Diabetes-friendly recipe ideas for every season

Diabetes requires making healthy food choices and eating carefully. It’s not that difficult once you’ve found the correct balance of taste and nutrients. Avoiding high GI meals that can trigger blood sugar spikes and embracing complex carbs like healthy grains and vegetables like raw carrots, kidney beans, chickpeas, and lentils, among others, can help. It is important to prevent processed and fast foods such as biscuits, namkeen, cake, and ready-to-eat items. Controlling the portion size of your meals can also help to prevent a surge in your glucose levels. 

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Dinner meals do not have to be as complex as lunch meals, but they should also not be boring in flavour. A variety of veggies, spices, and lemon can be used. Instead of deep frying, healthier cooking methods such as roasting, grilling, stir-frying, boiling, and steaming should be used.

Here are some diabetic meal dishes that are as delicious as they are nutritious:

Lemon Rosemary Coconut Oil Roasted Vegetables

Ingredients:

• 2 cups trimmed carrots
• 1 cup Brussels sprouts, halved
• 1 cup green beans, trimmed
• 1 cup broccoli florets
• About 4 tbsp coconut oil, divided; melted or softened
• 2 tbsp fresh rosemary, chopped
• Juice half a lemon
• Salt and pepper to taste

Method:

Preheat the oven to 350°F and line a baking sheet with a Silpat nonstick baking mat, parchment paper, or cooking spray.

Put veggies on a tray (choice of vegetables is mix-and-match and amounts approximate; use what you have on hand or prefer).

Drizzle 2 tbsp melted coconut oil over the vegetables, or if solid, sprinkle small pea-sized pieces haphazardly over the vegetables and stir to coat.

Season with rosemary, salt, pepper, and any additional herbs and spices to taste.

Squeeze the lemon juice over the vegetables and bake for about 25 minutes, flipping them over halfway through.

If they look dry when turning, add 1 to 2 tablespoons coconut oil, or as needed.

Tomato and Vegetable White Bean Soup

Ingredients:

• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 large white or yellow onion (diced)
• 3 cloves garlic (minced)
• 1 cup carrots (sliced)
• 1/2 tsp each sea salt and black pepper (plus more to taste)
• 1 tsp dried basil, oregano, and garlic powder
• 1-pound red potatoes (quartered)
• 2 medium yellow squash or zucchini (sliced)
• 2 cans of fire-roasted tomatoes
• 1 ounce can of tomato sauce
• 5 cups veggie stock
• 1 ounce can of white beans (rinsed and drained)
• 3 cups kale (or other sturdy green/chopped)

Method:

Cook the vegetables in a large pot over medium heat.

Stir in the oil, then the onion, garlic, and carrot. Season with salt, pepper, and spices, and stir to combine. 

After that, add the squash, potatoes, fire-roasted tomatoes, tomato sauce, and vegetarian stock. Bring soup to a boil, then lower to low heat and cover.

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Cook for another 15 minutes, then toss in the beans and another pinch of salt and pepper. If the soup starts to boil, reduce the heat to a gentle simmer.

Cook for another 10 minutes, then add the kale, stir, and cover. Cook for 5 minutes more.

Seasonings should be tasted and adjusted as needed. Serve with crusty bread.

Mushroom and bean burger

Ingredients:

• 1 bowl of sliced fresh mushrooms
• 1 tsp herbs
• 1 tbsp chopped onion
• 1/4 cup bean (boiled kidney beans)
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 1 tbsp mashed potato
• Olive oil for pan searing
• 1 no. Tomato
• 1 no. cucumber
• Mayonnaise for spread
• Lettuce

Method:

Saute the onion and mushroom, then add the herbs. 

Saute the onion and mushroom, then add the herbs. 

Combine all of the ingredients and season well. 

Combine all of the ingredients and season well. 

Pan sear both sides.

Split the burger bread in half and toast both sides.

Spread mayonnaise on both sides, then top with lettuce, tomato slices, and cucumber slices.

Place a pan-seared patty on top of that.

With tomato ketchup, serve.

Lemon garlic salmon

Ingredients:

• 1 salmon steak 180 gm
• 1 tbsp Garlic
• 1 no. Lime
• 1 tsp parsley
• 1 tbsp olive oil

Method:

Take salmon steak and marinate with salt, pepper, garlic, lemon juice, and zest.

Then pan sear in olive oil on both sides. Cook well.

Serve with lemon wedges.

Hope this will help you a lot. Make sure you try all instructions as mentioned above you will definitely get the best result as well as fantastic tasty food. Till then take precautions while cooking, eat tasty food and stay tuned for the tasty recipes!!!