Chef Robert’s Mediterranean Chicken with Love Recipe

Chef Robert Lewis, aka The Happy Diabetic” shared his experience living with Type 2 diabetes, connecting with audiences through food, and how you can begin making healthy meals at home with the Divabetic community on Divabetic’s recent free Zoom Cooking Party.

Chef Robert Lewis, The Happy Diabetic, is a nationally recognized author and motivational speaker who is passionate about helping people learn to live a healthier lifestyle. Chef Lewis graduated from the prestigious Culinary Institute of America in 1976. He was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1998. Thus began his motivation to create great tasting dishes that are easy to prepare. He travels the country speaking on the benefits of healthy eating not only for people affected by diabetes, but also for anyone who would like to eat and live a healthy lifestyle. 

Chef Robert’s Mediterranean Chicken of Love Recipe 

Ingredients                                                                                                                                                           

1 T extra-virgin olive oil

8 ounce skinless, precooked chicken brest sliced

1 T chopped garlic

Half a red bell pepper sliced, and green bell pepper sliced or 6-7 mini multi colored peppers sliced

½ red onion sliced

5-6 stalks of asparagus

2-3 large white button mushrooms sliced

1/2 cup grape tomatoes or Roma tomato diced

1/4 cup white wine or vegetable broth

1 t dried oregano

1 t dried rosemary

2-4 leafs of fresh basil or 1 t dried basil

10 black pitted olives or kalamata olives

1 can 15 oz. white Italian beans (drained well)

Black pepper, to taste

½ fresh lime

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Thai Chicken Lettuce Wraps Recipe from Collar Greens Health & Wellness Day

Enoy this popular, low carb Thai Chicken Lettuce Wraps recipe from Collar Greens Health & Wellness Day presented at Central Farm Markets in Fairfax, VA. This recipe is adapted from the American Diabetes Association’s Diabetes Forecast Magazine.

A low-carb diet can help people with diabetes better manage their blood sugar levels. Carbohydrates or carbs raise blood sugar levels more than other foods.

Thai Chicken Lettuce Wraps

Ingredients

6 large lettuce leaves, Boston or Bibb lettuce works well

4 oz. skinless chicken breast, grilled or poached, and finely chopped

2 tbsp Asian peanut sauce (recipe below)

1 carrot, julienned or grated

1 red pepper, diced

2 scallions, thinly sliced

Directions

Toss the chicken with the peanut sauce

Laying a piece of the lettuce on a plate. Top the lettuces with the chicken, peanut sauce, carrots, peppers, and scallions. Roll up the lettuce leaf and enjoy.

Makes: 6 servings

Serving Size: 1 wrap 

Asian Peanut Sauce Recipe

Ingredients

1 cup  creamy peanut butter

1 1/2 cups reduced -sodium, low-fat chicken broth

1/4 cup fresh lime juice

3 tbsp Splenda Brown Sugar blend

2 tbsp  light (lower-sodium) soy sauce

2 tbsp peeled and grated fresh ginger

1/2 tsp crushed red chili flakes

Directions

Heat the peanut butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Add the chicken broth, and mix until combined. 

Add in the remaining ingredients, and cook over medium-low heat for 5 minutes, or until thickened. Use as sauce over cooked shrimp, scallops, chicken, turkey, or beef.

Store in a sealed container in the refrigerator for 2-3 days for the freezer for 3 months 

*this recipe contains gluten because of the soy sauce 

Watch Divabetic’s Thai Chicken Lettuce Cooking Demonstration at Collar Greens Health & Wellness Day on Facebook Live Video

Have Fun Counting Carbs!