Featured Recipe: Blueberry Bliss

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 cups chilled, fresh blueberries (do not substitute unsweetened, frozen blueberries)
• ¼ cup sugar-free, maple-flavored syrup
• 2 teaspoons freshly grated orange or grapefruit zest
• ½ cup nonfat, no-sugar-added vanilla yogurt

Instructions

Place blueberries in a serving bowl. Add syrup and orange or grapefruit zest. Gently toss to coat blueberries. Fold in yogurt and serve right away.

Nutrition Facts

Yield: 2 ½ cups
Serving Size: ½ cup

Per Serving:
  Calories: 57
  Carbohydrate: 12 g
  Protein: 1 g
  Fat: <1 g
  Saturated fat: 0
  Sodium: 43 mg
  Fiber: 2 g
  Exchanges per serving: 1 fruit
  Carbohydrate choices: 1

This recipe was developed by Tami Ross, a Diabetes Nutrition Specialist and Certified Diabetes Educator in Lexington, Kentucky.

Reprinted with permission from Diabetes Self-Management. © 2008 R.A. Rapaport Publishing, Inc. Visit us at DiabetesSelfManagement.com.