Chile Relleño -- Kidney Diet / Renal Diet

This recipe is in a series of indeterminate length on kidney-healthy foods.
The goal is to cook food that takes good, and meets the following nutritional guidelines:

• <2000mg / day potassium 
• <1500mg / day sodium 
• Low to moderate protein content 

Along with each recipe, I'll post the nutrition breakdown based on the USDA nutrient database.

Chile Relleño

This is the sort of thing I would never have put on my blog before I needed to start slavishly recording nutritional content, in that it is just a straight copy of another website's recipe with very few changes.

http://www.chow.com/recipes/29565-chiles-rellenos

Ingredients:

• 6 poblano chilies (all peppers are low in potassium)
• 5oz shredded cheese (we used part-skim mozzarella cause we had some)
• 3 eggs, separated
• Cholula or another hot sauce for condiment (nutritional value not shown, as it varies wildly from sauces.  None have much potassium, but sodium can be high)

Steps:

1. Fire roast the chilies. I saw an Alton Brown comment about using a metal in-pot basket steamer placed directly over a flame, and it worked great.  Basically you want them over a flame until they looked blackened in spots, then you place them in a pot with a lid and let them steam for 15min.
2. Slice open and de-seed the chilies, using a T shaped incision, that doesn't cut all the way through
3. Stuff with cheese and close with a toothpick
4. Heat enough oil in your pan to just cover the bottom
5. Whip the egg whites until stiff, then fold in the mixed yolks
6. Dredge eat chile through the egg mixture then plop it in the pan.
7. Turn then as each side becomes a golden brown

I liked it a lot, though I am still getting used to the low-sodium flavors of things.  No picture sadly as it was late and I was hungry.  As a note:  Work quickly once you fodl the yolks into the whites as they will start to deteriorate.

I think i will use a modified version of this to make low-sodium homemade jalapeno poppers.

Nutrition

This serves two, three peppers each.  It would go well with tortillas.

Nutrient	Unit	3 large eggs	6 poblano peppers	5oz cheese	4tbspn canola oil	Total	Serving
Energy	kcal	214	76	360	495	1145	572.5
Protein	g	18.84	4 g	34.39	0	53.23	26.615
Phosphorus, P	mg	297	78	656	0	1031	515.5
Potassium, K	mg	207	672 mg	119	0	326	163
Sodium, Na	mg	213	12 mg	877	0	1090	545