Shrimp Skewers from Healthy Diabetic Recipes

Shrimp Skewers Recipe

Recipe Ingredients:

6 oz large shrimp, (about 9)
3 cherry tomatoes
3 pearl onions
3 pieces green pepper, (1-inch)
6 slices zucchini, (1/2-inch)
3 whole mushrooms
3/4 cup unsweetened pineapple chunks
2 tbsp italian dressing

Recipe Instructions:

Alternate shrimp, vegetables, and pineapple on 3 skewers. Broil or grill about 5 minutes on each side or until done. Baste with Italian dressing while cooking. Serve over rice.

1 serving (3 skewers)

Exchanges: All dinner menus this week have about 550 calories 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: 33 g

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

Recipe for Tuesday, 8/25/98

All recipes this week are part of a complete dinner from the cookbook Magic Menus for People with Diabetes, featuring more than 200 low-fat, calorie-controlled meals to help you create thousands of delicious and well-balanced daily menus.

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: 1 serving Shrimp Skewers 2/3 cup cooked brown or white rice 1/2 cup sugar-free gelatin cubes with 2 Tbsp whipped topping

MC formatted by Barb at Possum Kingdom using MC Buster 2.0g & SNT on 8/30/98

Converted by MC_Buster.

Servings: 1

"Enchant, stay beautiful and graceful, but do this, eat well. Bring the same consideration to the preparation of your food as you devote to your appearance. Let your dinner be a poem, like your dress."

~ Charles Pierre Monselet

 

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