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Beef and Sweet Potato Stew
You can substitute butternut squash for the sweet potatoes in this recipe if you’d like. This stew is excellent served over the Root Vegetable Cakes.
Jamaican Pork Tenderloin Roast
One of the most pleasurable ways to eat lean meat is to pair it with fruit. Here, a small amount of tropical fruit juice goes a long way, adding unique flavor, succulence, and a boost of antioxidants. This roast is delightful paired with butternut squash, sweet potatoes, or dark leafy greens.
Vegetable Stew With Fresh Rosemary
This stew is like a farmers’ market in a bowl with its wide range of colorful, tender vegetables, including green asparagus and zucchini, orange carrots, and bright yellow summer squash. If you have a green thumb, feel free to create new combinations based on your garden’s bounty
Tuna Kebabs
When you’re looking to cook out, try fresh tuna flavored with an Asian-style marinade and skewered with bell peppers, tender squash, crunchy red onion, and succulent tomatoes and pineapple.
Roasted Winter Vegetables
Roasting winter root vegetables caramelizes their natural sugars, producing a complex, toasty, and lightly sweet flavor. This recipe calls for a variety of winter vegetables, but you could use any combination, as long as you end up with about 12 cups total of bite-size pieces. This recipe can easily be cut in half if you're not cooking for a crowd. For added acidity, you could drizzle lightly with balsamic vinegar just before serving.
Roasted Root Vegetable Soup
Roasting the vegetables in this recipe helps to maximize the flavor of the soup. What’s more - all of these veggies are abundant and available during the winter months. Find this recipe and more in The Diabetes Cookbook. To order dierctly from the American Diabetes Association, click here.
Kidney Bean Stew
Beans are a staple in Latin cuisine: Cuban black beans, Mexican refried pinto beans, etc. These red kidney beans are popular in Puerto Rican and Dominican cuisine. Receta en Español aquí
9 Sweet and Savory Recipes for Fall
Pumpkin spice usually takes the spotlight when the weather starts to cool, but fall is also the season of apples, winter squash, and other autumn vegetables! You'll find many choices in your grocery store, so it’s a great time of year to try some new recipes. We've collected our favorite fall recipes that take advantage of the seasonal fruits and veggies. Chicken Apple Crunch Salad Refreshing and packed with protein, this dish has tender chicken and sweet apples tossed in a light dressing. Perfect for lunch or dinner! Sweet Potato Kale Hash Brighten up your plate with this one-skillet dish
Meal Prep: Fall Harvest
During the fall season, there is a wide variety of winter squashes that can be used on your menu. These squashes can make meal prep easy with a three-step process for cooking them—wash, bake, cool. Let the prep for these seasonal quality carbs give you ideas for nutritious, fall-themed dishes for you and your loved ones to enjoy. Spaghetti Squash Pasta Unlike other winter squash, the flesh of spaghetti squash is stringy and fibrous, making it look like spaghetti noodles. This makes it a great low-carb substitute for pasta in your favorite spaghetti recipes. How to roast spaghetti squash
Satay Zucchini Noodles
Zucchini acts like noodles to make this main dish fresh and filling. But it’s the flavors, textures, and beauty that’ll bring you back to this recipe again and again. Use one zucchini and one yellow summer squash for the best looking results. Make it with steak, and it’s a marvelous meal in one. This recipe from The With or Without Meat Cookbook, by Jackie Newgent. To order directly from the American Diabetes Association, click here.