Diabetic Dinner Recipes
Entrées are the centerpiece of your dinner, so it's important to have diabetic dinner recipes that are friendly to your diet and taste good too. American Diabetes Services, the leading provider for diabetic testing supplies, offers these easy diabetic recipes to help you with your dinner decision.
Black-Eyed Peas
Braised Veal Shanks
Grandmom's Chop Suey
Spicy Meatball Sandwiches
Entrée Recipe: Black-Eyed Peas
According to the Diabetes Food Pyramid, diabetics should have 3 to 5 servings of vegetables per day. Vegetables don't just have to be a side dish, this black-eyed peas recipe makes an excellent vegetarian entrée. In order to make this diabetic dinner, you'll need the following ingredients:
Ingredients:
- 1 cup dried black-eyed peas
- 2 tablespoons olive or canola oil
- 2 each large onions and carrots, coarsely chopped
- 4 stalks celery, coarsely chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 3 cups vegetable stock
- 8 ounces each potatoes and turnips, peeled and cubed
- 1/2 teaspoon each dried thyme and rosemary
- 1/8 teaspoon each salt and pepper
Introduction:
Cooking technique: There are two ways to prepare black-eyed peas. You can slow
cook them with vegetables or you can boil the peas until tender and add to pasta
or rice dishes.
Per serving
Calories 340, Saturated Fat 1g,
Total Fat 7g, Sodium 154mg,
Cholesterol 0mg, Protein 15g,
Carbohydrate 57g, Fiber 18g.
Step 1:
Soak peas overnight. Drain. In a Dutch oven, heat oil and sautÈ onions,
carrots, celery, and garlic for 5 to 8 minutes.
Step 2:
Add 1 quart water and the stock to the Dutch oven with the peas, potatoes,
turnips, and herbs. Bring the mixture to a boil and boil 10 minutes.
Step 3:
Partially cover casserole and simmer 45 minutes or until peas are tender.
Uncover, season with salt and pepper, and simmer about 10 minutes longer. Top
Braised Veal Shanks
Tender, succulent braised veal shanks that will make your mouth water. This diabetic dinner recipe is a must have for veal lovers. In order to make this diabetic dinner, you'll need the following ingredients:
- 4 pounds veal shank -- cut in equal pieces
- 1 pinch salt -- to taste
- 1 pinch black pepper -- to taste
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1 1/4 cups olive oil
- 1 pound onions -- diced
- 1 cup carrots -- diced
- 1 cup celery -- diced
- 3 sprigs rosemary -- 1-1/2" long
- 5 cloves garlic
- 1/2 ounce dried porcini mushrooms
- 1 cup warm water
- 1 1/4 cups white wine
- 2 quarts veal stock
STEP ONE: Prepare Porcini Mushrooms--
Reconstitute porcini mushrooms in 1 cup warm water, then drain--reserving
liquid--and dice fine.
STEP TWO:
Season veal shank with salt and pepper. Dust with flour. In an ovenproof pan,
brown veal in hot olive oil until golden. Remove veal from pan. Add next 5
ingredients to pan, saute until browned. Add reserved mushroom liquid and wine
to vegetables and reduce liquid by one-half. Add mushrooms and veal stock. Bring
to a boil. Cover with foil and bake in a preheated 375-degree F oven
approximately 2 hours. Remove meat from juice. Keep warm. Reduce juice by
one-half and pour over veal. Serve with risotto on the side. Top
Grandmom's Chop Suey
Grandmom's Chop Suey is an easy diabetic recipe to prepare and gives your dinner an Oriental flair. So throw some meat, vegetables and spaghetti together and go chop suey. In order to make this diabetic dinner, you'll need the following ingredients:
-
1 - 3 lb. ground beef
- 1 pkg. frozen chopped onions
-
1 pkg. frozen chopped peppers
-
1 - 3 lb. spaghetti
-
1 - 3 cans whole tomatoes
-
1 - 3 cans tomato puree
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Salt, pepper, sage and poultry seasoning
-
Sugar to cut acid of tomatoes
- 1/4 lb. butter or margarine
Cut and fry meat. Add onions and celery. Add a little water and let simmer 1
hour with brown sugar and molasses. Add bean sprouts 1/2 hour before done. Add
thickening and let simmer 15 minutes. Serve over rice. Top
Spicy Meatball Sandwiches
Have a casual, Italian dinner with spicy meatball sandwiches. This easy diabetic recipe is simple to make and makes a great weekend dinner. In order to make this diabetic dinner recipe, you'll need the following ingredients:
Meatball Ingredients:
- 1 lb. ground beef
- 1 egg
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1/4 chopped onion
- 1/2 c. Italian bread crumbs
- 1/4 c. milk
- 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. pepper
Sauce Ingredients:
- 1 clove garlic, crushed
- 1 tbsp. butter
- 1/2 c. ketchup
- 1/3 c. chili sauce (Heinz, tomato
- based sauce)
- 2 tbsp. brown sugar
- 1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tbsp. prepared mustard
- 1 tsp. celery seed (optional)
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- Few drops hot pepper sauce
- 3 thin lemon slices
- About 20 (1") meatballs
- 6 hard rolls or French bread
Cooking Instructions: Meatballs- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine beef, egg, garlic, onion,
crumbs, milk, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper. Mix lightly and well. Shape
into about 20 meatballs. Place in a baking pan and bake 25 to 30 minutes.
Cooking Instructions: Sauce - In a medium saucepan, cook garlic in butter for 4 to 5 minutes. Stir in ketchup,
chili sauce, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, celery seed, salt,
pepper sauce and lemon slices. Bring to a boil. Add meatballs. Cover and cook
over medium heat for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally or until heated through.
Remove lemon slices. Yield: 6 sandwiches. Top
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