheese if you don't like goats cheese) and some vegetables and nuts. Further it just needs a bit of time and love to make this healthy, delicious salad.

Salad on the Go!

Ingredients

Quinoa
goat cheese
1 big sweet potato
raisins
rocket
cherry tomato's
cucumber
handful of mixed nuts
drizzle of olive oil
salt & pepper
cinnamon
vegetable stock

Boil water in a kettle. Grab a handful of raisins and add them to a cup with some of the boiled water, let it soak up the water for about 5 minutes. In the meanwhile slice the sweet potato in cubes (just wash, leave the skin on it's full of vitamins!) and cook them about 8 minutes until soft. In the same time you can cook your quinoa with some vegetable stock and a pinch of cinnamon. Cook until fluffy and let it cool down. Grab your Tupperware and start layering up. First the rocket, than the cherry tomatoes (in fours), the cucumber (in fours) and the cooled down quinoa and sweet potato. Sprinkle the chopped nuts, raisins and olive oil on top and serve with a drizzle of olive oil, salt and pepper!

Some sneaky backstage unedited shots from the shoot

Skinny dinner

Today I will share another recipe that is inspired on my trip in Capetown last year. It's a very healthy vegetarian dinner (or lunch) because it contains healthy fats from the avocado and almonds (also full of protein and vitamin E, hello gorgeous skin and hair), complex carbs and protein from the worlds healthiest grain in the world: quinoa, and one of my favourite vegetables; eggplant. 

Ingredients:

1 eggplant

1 avocado

2 handfuls of almonds

rocket

fresh cilantro

fresh parsley

2 tablespoons of raisins soaked in hot water

Slice the eggplant in pieces and arrange them on a big plate with kitchen paper. Gently sprinkle some salt on them, put another kitchen paper on top and put something heavy on it. This way you will get some of the liquid out of the eggplant so by the time the eggplant will see the pan, it won't completely suck up all of the oil and becomes greasy! 

Next grab a coffee mug and fill with red quinoa (or any other kind) and place it in the pot with 2 cups of boiling water, a teaspoon of cinnamon and let it cook until done. When finished cooking gently mix it up with a fork so it becomes fluffy and give it some space to "unsteam". Heat a frying pan with a few table spoons of good olive oil, fry the eggplant until brown and caramelised and sprinkle with pepper (NO salt because you already did). 

Your dinner is almost ready now at this point! Grab a big plate and start with a big handful of rocket with a bit of the fresh herbs on it, combine the raisins with the quinoa and put as much as you like on the rocket. 

Next up the eggplant, almonds and avocado, sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste and dig in! 

My all-time favorite lunch dish

Today I will share one of my all-time favourite lunch recipes with you!

Last year I lived in Capetown, South Africa for quite some time. In this city the food culture is amazing, everything there is fresh and healthy. I didn't expect that to find in South Africa, at all.. but many city's can learn from them.
Over there I had my favourite lunch hot-spots, like Skinny Legs & all (www.skinnylegsandall.co.za) for breakfast and lunch, Hudsons (www.hudsons.co.za) for the best burgers in town, for breakfast you had to visit Knead (www.knead.co.za) and I can go on for ever and ever! This recipe is inspired on a dish they sold in a tiny little vegan take-away restaurant which I don't even know the name of.. shame on me!


Ingredients:
2 parsnips in pieces
A big chunk of diced butternut
1 cooked beetroot
4 spoons of corn
1 red onion, roughly chopped
mixed lettuce with rocket
hummus (preferably homemade)
pesto genovese (preferably homemade)
2 spoons of balsamic vinegar
salt and pepper to taste

To make this dish, preheat an oven on 225 degrees (Celsius). Prepare a baking dish with baking powder and arrange the veggies on it. sprinkle some olive oil, salt, pepper and the balsamic vinegar on top. Roast the vegetables in the oven until cooked and golden brown. Grab a bowl and fill it with a big handful of lettuce, arrange the vegetables on top and serve with a big spoon of hummus and a tablespoon of pesto on top.

Bon Appetit!

Tip: You can change the vegetables as you like, for example I also love to use sweet potato, red bell pepper and cooked green beans for this dish.