When undergoing a diabetes diet, diabetes recipes must be made with much caution so as to control the blood sugar and pressure levels of the person experiencing diabetes. One of the basic guidelines when preparing such recipes is to avoid too much sugar because these sugars can distort the regular level of insulin in the body. So is there really no way to eat sweet food now?
Actually, there is still a way with these few diabetes recipes that are low in sugar. You can try them out and even research more online.
Banana Bread
Banana bread is ideal because of the carbohydrates and other vitamins that it contains. To make banana bread, you will only need mashed ripe bananas, fat-free yogurt, eggs, vanilla, margarine, flour, baking powder and baking soda, and low amount of salt. You will beat most ingredients except for flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, which you have to mix separately. You will then combine the two different mixtures and bake for about 40 minutes.
Apricot Oatmeal Muffins
Another healthy baked food is apricot oatmeal muffins, which is made by simply using oats and dried apricots as the main ingredients. Other ingredients are basic baking ingredients that you can easily find in grocery stores. You need low-fat buttermilk, eggs, margarine, flour, granulated sugar or fructose, baking powder and baking soda. You just need to combine and mix the ingredients well, making sure that all the dry ingredients are moistened. Avoid mixing the ingredients too much. Once you are done combining, you can put the batter in muffin cups and then bake until golden brown.
Bran Muffins
Lastly, we have the bran muffins, which are made from 100% bran cereal, skim milk, margarine, egg, vanilla, flour, baking powder, and ground cinnamon. You can use a sweetener such as Equal as well. To make these muffins, you just need to combine the materials, stir them until blended, and put the batter into greased muffin tins. Baking will only take about 25 minutes for 1 dozen of these delicious and healthy muffins.
With these delicious but healthy baked treats, diabetes recipes can still be as pleasant as your regular recipes.