Down-Home Green Beans from Healthy Diabetic Recipes

Down-Home Green Beans Recipe

Recipe Ingredients:

1 tsp olive oil
1/4 cup minced onion
2 oz canadian bacon, minced
3 cups green beans, cut into 3-inch lengths
1/2 cup low-fat, low-sodium chicken broth
fresh ground pepper

Recipe Instructions:

Heat the oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and saut‚ for 3 minutes.

Add the bacon and cook until crispy, about 5 minutes. Remove the bacon mixture from the skillet.

Add the green beans and broth to the skillet. Cover and steam for 3 minutes.

Return the bacon mixture to the skillet and mix well.

Season with pepper and serve.

Exchanges: Vegetable Exchange -- 1 Monounsaturated Fat Exchange -- 1/2 Calories -- 47 Calories from Fat -- 16 Total Fat -- 2g Saturated Fat -- 0g Cholesterol -- 5mg Sodium -- 131mg Carbohydrate -- 6g Dietary Fiber -- 2g Sugars -- 2g Protein -- 3g

Recipe for Sunday, 3/1/98 This week we are featuring an array of traditional African American recipes in celebration of Black History Month and to help launch our new African American Program. Today's recipe is from the cookbook Memorable Menus Made Easy. 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).

Copyright © 1998 American Diabetes Association

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

NOTES : 6 servings/Serving size: 1/2 cup

Posted to RecipeLu List by "abprice@wf.net" <abprice@wf.net> on Mar 12, 1998.

Servings: 1

“Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well mitched they are as body and soul, living partners.”

~ Andre Simon (1877-1970)

 

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