The Web's Best Recipes to Boost Your Immunity and Your Glow

Now is a good time to be doing everything you can to support your immune system. First and foremost, a strong immunity will help protect your health. As a bonus, it’s good for your skin.

Getting good sleep, eating well, reducing stress, exercising (even if you can’t get outdoors) are all integral to a strong immunity. But because we’re all home with time on our hands, and we’re obsessed with what to cook, we’re going to focus on food. 

We scoured the internet to find simple, healthy recipes to help keep you busy and healthy. Here’s the best of what we found. Enjoy!

Former restaurant owner, caterer, chef, and 2018 Saveur Blog Awards Finalist Sylvia Fountaine serves up a list of 25 vibrantly colorful, immune-boosting recipes on her addictive blog Feasting At Home. She incorporates foods rich in antioxidants, vitamin C, zinc, and probiotic foods in creative offerings that include Beet Poke and Curtido, a Salvadorian slaw fermented with jalapenos that we can’t wait to try.

Bon Appetit’s most popular healthy recipes of 2019 is a compendium of classics with a twist. With everything from a pared-down French-ish Onion Soup to Zucchini-Lentil Fritters with Lemony Yogurt Sauce, the recipes evoke comfort food favorites with a healthier bent. Check out the Roasted Salmon with Citrus Salsa Verde.

Looking for something that feels like a Friday night splurge without the guilt? Try these crazy amazing, satisfyingly cheesy Chipotle Chicken Sweet Potato Skins from blogger Tieghan Gerard, the creator behind the award-winning blog Half-Baked Harvest. Sweet potatoes are loaded with magnesium, which stimulates the body to produce hyaluronic acid, plus they provide a variety of other nutritional heroes like potassium, fiber, vitamin B6, vitamin A, and vitamin C to help keep your body and skin healthy.

While we advise against juicing because of the high sugar, low fiber content, we heartily recommend this super simple, super nutritious Banana Walnut Smoothie from Giada de Laurentis. This tasty blend of banana, coconut water, almond milk, walnuts, and dates gives you a powerful dose of minerals, healthy fats, protein, vitamins, and antioxidants. Excellent for a quick breakfast or snack.  

For those of you who like a bit of a challenge, this list of 45 Quick and Easy Immune-Boosting Recipes from the Australian food magazine, Delicious, will inspire you. Whether you cook these recipes or just look at the pictures, you’ll feel better for it. The Vermouth Mussels with Olives and Nettle Butter are a portrait of delicious vitality.

Of course, our list of immune-boosting recipes wouldn’t be complete without our own Beet Hummus, which takes advantage of the high concentration of antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, vitamin, and mineral content in beets. Or our Turmeric Tonic, a powerhouse of the anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory bioactivity to keep you glowing inside and out.