Portions:
8

Serving Size:
1 stuffed cucumber ring (1/4 cucumber)

    Diet Types:
  • CKD non-dialysis
  • Diabetes
  • Dialysis
  • Lower Protein
  • Gluten-free

Ingredients

  • 2 cucumbers
  • 1 pound ground pork
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon cornstarch
  • 2 teaspoons sugar
  • 3 tablespoons red wine
  • 1 tablespoon garlic powder
  • 1 tablespoon fresh minced ginger
  • 1-1/2 tablespoons Mrs. Dash® Lemon Pepper seasoning blend
  • 1-1/2 tablespoons Mrs. Dash® Chicken Grilling Blend
  • 1 teaspoon dried basil
  • 1 teaspoon dried parsley
  • 1/4 cup water

Preparation

  1. Peel cucumbers and cut each cucumber horizontally into 4 round pieces. Remove seeds from the middle of each cucumber round to make it hollow in the center.
  2. In a mixing bowl combine ground meat with egg, cornstarch, sugar, wine, garlic powder, ginger, Mrs. Dash seasonings, basil and parsley.
  3. Add 1/4 cup water gradually into ground meat mixture and mix well until water is absorbed. 
  4. Stuff the cucumber round with ground meat stuffing. Place each piece in a food steamer and steam about 15 minutes until meat is done.

Helpful hints

  • If you like cucumber to be a little softer, steam up to 20 minutes.
  • Use a rice cooker/food steamer or steam on the stove top in a wok or pan with a metal or bamboo steam basket.
  • You can thicken the juices from cooked Cucumber Rings by adding one teaspoon cornstarch to juices in a sauce pan and heat until sauce thickens. Drizzle the sauce over cucumbers and top with chopped green onion.  
  • This recipe works well with ground chicken or turkey if poultry is preferred over pork.

Nutrients per serving

Calories 162

Protein 13 g

Carbohydrates 5 g

Fat 10 g

Cholesterol 66 mg

Sodium 43 mg

Potassium 323 mg

Phosphorus 140 mg

Calcium 30 mg

Fiber 0.5 g

Kidney and kidney diabetic food choices

  • 1-1/2 meat
  • 1 vegetable, medium potassium

Carbohydrate choices

0

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Comments(2)

btmailman

Jun. 06, 2019 2:05 PM

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Hi, thanks for the meat substitute hint. I have a couple of questions, though. The recipe calls for red wine, and I'm familiar with the use of dry sherry in such recipes if one cannot obtain Chinese rice wine easily? It also says to use a steamer, and then it says "You can thicken the juices from cooked Cucumber Rings by adding one teaspoon cornstarch to juices...". How can one obtain those juices if they are going into the water used to steam the cucumbers? Thanks for any information you may have. Dietitian comment: Yes the sherry will work as a replacement for the red wine. Avoid the cooking sherry as it has added salt. See my other answer in the previous question response.

btmailman

Jun. 09, 2019 1:38 PM

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Hi, if this is a double submission forgive me. I posted last week and I haven't seen it yet. Thanks for the turkey substitution. I have a question, though. You call for steaming the cucumber rings and then "You can thicken the juices from cooked Cucumber Rings by adding one teaspoon cornstarch to juices in a sauce pan and heat until sauce thickens..." If steaming the cucumber rings in a bamboo steamer (or otherwise) aren't the juices going to go into the steaming water? How does one thicken them? Please advise. Thanks for any information you may have. Dietitian comment: That's a good point. I will try to get more information from Lisa, the dietitian who submitted the recipe.