Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Yummy Salad For Diet and Diabetes

Salad could be unbored food, that's why most people like this kind of food. Below are the salad's recipes that also good for diet or diabetic suffer because it use unsweetened applesauce for the taste.

Saucy Cranapple Salad

1 env. unflavored gelatin
1/4 c. cold water to soften above
1 (4 serving) pkg. sugar-free raspberry gelatin
1 c. boiling water
2 c. (1/2 lb.) frozen cranberries
1 c. juice-pack unsweetened crushed pineapple* with juice
1 c. unsweetened applesauce*
5 packets artificial sweetener

Place the clean, still frozen berries in the boiling water. Return to boiling and allow berries to pop open around 8 to 15 minutes. Do not stir! Soften the unflavored gelatin in the 1/4 cup cold water, then add both gelatins to the hot cranberries; stir until dissolved. Add the pineapple with juice, the applesauce, and sweetener. Do not prepare this in a gelatin mold! Stir. Pour into a 10 cup mold and chill until set.

Note:
1 serving = 1 fruit exchange (approximately 60 calories).



Dietetic Pasta Salad

Corkscrew pasta
4 fresh mushrooms, sliced
1 cucumber, sliced
Kraft reduced calorie zesty Italian dressing
1 onion, sliced
1 tomato, diced
1 green pepper, chopped

Cook and rinse pasta in cold water, mix with remaining ingredients and marinate in dressing. Chill and serve.

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Yummy Diabetic Recipes