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The Diabetic-Friendly 'Jamie Deviled Egg' is the result of time spent researching and cooking up diabetic-friendly dishes to soon try for my niece, Jamie.
So right out of the gate, let me just say The Diabetic-Friendly 'Jamie Deviled Egg' is healthy, visually appealing, and DOWNRIGHT DELISH. For those of you who will squawk when I list among the ingredients 'cottage cheese,' don't screw your nose up quite so soon. This is known as the disappearing deviled egg in my house, and nobody eating them is the wiser where the cottage cheese is concerned.
The Diabetic-Friendly 'Jamie Deviled Egg' is the result of my efforts, a foodie-centric Aunt to a sweet niece with juvenile diabetes, to find foods that she can eat without worry. There are a ton of diabetic-friendly recipes out there. I am sure there are many for some version or another of a deviled egg, too. However, none did I find that were as gourmet as this which incorporates fresh herbs and a lovely white wine vinegar. Oh, and it's fantastic if you are counting calories, too.....
Quick and easy is what it’s all about when you have kids. Imagine though a child who suffers with diabetes. I know for my brother and his family, the learning curve was sudden, sharp, and expensive. All the while both doctors and parents hover over the child ensuring the sugar count is where it should be. Food QUICKLY becomes both the enemy and the anecdote.
Diabetes just sucks...
After a brief visit to Charleston a year or two ago to stay with my parents, both my nieces were heavy on my heart. In the case of Jamie, no matter what my Mom cooked, there was always inevitably much she could not have. I did not blame my Mom, as she has no experience with diabetic cooking and virtually zero recipes that moderate sugar in her repertoire. Eating out at a restaurant was an even bigger challenge.
For my older niece Dani, and as the protector, her anxiety came from fear that she would allow her sister to eat something she should not. That was a lot of self-imposed responsibility for a little kid and I hated it for her. And then there was the insulin pump…it was a lot. You just want to scream for her and have her be well but then it doesn’t work like that, does it? It immediately started me thinking about how I could lighten the load in terms of that enemy and anecdote...
In my June 2019 post, The Argument For Herbs, I highlight what to grow in a kitchen garden. Imparting SO MUCH FLAVOR, it really is difficult to argue against fresh herbs in the foods we prepare and eat every day.
Micro chives and parsley from my kitchen garden are used to flavor these eggs.
Before they left for home, I treated my family to a homemade grilled feast at my house. On the menu was everything all of us could eat, Jamie included. Grilled Sriracha prawns and chicken with peaches and champagne. A crunchy fennel and citrus salad, and Smoky Cowboy Red Potatoes. I nailed the flavor profile scale the same way in which a pianist would perform a glissando over the keys. We even ate bread, something my niece seemed ecstatic about at the time.
So, I realize this is ONLY a deviled egg. It is however, one recipe among about 40+ recipes I have developed for my niece for when they visit next. The recipes are not special, rather adapted. They are as much for my Mom as they are for Jamie. I never want my Mom worried about how to feed her. Both my happiness and satisfaction will come when I am able to see her once again fill her plate. Fear of food is unwelcome at our dinner table.
Ingredients
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Ingredients for The Diabetic-Friendly 'Jamie Deviled Egg'
- 12 large eggs, hard boiled and sliced lengthwise, half the yolks reserved the remaining yolks may be saved for another use or discarded
- 1/2 cup cottage cheese
- 4 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley, chives or dill
- 1 teaspoon white wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric
- 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- additional minced chives for garnish
- pimentos for garnish
Instructions
The Method
Read here on how to boil perfect hardboiled eggs every time.
- Have ready an egg plate of flight board on which you will display/serve from.
- If using a piping bag, fit with an .21 open star tip. If piping without a tip, prepare a small plastic baggie.
- Transfer the reserved yolks to a fine mesh sieve set overtop a medium bowl.
- Using a rubber spatula, press the yolks and the cottage cheese through the fine mesh sieve into the bowl. Repeat.
- Stir in mayonnaise, minced herb(s), 1 tablespoon of warm water, the vinegar, mustard, turmeric, coriander, salt, and pepper. Mix until well combined and very smooth.
- Pipe or spoon into the whites and arrange on the prepared dish or flight board.
- Garnish with additional minced chives and pimento.
Egg whites tend to get all the credit when it comes to egg protein, but they're actually not the only source of protein in an egg. Yolks also contain a significant amount of protein in an egg. In short: if you want to reap all the protein benefits of one egg, you'll need to consume the entire egg, both the yolk and white. Eating just 1 egg white would mean you're only consuming 4 grams of protein instead of the 7 grams of protein from a whole extra-large egg.
Jean, you are absolutely correct! I think of the egg as the greatest example of a perfect protein. While I am not an expert on the science as it pertains to diabetes, I do know that for this recipe, I have made the eggs using the 'entire of the yolks,' and also the way in which I have specified herein. Using the entire of the yolks changed the computers nutritional counts. If somebody were not preparing these for caloric or medical reasons, I agree with you in that using all of the yolks is not only optimal, but gives you additional filling, and is more beneficial in that you are consuming the added proteins. For our purposes and on this day, my 'adjustment' was necessary to be inclusive to the two diabetics we were cooking for in combination with the other foods on the table. As an aside, and because I enjoyed these eggs so much more than my usual way of preparation, I have now taken to preparing these all of the time. For me, I use half of the yolks and use the remainder to crumble atop salads. They are INCREDIBLY tasty and I have no idea why I didn't try experimenting with these ingredients sooner. Thank you for taking the time to make mention of this. Readers will definitely benefit!