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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.
6 Best Fresh Summer Herbs to Use
Herbs can take a dish from being plain to having pizzazz. Whether from your garden, window box, farmer’s market, or grocery store, fresh herbs add freshness, flavor, fragrance, and eye appeal to meals.
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.
Scalloped Potatoes
Potato dishes are a common holiday item. Serve this creamy potato side at your holiday dinner. No one will even know it’s a “healthy” version of scalloped potatoes!
Moroccan Lentils with Stewed Tomatoes
You can prepare the lentils ahead of time for a quick weeknight meal that will be ready in minutes. Pair this with a Mixed Pepper Medley for a satisfying vegan dish, full of plant-based proteins and non-starchy vegetables. Find this recipe and more in the second edition our best-selling cookbook, The Mediterranean Diabetes Cookbook. To order directly from the American Diabetes Association, click here.
Pumpkin Risotto (Risotto Di Zucca)
The traditional butter and cream in this recipe have been replaced with olive oil and yogurt. With pumpkin, the risotto achieves a creamy consistency without the extra fat.
Haricots Verts with Hazelnuts (Fagiolini Alle Nocciole)
The classic combination of green beans and hazelnuts is as healthful as it is tasty. Variations of this dish can be found throughout Italy during the appropriate season. Hazelnuts are one of the oldest cultivated crops in Europe; records of them being traded from the ports of Genoa go back to the 11th century. Currently, Turkey and Italy produce the majority of the world’s hazelnuts.
Braised Fennel and White Beans
Pair these braised beans and fennel with a side of a chicken for a complete, comforting meal.
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
Walnut Lentil Salad
This vegetarian salad is packed with protein and fiber from the lentils. You can switch up the veggies and use whatever is in your fridge. Try adding chopped cucumber, broccoli, peapods or carrots to this salad. You could also try mixing in leftover proteins like grilled chicken, shrimp or tofu.