Winter Warmer - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 bottle red wine
- 6 cloves
- 6 star anise
- 6 green cardamom pods
- 6 allspice pods
- 2 stick cinnamon
- 10 black peppercorns
- nutmeg
- 1/2 orange
- 1/2 lemon
- 3/4 c. sugar
- 2 oz. vodka
Instructions
- Combine all dry ingredients and wine in a pot over medium heat.
- Squeeze and toss in both the lemon and orange.
- When the mixture comes to a simmer remove from heat and let steep for another five minutes.
- Add the vodka. Strain and serve.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Lemon.
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). Lemons ca...
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