Ingredients
3 medium Size cucumbers
1 cup Plain low-fat yogurt
1 tbsp Fresh lemon juice
1 tsp Ground cumin
1 tsp Dried mint leaves
Directions
Peel cucumber, cut in half, discard seeds and slice thinly. Mix
remaining ingredients together, add cucumbers and stir together.
Food Exchange per serving: 1 VEGETABLE EXCHANGE; CAL: 37; CHO: 1mg;
CAR: 6g; PRO: 3g; SOD: 46mg; FAT: 0g;
Souce: Light & Easy Diabetes Cuisine by Betty Marks.
Brought to you and yours via Nancy O'Brion and her Meal-Master
Servings: 4 sweet ones
Indian Cucumber Salad Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Diabetic; Salads; Vegetables
The History of Recipes
Written recipes as a concept can be tracked way back into the far past, at least as far into history as the Egyptians, and possibly even further than that. Having said that, mostly, these ancient cookbooks were just very simple hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for preparing food.
Fascinatingly, the oldest recipe discovered, according to historians are a few tablets in the Sumerian language which describe the making of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as having made those who drank it feel `wonderful`. Progressing into The time of the roman empire around 25BC a roman called Apicius assembled a collection of scripts detailing recipes cooked by his fellow Romans. In his publication, he recounts how the meals of wealthy Romans were separated into starters, entrees and afters, something that is very familiar to us today. Aspicius describes how the Romans were skilled in the use of many different herbs, including a few that will be familiar to modern cooks for example thyme, mint and dill. Over the following few centuries, the upper-class families of Wesstern Europe competed to offer the best banquets, and consequentially cooks and their collection of recipes were much in demand. Notwithstanding that, it was during the 1800s the formal cooking and recipe publications reached a high level of popularity. The Famous Mrs Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Merritt Farmer in the US, spent years to assembling, verifying, and publishing recipes common in their social group. The introduction of television brings us TV cookery programs and the spin-off recipe books. And that brings us to the present day and the internet revolution, permitting everybody to access thousands of recipes like those on the site you are now reading. |
We hope you enjoy this Indian Cucumber Salad recipe.
