According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), 1 in 3 Americans are currently living with diabetes or pre-diabetes. With numbers that high, there’s a good chance that you or someone you love has this condition.
My mother had Type 2 diabetes. When she came to live with us for the last few years of her life, I had to learn how to cook delicious food that would help keep her diabetes under control. I wish I had The 4-Ingredient Diabetes Cookbook back then!
The ADA has just released a new updated Second Edition of Nancy S. Hughes’s cookbook, subtitled “Simple, Quick and Delicious Recipes Using Just Four Ingredients or Less!” This easy-to-use cookbook includes over 160 recipes, from beverages to breakfast to snacks to dinner and even desserts. All of the recipes meet the ADA’s nutritional standards, and each recipe has a sidebar with exchanges and choices for people tracking their food intake. In addition to the recipes, there’s a great listing of Kitchen Tools You’ll Really Use and a section called Make the Most of All Your Meals with a breakdown of different meals and foods with Tips, Tricks, and Timesavers. Each recipe also includes Cook’s Tips with extra information or variations on the recipe.
Of course, this cookbook is designed for those with diabetes, but the recipes are so flavor-packed yet simple to prepare that anyone would enjoy having it in their cookbook collection. None of the techniques are too advanced for novice cooks, and the ingredients should be readily available in most supermarkets. The four-ingredient-per-recipe limit doesn’t include water, salt, pepper, or cooking spray, and use of things like canned tomatoes with chilis or frozen vegetable medleys helps streamline the ingredient list, too.
I’ve got several recipes marked to try, including:
Dilled Chex Toss
Panko Ranch Chicken Strips with Dipping Sauce
Extra-Easy Meatballs
Rosemary Rice with Fresh Spinach Greens
I’ve already made the Mashed Cauliflower with Sour Cream (twice!). It was as delicious as it was simple to prepare, and I’m sure I’ll be making it often. The one change I made to the recipe was to use an immersion blender to puree the cauliflower right in the pot, rather than pulling out the blender. However, it took more than twice as long as specified for my cauliflower to get tender.
Mashed Cauliflower with Sour Cream
(Serves 4; Serving Size 1/2 cup; Prep Time 10 minutes; Cook Time 10 minutes)
1 cup water
1 pound fresh or frozen cauliflower florets
1/4 cup fat-free sour cream
2 tablespoons no-trans-fat margarine (35% vegetable oil)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1. Bring the water to a boil in a large saucepan and add the cauliflower. Return to a boil, reduce the heat, cover tightly, and simmer 8 minutes or until tender.
2. Drain the cauliflower well and place it in a blender with the remaining ingredients. Hold the lid down tightly and blend until smooth. You may need to turn off the blender and scrape the mixture off the sides once or twice.
Cook’s Tip: Be sure to hold the blender lid down tightly—the heat of the vegetables may cause it to pop off.
Recipe ©2016 by the American Diabetes Association, Inc.® To order this book, please call 1-800-232-6733 or order online at ShopDiabetes.org.
Title: The 4-Ingredient Diabetes Cookbook, Second Edition: Simple, Quick and Delicious Recipes Using Just Four Ingredients or Less!
Author: Nancy S. Hughes
Publisher: American Diabetes Association
ISBN-13: 978-1-58040-637-6
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Both my mom and her husband have diabetes. This would be a great cookbook to have!
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I’m a diabetic and my husband is borderline. I would love to try different recipes but so many of them have way too many ingredients, more than I have at my home. I would love to learn other meals to make with less ingredients. Thank you for the chance.
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Yes I have diabetes and I am trying to eat healthier so this type of book is good. Some of the others I have have way too many ingredients for me.
My MIL has diabetes. I like the sound of four ingredient recipes.
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My Grandmother has diabetes – she just found out about it.
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My Mom has diabetes & I’d like to have some quick recipes for her.
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I am a big fan of any recipes that uses 4 ingredients or less, it just helps to really cut down on the prep time for me.
My sister is diabetic, I bet she would find this book helpful.
I would so love to get this cookbook for a family member who has diabetes. We love quick recipes that only use four ingredients or less and we make them whenever we can.
Unfortunately I’m the one with type 2 diabetes. I will happily use a 4 ingrediant recipe if the 4 ingredients are to my liking.
My aunt has diabetes. I think my grandma would love to make these recipes since she wants to lose weight.
I have a niece, sister and brother with diabetes. We could use this cookbook.
I have a family member that could benefit from this. With four ingredients it makes it easy dealing with diabetes.
My father in law had diabetes and so do some friends and family.
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I use quick recipes all the time for cooking here. My Mom and brother have Diabetes. I would love this cookbook for them.
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I am diabetic, & I love recipes that are simple to throw together! I will always gravitate toward recipes that have the fewest ingredients & take very little time!
I have a close friend that has diabetes. She works hard on eating the right foods.
I have diabetes and would love quick healthy meals.
My husband has diabetes. I am quite willing to use 4 ingredient recipes. I usually don’t count the number of products I add, just the taste of the recipe.