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Recipe tags: Chicken, Filipino, One dish meal, Potluck, Shrimp
Rice, pasta and breads
Palabok

Recipe created by DaVita patient, Bonifacia, and submitted by DaVita renal dietitian Jennifer H. from California.
Portions: 15
Serving size: 1 cup
Ingredients
- one 12-ounce pack of rice sticks (Asian rice noodles)
- 2 tablespoons garlic, minced
- 1 cup onion, chopped
- 1 tablespoon spring onion
- 3 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 pound ground chicken or turkey
- 2 cups tofu, cut into small cubes
- 1-1/2 cups shrimp, boiled and peeled
- 3 cups water
- 2 packs of palabok mix (shrimp gravy mix)
- 1/2 cup chicharon, crushed ((pork rinds)
- 5 boiled eggs
- 1 lemon
Preparation
- Boil rice sticks until soft, set aside.
- In a wok, sauté garlic and onion with oil; add ground chicken, tofu and shrimp.
- Dissolve palabok mix in water and bring to a boil; stir until thick.
- Mix together rice sticks, meat and tofu mixture and palabok mix in a large bowl with 1/2-cup chicharon.
- Thinly slice eggs and lemons.
- To serve place palabok in serving dish and garnish with the egg and lemon slices on top.
Nutrients per serving
- Calories: 305
- Protein: 17 g
- Carbohydrate: 39 g
- Fat: 9 g
- Cholesterol: 135 mg
- Sodium: 536 mg
- Potassium: 243 mg
- Phosphorus: 180 mg
- Calcium: 80 mg
- Fiber: 0.7 g
Renal and Renal Diabetic Food Choices
- 2 meat
- 2- 1/2starch
Carbohydrate Choices
- 2-1/2
Helpful Hints
- Ingredient definitions:
- Rice sticks are noodles made from rice flour. Look for this product in an Asian market or substitute vermicelli.
- Palabok mix is a dried shrimp gravy mix. Reduce the amount of palabok mix to reduce the sodium content.
- Chicharones are fried pork rinds.
- All of the above items are high in sodium. Look for the lowest sodium brands. Due to the high sodium content of this recipe, limit portion to 1 cup and limit sodium intake from foods at other meals.
- Reduce the amount of palabok mix to reduce the sodium content if desired
- Use fewer eggs to reduce cholesterol and fat content.
What's everyone saying?
1 reviews | Avg. User Rating:Taste delicious and acceptable to me. the mix of egg white blended with the strawberry reduce the obvious taste of the protein powder. It is refreshing and good with our florida climate.
Reviewed: May. 15, 2008, 6:51 AM - Inappropriate review?

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