Indian Chicken Curry I - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 8 bone-in chicken breast halves, skinless
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 onions, peeled and quartered
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh ginger root
- 1 teaspoon crushed garlic
- 1 tablespoon hot (Madras) curry powder
- 1 (15 ounce) can tomato sauce
- 1 (10 ounce) can coconut milk
- 4 whole cloves
- 4 pods cardamom
- 1 cinnamon stick
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Rinse chicken and pat dry; season with salt and pepper to taste. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium high heat, then saute chicken until browned. Remove chicken from skillet and set aside.
- Saute onions in skillet until translucent; add ginger and garlic and saute until fragrant, then stir in curry powder.
- Return chicken to skillet and add tomato sauce, coconut milk, cloves, cardamom and cinnamon stick. Season with salt to taste and stir all together.
- Reduce heat to low and simmer until chicken is tender and cooked through (no longer pink inside), about 20 to 25 minutes.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Chicken Breast.
Cinnamon is one of the best ingredients that someone with insulin sensitivity can eat. Half a teaspoon of cinnamon per day has been shown to be very effective at normalizing blood sugar levels. Cinnamon contains hydroxychalcone, which is thought to enhance the effects of insulin. It has also been suggested that Cinnamon prevents post-meal blood sugar spikes by slowing the gastric emptying rate - meaning that food digests slowly. (Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11506060). Skinless...
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