Spanish Garbanzo Beans Recipe

1/2 cup chopped onions
1 medium green pepper, chopped
2 tbsp olive oil
8 oz tomato sauce
1 1/4 cup cooked garbanzo beans

Saut? onions and pepper in olive oil. Add tomato sauce. Cook over medium
heat for 5 minutes.

Add garbanzo beans. Cook over low heat for 15 minutes.

Exchanges: All lunch menus this week have about 450 calories total and
include:

2-3 Starch servings 1-2 Meat or Meat Substitute servings 0-2 Vegetable
servings 1 Fruit serving 1 Fat serving

Total Fat -- 15g Total Carbohydrate -- 50g Protein -- 22g

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

Recipe for Saturday, 3/7/98 This week we are featuring complete lunch 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).

Lunch: 1 cup Spanish Garbanzo Beans 1/2 cup sliced cucumbers in red wine
vinegar 1/2 cup grapes

Copyright ? 1998 American Diabetes Association

MC Fortmatted and MC Busted by Barb at PK <abprice@wf.net>

NOTES : 2 servings/Serving size: 1 cup

Posted to RecipeLu List by "abprice@wf.net" <abprice@wf.net> on Mar 13,
1998.





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Contributor: American Diabetes Association

Preparation Time: 0:20

Serves: 1

Is this Spanish Garbanzo Beans Recipe Suitable for Diabetics?

This Spanish Garbanzo Beans recipe is part of our category which lists diabetic Bean recipes. Because we know nothing about your unique diabetic issues & the advice your nutritionalist has offered you, we can`t say for certain that this Spanish Garbanzo Beans recipe is OK for you. Be that as it may, as the original author marked it as `diabetic` it should indicate that it, at the very least, matches the minimum consideration for the label `diabetic`, being low in carbs and fat, and consequently should be better for your health than a typical non-diabetic recipe. Nonetheless, this Spanish Garbanzo Beans recipe should only be used if you understand your own condition and are happy that the ingredients are appropriate for you.

This Spanish Garbanzo Beans Recipe is one from our diabetic Bean recipes section. It would be completely impractical for us to cook each of the diabetic Bean recipes to make certain that they are all completely adapted for people with diabetes. Our diabetic recipe site has in excess of two thousand diabetic recipes in the collection, and to cook each recipe at the rate of one every 24 hours would take almost 290 weeks. We strongly urge you to check the nutritional content with care to verify that all of them agree with the diabetes nutritional guidelines your doctors have given you. If you think that this Spanish Garbanzo Beans recipe is not appropriate for sufferers of diabetes, then please let us know & we will remove it from the diabetes friendly recipe collection.

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