Sliced beet salad

2 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1½ cup Sliced canned / cooked beets
1 Bay leaf
4 Whole cloves
4 Whole allspice
1 small Grapefruit
1 pack Equal sweetener (2 tsp)

Directions

Drain the liquid from the canned beets, reserving ½ cup. (Use water with fresh beets.) Combine the ½ 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.

½ recipe - 86 calories, ½ 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 Shared but not tested by Elizabeth Rodier, Nov 93

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