Healthy Diabetes Recipes

Posted May 25th, 2007 by
Categories: Diabetes Care

Nuts and pears cake

Many people suffer from diabetes, a severe disease, which attacks slowly and needs a very strict alimentation, without many sweets, fats or fizzy drinks. Therefore, we offer you a recipe based on sweetener and other healthy ingredients.

Ingredients:

- 400 g flour, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, 30 g yeast, 90 g dietetic juice, 300 ml de light milk, 25 g dietetic bitter chocolate, 200 g nut kernel, 300 g semolina, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 20 g butter, 180 g pears, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, 100 g dry fruit, 1/4 teaspoon liquid sweetener, special for people suffering from diabetes.

How to prepare it? Mix the flour with the salt. Put the yeast in a bowl, with 50 g syrup, 4 spoons of warm milk, a little salt and mix, then add them to the flour. Let them 15 minutes to grow, mix them, and let the mixture grow for other 30 minutes.
Meanwhile heat the rest of the milk, 40 g syrup, semolina, cinnamon, chocolate and grounded nut. After it cools, add the butter.
Peel the pears, cut them in little cubes and sprinkle them with lemon juice. Add them to the nut, together with the sweetener and the dry fruit, cut in small pieces.
Spread the dough and add the stuff, then roll it over, and put it in a tray. Let it grow for 20 minutes, and then put it in the oven for about 1 hour.

Strawberry jam

Cooking time:
35 min (reduced complexity)

Ingredients
4 kg strawberries, 800g fructose, 3 packets of gelatin 3:1, juice from two lemons

How to prepare it

Wash the strawberries under water jet, let them drain, pick their short tails and weigh them. A quarter from the fruit amount is beaten with the whisk, and it is put in a big stainless steel sauce pan. The fructose and the gelatin are mixed with the lemon juice and they are put on the mashed fruit. Add the rest of fruit. Boil them on high fire no more than 2-3 min, stirring carefully. Take the sauce pan away and pour immediately the hot jam in jars, with a metallic lid, close them and keep them upside down until they cool. They are kept in a dark, cold place.

Enjoy it!


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