Sliced Beet Salad
Grrrrrgh!
Course : Vegetables
From: HungryMonster.com
Serves: 2
 

Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
   1 1/2  cups          sliced canned / cooked beets
   1                    bay leaf
   4                    whole         cloves
   4      whole         allspice
   1      small         grapefruit
   1      package       equal sweetener (2 tsp)
 

Preparation:

Drain the liquid from the canned beets, reserving 1/2 cup. (Use water with fresh beets.) Combine the 1/2 cup beet liquid, bay leaf, cloves and allspice in a small saucepan. Heat to boiling. Lower the heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Section the grapefruit. Remove the spices from the liquid and pour over the beet slices and grapefruit sections. Add the sweetener. Marinate for at least 1 hour before serving. Drain off the liquid before serving.

 

Nutritional Information:

1/2 recipe - 86 calories, 1/2 fruit exchange, 2 vegetable exchanges 21 grams carbohydrate, 2 grams protein, 0 fat 302 mg sodium, 380 mg potassium, 0 cholesterol