Black Bean Cakes Recipe

1 1/4 cup cooked black beans
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro, or parsley
2 tbsp korean chili-garlic paste, or plain tomato - paste
1 egg
2 tbsp skim milk, or 1% milk
salt and pepper, to taste
1/4 cup bread crumbs
2 tbsp olive oil

Thoroughly mix all ingredients except bread crumbs and olive oil. Add
bread crumbs to mixture and form into 4 patties.

Gently slide patties into an oiled, hot saut? pan. Saut? until brown and
crisp on both sides.

Exchanges: All dinner menus this week have about 550 calories total and
include:

2-3 Starch servings 1-3 Meat or Meat Substitute servings 1-3 Vegetable
servings 1 Fruit serving 1-2 Fat servings

Total Fat -- 20g Total Carbohydrate -- 45g Protein -- 33g

Some menus have 1 Skim Milk serving instead of 1 Meat, 1 Starch, or 1 Fruit
serving.

Recipe for Friday, 5/1/98

Notes: This week we are featuring complete dinner menus and accompanying
recipes from the cookbook Magic Menus for People with Diabetes, a
calorie-controlled collection of the "best of" the award-winning Month of
Meals series of menu planners.

You can order a copy of this and many other cookbooks from our online
bookstore or call 1-800-ADA-ORDER (1-800-232-6733).

Dinner: 2 Black Bean Cakes with 1/2 cup Cilantro Salsa and 2 Tbsp low-fat
sour cream 1/2 cup frozen yogurt

Copyright ? 1998 American Diabetes Association

MC formatted using MC Buster 2.0f & SNT on 5/6/98


Notes: 2 servings/Serving size: 2 cakes





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Contributor: http://www.diabetes.org/recipes

Preparation Time: 0:00

Serves: 2

Is this Black Bean Cakes Recipe Suitable for Diabetics?

This Black Bean Cakes recipe is one of our collection of diabetic Cake recipes. Because we know nothing about your precise medical conditions and the advice your doctor has provided, we really cannot say for certain that this Black Bean Cakes recipe is safe for you. Even taking that into consideration, because somebody labelled it as `diabetic` it should indicate that it, at the very least, meets the minimum consideration for the label `diabetic`, being low in fat and carbs and as a result should be better for your health than a typical non-diabetic recipe. Nevertheless, this Black Bean Cakes recipe should only be used In the event that you understand your own condition and are happy that the nutritional contents are OK for you.

This Black Bean Cakes Recipe is one from the diabetic Cake recipes collection. Please understand, it would be completely inconceivable for us to prepare every single one of the diabetic Cake recipes to certify that all the recipes are completely acceptable for diabetics. We have in excess of two thousand unique recipes in the collection, and to validate every one of them at 7 recipes per week would take more than six years. It would be wise to read the recipe content with care to verify that they agree with the dietary guidelines your medical advisors have given you. In the event that you feel that this Black Bean Cakes recipe is not safe for sufferers of diabetes, let us know and we will change or remove the offending recipe from the diabetes friendly recipe collection.