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Title: Greek Burgers For Diabetics
Yield: 4 Servings

Ingredients

      1 lb extra-lean ground beef
      1    clove garlic; minced
      2 tb fresh lemon juice
      1 ts dried oregano leaves
    1/4 ts ground cumin
    1/4 ts ground pepper
      1 md size plum tomato
      2 tb flat-leaf parsley; minced
      4    6 whole-wheat pita pocket
           -breads
      1    romaine lettuce leaves
      1 sm red onion; sliced

Instructions

Date: 05 Mar 1996 22:41 GMT

From: "Lisabeth Crawford (Pooh)" <104105.1416@compuserve.com>
Mix ground beef, garlic; lemon juice, oregano leaves; cumin, pepper, plum
tomato, and parsley. Form into 4 patties about 3/4" thick. Grill or broil,
4" from souce of heat, ofr 3 minutes, for 3 minutes on each side for
medium-rare. Cut the top thrie off each of four 6" whole-wheat pita pocket
breads. Turn the cut-off piece round side down; tuck inside to pocket
bread to reinforce bottom. Place a grilled burger in each pocket bread
along with a romaine lettuce leaf and paper-thin slices from 1 small red
onion. Pass 1/4 cup Cilantro Chutney (page 218) to spoon into burgers.
Note: These hamburgers could be made with lean ground lamb. The exchanges
would stay the same, but lamb add 17 calories and 2 grams of fat (mostly
saturated fat) per serving Joslin Food Exchanges per serving: 3 MEDIUM/FAT
MEAT EXCHANGES + 2 BREAD/ STARCH EXCHANGES CAL: 346 PRO: 27; CAR: 26g; FAT:
15g;(CALORIES FROM FAT 39%) FIR: 2g; CHO: 54mg; SODIUM: 285mg; POTASSIUM:
441mg;

Source: The Joslin Diabetes Groumet Cookbook Brought to you and yours via
Nancy O'Brion and her Meal-Master

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