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Diabetes-Friendly Home-Style Dinner Recipes

August 27, 2019
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You can still enjoy warm and cozy comfort meals without derailing your healthy-eating goals. Add these healthy home-style recipes to your dinner rotation to stay on track. Whether you're craving pot roast or shepherd's pie, lasagna or casserole these delicious diabetes-friendly recipes will satisfy your craving for a hearty meal while limiting calories, carbs and saturated fat.
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Chicken-Noodle Casserole

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Flavorful Chicken-Noodle Casserole comes to life with this diabetic-friendly recipe. Select light sour cream to lower fat and calorie content.

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Mushroom and Beef Soup

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Kale adds vitamins and an enticing cabbage-like flavor to this mushroom and beef soup. Be sure to use fresh kale as it can become pungent if stored too long.

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Instant Pot Beef Pot Roast

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Enjoy the comfort of perfectly cooked pot roast without the hours of roasting with this recipe that makes use of a multicooker, like the Instant Pot. Just 45 minutes in the pressure cooker is all it takes to make tender pot roast with potatoes and carrots alongside.

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Mushroom and Chicken Stroganoff

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Using light dairy sour cream makes a creamy, but low fat, sauce for this quick and easy chicken dinner.

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Italian Bread & Tomato Soup

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Inspired by Tuscany's legendary pappa al pomodoro, this soup is a great way to use stale bread. The traditional version doesn't contain kale or a topping of squash and grape tomatoes, but why not?

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Chicken & Mushroom Shepherd's Pie

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The creamy chicken filling is spiked with sherry and the potatoes are mashed with olive oil in this healthy shepherd's pie recipe. To make individual pies, use six 10-ounce ramekins. Serve with a green salad with balsamic vinaigrette and crusty bread.

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Instant Pot Split Pea & Ham Soup Freezer Pack

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Prep and freeze all the ingredients for this homey classic ahead of time, and it will be ready to cook and serve any night of the week--no lengthy simmering needed, thanks to the multicooker. Freezing the ingredients in a round container creates the perfect fit for an easy transfer into your pressure cooker without having to thaw first.

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Saucy Pot Roast with Noodles

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Sometimes the best meals are the ones that are the easiest to prepare. This pot roast is simple to make--a quick searing on the stove and then a long simmer in the slow cooker with vegetables and stewed tomatoes. Served over hot noodles, this flavorful recipe is one you'll love.

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Zucchini & Turkey Lasagna

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This tasty lasagna recipe can be eaten immediately or frozen to enjoy on a night where you just don't feel like making dinner. As a bonus, we put turkey and zucchini in our recipe to sneak in some extra protein and a serving of veggies.

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Chicken & White Bean Soup

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Once again, rotisserie chickens can really relieve the dinner-rush pressure-especially in this Italian-inspired soup that cries out for a piece of crusty bread and a glass of red wine.

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Lamb & Lentil Shepherd's Pie

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This twist on a traditional Shepard's Pie recipe uses lentils and is garnished with fresh mint.

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Easy Chicken Pot Pie

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We made this savory pie recipe lower in fat and calories by stir-frying the vegetables using nonstick spray coating instead of butter or oil.

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Baked Cavatelli Casserole

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This easy to make, comforting dish will keep you warm on a cold day.

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Instant Pot Potato Soup

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Russet potatoes turn tender and soft in minutes in a pressure cooker, so you can make this comforting soup quickly on busy weeknights. Garnish with the classic potato soup fixings--bacon, scallions and melted Cheddar cheese.

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Baked Ratatouille-Sausage Penne

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In the mood for Italian? Try this low-fat sausage-and-eggplant one-dish meal recipe.

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Chicken Pasta Primavera

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Ready in under an hour, this pasta and veggie dish is perfect for any night of the week!

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Norma's Mushroom Barley Soup

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Long-simmered marrow bones give this soup its luxurious flavor. The texture of the finished soup is hearty--bordering on a soupy risotto.

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Smoked Turkey, Kale & Rice Bake

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This hearty one-skillet dinner is loaded with celery, kale, tomatoes and quick-cooking brown rice. It's easy to make the recipe vegetarian by substituting smoked tofu for the turkey.

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Versatile Saucy Meatballs

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These versatile meatballs can be served for lunch in a meatball sandwich or for dinner over pasta. If you're looking for an easy healthy dinner that's low in calories and carbs, try serving them over cooked, shredded spaghetti squash instead of pasta!

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Chicken & Spinach Skillet Pasta with Lemon & Parmesan

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This one-pan pasta that combines lean chicken breast and sautéed spinach for a one-bowl meal is garlicky, lemony and best served with a little Parm on top. I call it "Mom's Skillet Pasta" and she called it "Devon's Favorite Pasta." Either way it's a quick and easy weeknight dinner we created together and scribbled on a little recipe card more than a decade ago, and it remains in my weekly dinner rotation to this day. It's a simple dinner the whole family will love.

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Turkey & Brown Rice Chili

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This hearty turkey chili recipe takes just 35 minutes to prep. While it's cooking, you'll have time to throw together a green salad and warm up some crusty bread to complete the meal.

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Chicken Enchilada Casserole

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We lightened up this enchilada recipe with a creamy filling that includes just a small amount of light sour cream, rather than loads of regular sour cream.

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Chicken Pot Pies

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These chicken pot pies are full to the brim with vegetables and savory spices, and make the perfect comfort food for a night in.

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1 of 23 Chicken-Noodle Casserole
2 of 23 Mushroom and Beef Soup
3 of 23 Instant Pot Beef Pot Roast
4 of 23 Mushroom and Chicken Stroganoff
5 of 23 Italian Bread & Tomato Soup
6 of 23 Chicken & Mushroom Shepherd's Pie
7 of 23 Instant Pot Split Pea & Ham Soup Freezer Pack
8 of 23 Saucy Pot Roast with Noodles
9 of 23 Zucchini & Turkey Lasagna
10 of 23 Chicken & White Bean Soup
11 of 23 Lamb & Lentil Shepherd's Pie
12 of 23 Easy Chicken Pot Pie
13 of 23 Baked Cavatelli Casserole
14 of 23 Instant Pot Potato Soup
15 of 23 Baked Ratatouille-Sausage Penne
16 of 23 Chicken Pasta Primavera
17 of 23 Norma's Mushroom Barley Soup
18 of 23 Smoked Turkey, Kale & Rice Bake
19 of 23 Versatile Saucy Meatballs
20 of 23 Chicken & Spinach Skillet Pasta with Lemon & Parmesan
21 of 23 Turkey & Brown Rice Chili
22 of 23 Chicken Enchilada Casserole
23 of 23 Chicken Pot Pies

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