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Recipe tags: Bake, Bread, Vegetarian

Rice, pasta and breads

Lemon Berry Bread

Recipe submitted by DaVita dietitian Mindy from Indiana.

Yield:  1 loaf (10 slices)

Serving size:  1/10 of a loaf (one slice)

Ingredients

• nonstick cooking spray
• flour to coat loaf pan
• 1-1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/3 cup canola oil
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons lemon or almond extract
• 4 large egg whites
• 1/2 cup skim milk
• 1 cup fresh blueberries
• 2 tablespoons grated lemon rind

For lemon glaze:

• 1/2 cup sugar 
• 1/2 cup lemon juice

Preparation

1. Preheat oven to 350° F.  Coat a 9” x 5” x 3” loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray and dust with flour. 
2. In a large bowl, combine flour and baking powder.
3. In another bowl, mix oil, sugar, extract and egg whites.
4. Add flour mixture to oil and sugar mixture alternating with milk. Stir just until blended; do not over mix.
5. Fold in blueberries and lemon rind.
6. Pour batter into loaf pan and bake for 40 to 50 minutes or until toothpick once inserted comes out clean.
7. Prepare glaze while bread is baking. In a small saucepan, combine sugar and lemon juice. Heat until sugar is dissolved. 
8. After removing bread from the oven, immediately poke holes at 1” intervals into the top and pour lemon glaze over bread.

Nutrients per serving

• Calories: 229
• Protein: 3 g
• Carbohydrate: 36 g
• Fat: 8 g
• Cholesterol: 0 mg
• Sodium: 78 mg
• Potassium: 89 mg
• Phosphorus: 41 mg
• Calcium: 50 mg
• Fiber: 0.8 g

Renal Food Choices

• 1 starch
• 1 fruit, low potassium
• 1 fat
• 1/2 high calorie

Renal Diabetic Food Choices

(made with sugar substitute instead of sugar)

• 1 starch
• 1/2 fruit, low potassium
• 1 fat

Carbohydrate Choices

• 2-1/2  original recipe or 1 using  sugar substitute

Helpful hints

• People with diabetes can make one or more of the following changes:
  • Omit lemon glaze
  • Reduce portion to 1/2 slice
  • Substitute Splenda® sugar substitute for sugar. Nutrient content changes to 154 calories and 17 grams carbohydrate per slice; other nutrients remain the same.

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