Black Bean Cakes from Healthy Diabetic Recipes

Black Bean Cakes Recipe

Recipe Ingredients:

1 1/4 cups cooked black beans
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro, or parsley
2 tbsp korean chili-garlic paste, or plain tomato paste
1 egg
2 tbsp skim milk, or 1% milk
salt and pepper, to taste
1/4 cup bread crumbs
2 tbsp olive oil

Recipe Instructions:

Thoroughly mix all ingredients except bread crumbs and olive oil. Add bread crumbs to mixture and form into 4 patties.

Gently slide patties into an oiled, hot saut‚ pan. Saut‚ until brown and crisp on both sides.

Exchanges: All dinner menus this week have about 550 calories total and include:

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

Total Fat -- 20g Total Carbohydrate -- 45g Protein -- 33g

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

Recipe for Friday, 5/1/98

Notes: This week we are featuring complete dinner 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).

Dinner: 2 Black Bean Cakes with 1/2 cup Cilantro Salsa and 2 Tbsp low-fat sour cream 1/2 cup frozen yogurt

Copyright © 1998 American Diabetes Association

MC formatted using MC Buster 2.0f & SNT on 5/6/98


Notes: 2 servings/Serving size: 2 cakes

Servings: 2

“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.”

~ Doug Larson

 

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