What can diabetics treat themselves with?
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At first glance, a diabetic diet doesn't include sweets or starchy foods. However, desserts can include fruits, spices, nuts, and even sugar substitutes. This article will provide you with recipes for cookies, pie, strudel, and pudding for diabetics.
Carrot pudding
Ingredients: 150 grams of carrots, 1 chicken egg, 50 grams of 5% cottage cheese, 1 tbsp. butter, 2 tbsp. cold water, 2 tbsp. sour cream (low-fat), a pinch of grated ginger, 50 milliliters of milk, 1 tsp. cumin and coriander, sorbitol.
- Peeled carrots are grated and covered with cold water. Let them steep for three hours, changing the water every hour.
- The softened carrots are squeezed through cheesecloth and stewed for 7 minutes with milk and butter.
- The whites are separated from the yolks. The whites are whipped with sorbitol, and the yolks with cottage cheese. All of this is added to the carrots.
- The mixture is transferred to a baking dish, which is pre-greased with oil and sprinkled with coriander and cumin.
- Bake for 20 minutes in an oven preheated to 180°C. This diabetic pudding is recommended to be served with sour cream.
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Ingredients: a kilogram of oatmeal, a glass of warm water, a glass of olive oil, juice of half a lemon, a glass of walnuts, a glass of raisins, 2 teaspoons of sorbitol, 2 teaspoons of lemon juice.
- Raisins (large, light-colored dried fruits, such as the Uzbek variety, are best used in desserts) and walnuts are chopped and mixed with oatmeal.
- Olive oil is mixed with warm water and added to the mixture of cereal and dried fruits.
- Add sorbitol, baking soda, and lemon juice to the resulting dough and mix thoroughly.
- Diabetic cookies are formed from this dough and baked for 15 minutes on parchment paper at 200°C.
Orange pie
Ingredients: orange, egg, 30 grams of sorbitol, a pinch of cinnamon, 100 grams of ground almonds, 2 teaspoons of lemon zest.
- The orange is boiled in water for about 20 minutes. Then it is cooled, cut, and the seeds are removed.
- The orange, along with the peel, is ground in a blender.
- Beat the egg with sorbitol. Gently whisk in the lemon juice and zest.
- After adding ground almonds, the dough is gently mixed.
- Orange puree is added to the egg mixture.
- The finished dough is placed into the mold.
- The pie for diabetics needs to be baked for 40 minutes at 180°C.
Pear strudel
Ingredients: 40 grams of whole grain flour, a pinch of salt (it is better to add regular salt to desserts), 120 milliliters of water, 40 milliliters of vegetable oil, 2 pears, lemon juice, 50 grams of hazelnuts, a pinch of nutmeg.
- Knead the dough from flour, salt, water and vegetable oil.
- Cut the peeled pear into cubes.
- Mix the chopped nuts and nutmeg with the pear. Add lemon juice.
- Roll out the dough into a thin layer and spread the filling on it.
- The dough is carefully rolled into a roll.
- Strudel for diabetics is baked for half an hour on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil at a temperature of 210°C.
Apples can be used as a substitute. Be sure to dust the finished roll with powdered sugar. Note that apple strudel is a classic treat that you're sure to love!
