Diabetic Food Recipes for Dessert

20. March 2012 · Comments Off · Categories: Cupcakes and Food · Tags: , , ,

Diabetic Food Recipes for Dessert

When diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, patients are required to follow a strict diet to control their blood sugar levels and would need to learn diabetic food recipes. They are not necessarily required to eliminate sugar from their diet, but they do have to moderate their intake.

In this article, I will share with you three diabetic food recipes for dessert that will surely brighten up your days and your meal hour especially when you have loved dessert ever since you were a kid.

1. Fresh Peach Brulee

This recipe is filled with vitamins and nutrients that you need for diet. You will need two large and fresh peaches, two tablespoons fresh lemon juice, cooking spray, and 2 teaspoons light brown sugar. What you need to do after lining a small baking pan with aluminum foil is to peel and halve the peaches. Then coat all sides of the peaches with cooking spray before sprinkling some lemon juice.

Place these on the baking pan, with the cavity side up, then sprinkle with 1 teaspoon brown sugar around every peach’s top. Broil for about two minutes until sugar caramelizes and begins to glaze the peach.

This non-fat and cholesterol-free recipe yields 47 calories, 1 g protein, 12g carbohydrates, 1 g dietary fiber, and only 2mg sodium.

2. Banana Chocolate Parfaits

Using only low-fat yogurt, low fat frozen dairy whipped topping, sugar-free chocolate pudding mix, unsweetened cocoa powder, bananas, fresh lemon juice, and chopped walnuts. You would have to use a blender to combine the yogurt with the pudding mix until the mixture is smooth.

You should then cut each banana into diagonal pieces and sprinkle lemon juice on the pieces.

Place some of these on dessert parfait glasses and then pour the pudding mix on top. You will hen have to add 1 tablespoon whipped topping. Top this off with some cocoa powder, walnuts, and even cherries if you like.

3. Caffe Affogato

Lastly, you can try the Caffe Affogato, which is simply fat-free frozen vanilla ice cream topped with 2 tablespoons of hot espresso. This is non-fat and contains, 73 calories, 16 g carbohydrates, 37 mg sodium and 2 g protein.

So who said you could not have sweet and appetizing diabetic food recipes?

 

 

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Berry Recipes – The Perfect Breakfast, Snack Or Dessert Recipes

25. January 2012 · Comments Off · Categories: Cupcakes and Food · Tags: , , , , ,

Berry Recipes – The Perfect Breakfast, Snack Or Dessert Recipes

These simple and fresh berry recipes are perfect for a light and easy breakfast meal, quick snack, or a flavorful dessert to finish off a meal any time. Made with just a few simple ingredients, these healthy fruit recipes can be assembled in minutes and can be used whenever you want something quick, fresh and healthy to make with delicious seasonal produce.

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Strawberries and Bananas with Cinnamon Yogurt
Serves 1

1 cup strawberries – cut into chunks
1/2 banana – cut into small chunks
1 cup low-fat plain Greek-style yogurt
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tbsp chopped pecans

- In a bowl, stir the yogurt and cinnamon together. Add the fruit and nuts and combine well.

To Serve: Serve in prepared puff pastry shells and drizzle with a little warm chocolate sauce for a quick and easy dessert.

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Blueberries with Creamy Goat Cheese
Serves 2

2 cups blueberries
1 cup cantaloupe – cut into cubes
1/2 cup chayote squash – diced
1/4 cup crumbled goat cheese
1 tsp lemon zest
Mixed salad greens

- In a bowl, combine the fruit, squash, cheese, and lemon zest.

Toss well.

To Serve: Serve fruit recipe over mixed salad greens along with warm bread sticks or whole-grain rolls.

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Creamy Berry Dessert
Serves 2

1 cup blackberries
1 cup raspberries
1 cup vanilla yogurt
1 tbsp fresh mint – minced
2 peaches – pit removed and cut in half
honey – as desired

- Place the berries in a bowl and drizzle with some honey and toss gently to combine.

- In a smaller bowl combine the yogurt and the fresh mint and mix well.

To Serve: Place the peach halves on serving plates. Then scoop the berries over the peach halves, reserving a few for garnish. Then top the berries with the yogurt mixture, garnish each serving with the reserved berries and drizzle a little honey over the top.

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Raspberry Pear Parfait
Serves 2

1 cup raspberries
1 cup pears – cut into chunks
3/4 cup – ricotta cheese
1/2 tsp – vanilla extract
1/4 tsp – ground cinnamon
1/2 cup cinnamon graham crackers – broken
1 tbsp – sliced almonds

- In a small bowl, stir the ricotta, vanilla extract, and cinnamon until well combined.

To Serve: Take 2 tall glasses (parfait, wine or whatever you may have) and layer ingredients. Place some raspberries and pear chunks in the bottom of the glasses, then some ricotta mixture then some of the broken graham crackers. Keep layering in this manner until ingredients are all used. Top each parfait with the sliced almonds and enjoy.

Ingredient Exchange: Instead of vanilla extract, try lemon extract or almond extract.

Laura Cockerell is a food and health enthusiast who has enjoyed cooking from an early age. Her website at http://www.quick-salad-recipes.com, which includes more berry recipes, offers easy solutions to healthy meal preparation by providing a large selection of simple, quick, and budget friendly recipes that include delicious salads along with a wide variety of healthy and flavorful meal recipes that require a minimum of ingredients, time, effort, and clean-up for the time-pressed world we live in.