Sliced Beet Salad Recipe

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Sliced Beet Salad Recipe from the diabetic recipe collection at InformationAboutDiabetes.com

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cup Sliced canned / cooked beets
1 Bay leaf
4 Whole cloves
4 Whole allspice
1 small Grapefruit
1 package Equal sweetener (2 tsp)

Preparation:

Drain the liquid from the canned beets, reserving 1/2 cup. (Use
water with fresh beets.) Combine the 1/2 cup beet liquid, bay leaf,
cloves and allspice in a small saucepan. Heat to boiling. Lower the
heat and simmer for 5 minutes.

Section the grapefruit. Remove the spices from the liquid and pour
over the beet slices and grapefruit sections. Add the sweetener.
Marinate for at least 1 hour before serving. Drain off the liquid
before serving.

1/2 recipe - 86 calories, 1/2 fruit exchange, 2 vegetable exchanges 21
grams carbohydrate, 2 grams protein, 0 fat 302 mg sodium, 380 mg
potassium, 0 cholesterol

Source: Am. Diabetes Assoc. Holiday Cookbook by Betty Wedman, 1986
Shared but not tested by Elizabeth Rodier, Nov 93

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Preparation Time: 0:00

Serves: 2

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Is this Sliced Beet Salad Recipe Suitable for Diabetics?

This Sliced Beet Salad recipe is one of our collection of healthy diabetic Salad recipes. Because we know nothing about your precise medical concerns & the advice your doctor has provided, we really can`t say with certainty that this Sliced Beet Salad recipe is safe for you. However, because the recipe author labelled it as `diabetic` it hopefully suggests that it, at the very least, meets the basic consideration for the label `diabetic`, being low in carbohydrates and fat, and consequently should be more healthy than the non-diabetic equivalent. Nevertheless, this Sliced Beet Salad recipe must only be used In the event that you understand your own condition and are happy that the nutritional contents are appropriate for you.

Sliced Beet Salad Recipe - Important Disclaimer

This Sliced Beet Salad Recipe is one from the diabetic Salad recipes section. Please understand, it would be completely unfeasible for us to validate every one of the diabetic Salad recipes to ensure that they are all completely modified for diabetics. Our diabetic recipe collection has many thousands of recipes listed, and to prepare each of them even at a speed of 4 or 5 a weeek would take a lifetime. Our advice is to read the nutritional content carefully to confirm that they are compatible with the nutritional advice your doctors have offered you. If you feel that this Sliced Beet Salad recipe is unsuitable, then please send us an e-mail & we will modify or remove the recipe concerned from the diabetes friendly recipe collection.

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