Cilantro Salsa Recipe

2 tomatoes, diced
1 small cucumber, peeled and chopped
1 small red onion, diced
1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro leaves
1 tsp grated lime peel
1 small green pepper, diced
1 dash hot sauce, up to 2
salt and pepper, to taste

Blend all ingredients to desired chunkiness and chill overnight.

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: 4 servings/Serving size: 1/2 cup





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

Preparation Time: 0:00

Serves: 4

Is this Cilantro Salsa Recipe Suitable for Diabetics?

This Cilantro Salsa recipe comes from our category covering diabetic Salad recipes. As we know nothing about your exact health issues & the advice your doctors have provided, we are unable to say with certainty that this Cilantro Salsa recipe is appropriate for you. Still, because somebody marked it as `diabetic` it should suggest that it, at the very least, covers the minimum consideration for the tag `diabetic`, being low in carbs & fat, and should be more healthy than the non-diabetic equivalent. Nevertheless, this Cilantro Salsa recipe should only be used if you understand your own condition and are happy that the recipe ingredients are safe for you.

This Cilantro Salsa Recipe is part of our diabetic Salad recipes collection. It is impossible for us to hand check every single one of the diabetic Salad recipes to verify that they are 100% OK for diabetes sufferers. There are over 2000 individual recipes in the collection, & to validate them all even at a rate of 7 recipes per week would occupy us for nearly 290 weeks. It would be wise to read the recipe ingredients with due care to verify that all of them are compliant with the dietary advice your medical advisors have given you. If you feel that this Cilantro Salsa recipe is incorrect, please contact us and we will modify or remove the problem recipe from the collection.

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