Presto Pesto Eggplant from Healthy Diabetic Recipes

Presto Pesto Eggplant from Healthy Diabetic Recipes

If you are unsure whether this Presto Pesto Eggplant recipe is suitable for your personal diabetic diet, please consult your doctor or a qualified nutritionalist.



"A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die."
~ 'A Tramp Abroad', Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910)


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Presto Pesto Eggplant Recipe


Recipe Ingredients:

1 small eggplant, thickly sliced
into 1" circles
1 tbsp prepared pesto sauce
1 small tomato, diced
Freshly-ground black pepper, to taste
1 tbsp Parmesan cheese
2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley

 

Recipe Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray a baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray. Lay the eggplant slices on the baking sheet. Be sure the sides are not touching.

Coat the top of each slice with a thin layer of the pesto sauce.

Top each slice with a portion of the diced tomato. Sprinkle with the pepper, then the cheese.

Garnish with the parsley and bake for 15 minutes or until the eggplant is soft and the cheese is lightly golden.

This recipe yields 2 servings. Serving size: 1/2 recipe.

Exchanges Per Serving: 1 Starch or 3 Vegetable, 1/2 Monounsaturated Fat.

Nutrition Facts: Calories 96; Calories from Fat 40; Total Fat 4g; Saturated Fat 1g; Cholesterol 4mg; Sodium 114mg; Carbohydrate 13g; Dietary Fiber 5g; Sugars 8g; Protein 4g.

Source:
"American Diabetes Association at http://www.diabetes.org"
S(Formatted for MC6):
"09-28-2002 by Joe Comiskey - jcomiskey@krypto.net"
Copyright:
"© American Diabetes Association, 1999"

Servings: 2




“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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Important Note: This Presto Pesto Eggplant recipe was located in the public domain.It is suitable' for diabetics and low carb diets solely because someone, somewhere, decided to publish them as such. I am not qualified in medicine or nutrition, so please use your own common sense when deciding which are appropriate for your particular diet.

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