Recipe: Sliced Beet Salad (Diabetic)

Title: SLICED BEET SALAD
Categories: Diabetic, Vegetables, Salads, Vegetarian, Side dish
Yield: 2 servings

1 1/2 c Sliced canned / cooked beets
1 Bay leaf
4 Whole cloves
4 Whole allspice
1 sm Grapefruit
1 pk Equal sweetener (2 tsp)

Drain the liquid from the canned beets, reserving 1/2
cup. (Use water with fresh beets.) Combine the 1/2
cup beet liquid, bay leaf, cloves and allspice in a
small saucepan. Heat to boiling. Lower the heat and
simmer for 5 minutes.

Section the grapefruit. Remove the spices from the
liquid and pour over the beet slices and grapefruit
sections. Add the sweetener. Marinate for at least 1
hour before serving. Drain off the liquid before
serving.

1/2 recipe - 86 calories, 1/2 fruit exchange, 2
vegetable exchanges 21 grams carbohydrate, 2 grams
protein, 0 fat 302 mg sodium, 380 mg potassium, 0
cholesterol

Source: Am. Diabetes Assoc. Holiday Cookbook by Betty
Wedman, 1986