Grain + Diabetic recipes (15)

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Barbecued Vegetables with Couscous

Recipe by: Christopher O'Hearn

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The sweetness of barbecued vegetables is balanced by a tart tomato sauce, which mixes perfectly with simple couscous. A lovely light summer meal that is sure to get you to your five a day.

Basic Polenta

Recipe by: IDAJ

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This recipe is for the polenta novice. Two ingredients - polenta and water. So if you can boil water...you can make a delicious pot of polenta every time! There are many options for polenta once it is cooked: you can mix in fresh herbs and cheeses, bake with vegetables, or fry it. Experiment and choose your favourite accompaniment!

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Bulghur wheat salad with lamb

Recipe by: Azmina Govindji

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For this tasty dish, tender lamb fillet is quickly cooked under the grill, then cut up and mixed into a salad of bulghur wheat, red pepper, green olives and fresh mint. No oil is used to dress the salad, just fresh lemon and orange juices, so the fat content is kept healthily low.

Cheesy Quinoa Pilaf with Spinach

Recipe by: alliecat3

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This creamy pilaf incorporates the fluffy, nutty-flavoured grain, quinoa, with a decadent and delicious hard goat cheese. This has an amazing flavour and texture. Try serving with steamed salmon. I think this would work well with pine nuts as well as a variety of other cheeses.

Crab, avocado and bulghur wheat salad

Recipe by: Azmina Govindji

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Fresh crab is a real summertime treat. It is rich in flavour and combines well in a salad with crunchy apples and bean sprouts, chunks of perfectly ripe avocados and nutty-flavoured bulghur wheat.

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Fish soup with pepper polenta

Recipe by: Azmina Govindji

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Good stock provides the flavour base for this delicate broth. If you are not making your own low-salt stock, try a high-quality commercial stock sold chilled, rather than a stock cube, but still keep added salt to the minimum. The polenta accompaniment is prepared in advance, so the soup is simple to cook at the last minute.

Lamb, butternut and barley stew

Recipe by: Norma MacMillan

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Like Irish stew and Lancashire hotpot, this hearty dish is made with good-quality lamb, plus lots of vegetables, pearl barley, and bay leaves and thyme for flavouring. It is simple to make, and comes out of the oven smelling and tasting absolutely wonderful. Serve with purple sprouting broccoli or curly kale and baked potatoes.

Minted barley and beans

Recipe by: Azmina Govindji

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The mild, sweet flavour and chewy texture of pearl barley is combined here with black-eyed beans and lots of colourful vegetables. A fresh-tasting tomato and mint dressing adds a summery feel to this wholesome salad. Serve on its own for lunch or supper, with some fresh fruit to follow.

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Mushroom Topped Polenta Fingers

Recipe by: Azmina Govindji

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Cooked and cooled polenta can be cut into shapes and grilled to make an excellent base for a tempting topping. Here the polenta is flavoured with Gruyère cheese, and the topping is a savoury mixture of mushrooms, walnuts and herbs. Serve as a sophisticated starter, with a few mixed salad leaves if you like.

Quinoa with griddled aubergines

Recipe by: Azmina Govindji

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Quinoa, a nutritious grain from South America, has a texture rather like split lentils when cooked. It makes a great alternative to rice. Here it is combined with griddled aubergines, peppers, cherry tomatoes and onions, and then baked with tangy goat's cheese on the top. Serve with a mixed leaf salad.

Roast turkey with lemon couscous

Recipe by: Azmina Govindji

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A small turkey like this is amazingly economical. It will give enough meat for at least 8 portions, or you can serve 4 people and have plenty of leftovers for sandwiches, salads and other dishes. Don't forget to keep the turkey carcass to make stock for soup.

Slow-braised beef and barley

Recipe by: Azmina Govindji

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Juniper berries give this dish a distinctive flavour. The beef is slowly simmered until meltingly tender, while nourishing pot barley soaks up some of the juices and thickens the rich gravy to make a hearty casserole. Serve with mashed potatoes and a green vegetable such as French beans or spring greens.

Spiced couscous tomatoes

Recipe by: Azmina Govindji

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Choose ripe, well-flavoured tomatoes for this dish. Hollowed out, they make the perfect container for a spicy aubergine, dried apricot and nut couscous. The vitamin C-rich juices are squeezed out of the scooped-out tomato flesh and seeds, and whisked with a little harissa paste to make a tangy dressing. Serve with sesame breadsticks.

Turkey, chestnut and barley broth

Recipe by: Azmina Govindji

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When you roast a turkey, don't throw away the carcass. Instead, use it to make this wonderfully rich-tasting soup. Reminiscent of an Italian minestrone, it is packed with vegetables, barley, turkey meat and chestnuts – a really satisfying bowl of soup. Serve with warm, crusty wholemeal bread.

Vegetable Soup with Couscous

Recipe by: Tania Covo

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This is a vegetarian stock that I serve over couscous. It's also good on its own. Hard-boiled eggs can be added according to the number of people being served.