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Health Begins in the Kitchen Blistered Padrón or Shishito Peppers


your guests beforehand. But hot or not, they are one of the most delicious appetizers you can whip up in less than fi ſt een minutes. Shishito peppers are the East Asian version of this pepper. Shishitos are a bit thin- ner than the padrón and less likely to be spicy.


INGREDIENTS:


½ pound padrón or shishito peppers


1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil


Finishing salt to taste 2 teaspoons nutritional yeast, or to taste


DIRECTIONS


SONOMA COUNTY, CA. ~ Padrón peppers, or Pimien- tons de Padrón, are small green Spanish peppers from Galicia. Because you never know how


hot the pepper is going to be, they have been called “Span- ish roulette.” Besides being a great appetizer, they become a very exciting one so warn


Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Wash and dry the peppers. Place them in a bowl and drizzle with oil. Toss them until they are well coated. Spread


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the peppers out on a cookie sheet or shal- low roasting pan. Roast until the peppers blister, about 8 to 10 minutes. Watch them carefully. Remove from the oven and sprinkle the peppers with fi nishing salt and nutritional yeast. Serve immediately.


Nutrition:


Per serving: 33 calories, 2 g total fat, 0 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 1 g protein, 2 g carbohydrates, and 2 g dietary fi ber.


Recipe by Dr. Joanne Mumola Williams creator of www.Foods-


ForLongLife.com and author of Health Begins in the Kitchen.


Weird Facts & Trivia - 6


Brazil is the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world. The Portuguese fi rst settled in the northeastern part of the country and by the time the slave trade ended in 1853 more than 3.5 million African slaves had been sent there and they had a major


infl uence on the develop- ment of Brazilian cuisine.


Around 10,000 B.C. man


fi rst started eating a crude form of fl at bread—a baked combination of fl our and


water. Ancient Egyptians are usually credited with invent- ing the oven and discovering yeast leavening. About 3,000 B.C. they started fermenting fl our and water mixtures by using wild, air-borne yeast. Eventually they added sugar, salt and fl avorings such as poppy and sesame seeds.


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