Spicy St. Patrick’s Feast

Fed up with flavorless green vegetables for St. Patrick’s dinner table decoration? In this upcoming St. Patrick’s Day, add up your traditional feast with green chilies as an impressive green decorator then, refill good nutrition to your health in this new season. You can surely spice up your feast with green chilies; the menu would be traditionally green and added with a bit more beneficial nutrition.
Chilies would give spiciness to your dishes and can make you more cheery. Green chilies can add a bit more benefits to your feast as well. Green chilies are mostly more fresh than the red ones which are mostly dried because chilies begin with being green first and then they turn red or yellow. In them, there are plenty of antioxidants which increase your metabolism. The chilies also provide lower cholesterol and help the digesting system as well. So the big feast on the celebrating will not make you too full and feel heavy.

Importantly, green chilies contain high flavonoid which is associated in reducing the risk of human common cancer like breast cancer, lung or colon cancer. This flavonoid can be found high in only the green chilies, not the red ones, and also found high in onion leaves and black tea. Apart from the decrease of the cancer risky, flavonoid is found that it has anti germ qualification, capability of lowering risk of heart disease, and preventive attributes to circulatory disorders such as coronary artery disease.

Green chilies are also high in vitamin A and C and have more Vitamin C per gram than many oranges. So in the feast day, you may avoid the orange color and replace with the green ones without lacking of any vitamin C. Apart from that, green chilies can help you get a good sleep. A study of the University of Tasmania shows that taking 15 grams of chilies daily can improve your sleep and sleep influences cardiovascular health. So you will have less risk on heart disease after eating them.

You can found green chilies are available fresh or dried or in powdered, flaked, in oil, in sauce bottled and pickled. For the fresh ones, you can select the crisp unwrinkled, bright ones. To decrease the pungency of the seeds, discard the seeds and soak them in salted cold water. Chilies contain volatile oil which can irritate your skin and cause eyes burn. So always wash your hands immediately after you touch them.

For the upcoming celebration, green chilies can be used in almost any meal imaginable like salads, sauce, stew, casseroles, veggies, Pizza, Quiche, salsa, stew, dressings and even the desserts. You may put some green chilies in an Irish stew or put some on the face of corned beef dinner. Apart from adding some green, green chilies will balance your digesting system and maintain your good health even after big heavy feast.
Last Updated ( Thursday, 05 June 2008 15:42 )