How To Make Low Fat Shrimp Scampi With Chef B. Smith
Celebrity chef B. Smith is encouraging people with type 2 diabetes to recognize that small changes, including food choices, can have a positive effect on managing diabetes successfully through the Journey For Control campaign. As part of the campaign, B. Smith visited Joyce Stein, a Philadelphia resident with type 2 diabetes. Joyce’s husband also has type 2 diabetes and she found it challenging to make healthy food choices for her family with her busy schedule. Joyce signed up for a Healthy Menu Makeover to learn how to prepare healthy diabetes-friendly meals. To register for your own one-of-a-kind opportunity to have celebrity chef B. Smith visit your hometown to make over your chosen meal, visit www.JourneyForControl.com.
Step 1: Healthy Menu
I'm here in Philadelphia with Joyce Stein and we're going to talk about our healthy menu makeover that we're about to do.
Now when did you find out that you had diabetes?
November of 2006 was my diagnosis. It was very difficult to hear that. Even though I have a family history, I'm still in a bit of denial. One of the more difficult things is finding diabetes friendly food that actually tastes good. Yes. The recipe that you sent is Shrimp Scampi.
Well we are going to work on this recipe right now and when we finish you'll see that small changes are going to make a big difference in the recipe. So let's get started cooking.
Step 2: Preparations
So first, we're going to start with a little bit of margarine. Remember, you had quite a bit of oil. I'm going to add a little olive oil to this. And it's about two tablespoons of both so it's not an awful lot. Then we're going to put out shrimp in and I'm going to cook the shrimp for about a minute on each side. So that's looking pretty good.
Step 3: Stock
I'm going to put them back in the bowl. And then I'm going to add garlic. I'll add the garlic. Mmmm. Can you smell that? Fresh lemon juice. Without the seeds. A little fresh lemon juice. And that great shrimp stock.
You can use clam juice if you want to use clam juice but make sure that it's low sodium. That's they key here, low sodium. So I'll just put all of that in. Turn it up a bit more. I'll let that cook down just a little bit. Now I'm going to add a little bit of wine to this. And the wine is actualy going to cook off.
Step 4: Add Shrimps
I'm going to add the shrimp back.These are plum tomatoes that have been seeded so I'm going to add these in. It makes the color look great.
And then the herbs. Fresh basil and I'll save some for garnish. And then parsley. Now I did call for an eighth of a teaspoon of salt. An eighth. Very little. And just a small amount of pepper that's over here so I'll put that in.
Step 5: Pasta
So let's put our pasta in. And whole grain pasta is really healthy for you. So as I said before, you know it's small changes in recipes, in your diet, that make a big difference. And as you were asking me from the very beginning, what about the flavor? I mean you can almost taste it, can't you?
Step 6: Serve
What we have here is; we've got our protein in the shrimp, it's lean protein. We've got our grains in the pasta, whole grains in the pasta. And we've got fresh vegetables with salad. And we have an entire meal here that's very healthy and flavorful.
