Keeping a balanced diet in diabetes is crucial to diabetes health. So, keeping a collection of diabetes recipes for dinner is a helpful tool you can use to keep your diabetes diet on track. According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), a healthy diabetes dinner should consist of half a plate of non-starchy vegetables, ¼ a plate of starchy foods, and one ¼ of the plate filled with meat or meat substitutes. Therefore, the diabetes recipes for dinner listed here follow these guidelines. It should be said, however, that you should check with your doctor or dietitian before changing your diet in anyway.

 

Diabetes Dinner Recipes

 

Diabetic Jalapeno Burgers

Ingredients

  • 2 jalapeno peppers, finely chopped and seeded
  • 1 lb. extra-lean ground beef
  • 6 whole-grain dinner rolls
  • 3 slices pepper Jack cheese, halved
  • 6 tbsp. salsa
  • 6 tbsp. fat-free sour cream
  • 6 tbsp. lettuce, shredded
  • 2 tbsp. fresh cilantro
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