Macaroni-Shrimp Salad from Healthy Diabetic Recipes

Macaroni-Shrimp Salad from Healthy Diabetic Recipes
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If you are unsure whether this Macaroni-Shrimp Salad recipe is suitable for your personal diabetic diet, please consult your doctor or a qualified nutritionalist.



“In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.”
~ a nation taste-blind.” M.F.K. Fisher


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Macaroni-Shrimp Salad Recipe


Recipe Ingredients:

4 1/2 cups water
1 lb shrimp, unpeeled medium fresh
1 1/2 cups cooked elbow macaroni
1 cup frozen peas, thawed
2 hard-cooked eggs, chopped
1 medium bell pepper, chopped
1/2 cup chopped pimento
1 tbsp chopped onion
1/4 cup lite sour cream
1/2 cup lite mayonnaise
1/2 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
lettuce leaves

 

Recipe Instructions:

Bring the water to a boil; add the shrimp and cook 3 to 5 minutes. Drain well and rinse with cold water. Chill. Peel and devein shrimp.

In a large bowl, combine the shrimp and all ingredients except the mayonnaise, salt, and pepper. Toss well. Whisk together the mayonnaise, salt, and pepper and pour over shrimp mixture, tossing gently. Chill. Spoon the salad onto lettuce leaves and sprinkle!
with paprika to serve.

6 servings/Serving size: 1 cup

Exchanges: Medium-Fat Meat Exchange -- 2 Starch Exchange -- 1 Calories -- 234 Calories from Fat -- 86 Total Fat -- 10g Saturated Fat -- 2g Cholesterol -- 190mg Sodium -- 515mg Carbohydrate -- 18g Dietary Fiber -- 4g Sugars -- 5g Protein -- 18g

Recipe for Sunday, 4/19/98

This dish is great to bring to summer potlucks or backyard barbecues. Add thin slices of avocado or wedges of tomato for a colorful touch.

Do you have a basket of decorated Easter eggs sitting on your kitchen counter? Why not put these hard-boiled beauties to good use in one of this week's healthy recipes. Today's recipe is from the cookbook Southern-Style Diabetic Cooking.

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 formatted using MC Buster 2.0d & SNT on 4/26/98

Servings: 6






“Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, it should be available.”
~ Pearl Buck (1892-1973) American Nobel Prize winning author.


 

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This Macaroni-Shrimp Salad Recipe may also be ideal for anyone following the Atkins diet, or seeking to reduce their carbohydrate intake for other reasons.