Stir-Fried Celery & Squids

4 Servings of Stir-Fried Celery&Squid

123 Kcal per serving

12 squids (350g)

2 Chinese celery (170g)

2 cloves garlic

1 red hot chili pepper

1 Tbsp cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil
½ tsp salt

With low glycemic load (GL=3, 100g), squids provide high proteins (100g, 16g proteins), and essential omega-3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA (100g, 500 mg EPA/DHA) that clinically proved to help reduce risk factors for heart disease, including lower down blood cholesterol and blood pressure.  Additionally, squids contain selenium, a mineral that is essential for selenoproteins such as glutathione peroxidase and thioredoxin reductase, both are powerful antioxidants our body need to fight against free radicals.  Chinese celery has high fibers content and extreme low calories (100g, 16 Kcal).  In this dish, celeries not only provide texture compliment to chewy squids, phytosterols in celeries actually inhibit cholesterol absorption.  Abundant vitamin K and potassium in celery make it a good choice to lower down blood pressure.  The sulfur-containing allicin in garlic has ability to inhibit cholesterol synthesis, and has anti-microbial activities.  Adding red chili peppers to this dish gave vitamins A, C, E, and capsaicin that can boost metabolism.  Extra virgin olive oil certainly can help absorption of vitamin A, E, K.  This is truly a delicious dish with a lot of health benefit.