Spiced Poached Pears Recipe | Myrecipes - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 6 firm ripe Anjou pears (2 3/4 pounds), peeled
- 1 (500-milliliter) bottle Vino Santo or other sweet dessert wine
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup fresh orange juice
- 1 (3-inch) vanilla bean, split lengthwise
- 1/4 teaspoon juniper berries
- 1 (3-inch) cinnamon stick
- 6 tablespoons crème fraîche (optional)
- Ground cinnamon (optional)
Instructions
- Remove cores from blossom ends of pears, leaving stem end intact. If necessary, cut about 1/4 inch from base of each pear so it sits flat. Place wine, sugar, and orange juice in an oval 5-quart electric slow cooker; stir until sugar dissolves. Scrape seeds from vanilla bean; stir seeds and bean into wine mixture. Add juniper berries and cinnamon stick. Set pears in wine mixture. Cover and cook on HIGH for 3 hours or until pears are tender.
- Remove pears from cooking liquid. Cut pears in half. Place pear halves in dessert dishes.
- Pour cooking liquid into a sieve over a medium saucepan; discard solids. Bring to a boil; boil 20 minutes or until reduced to 1 cup. Drizzle sauce evenly over pears. Top with crème fraîche and sprinkle with cinnamon, if desired.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon.
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).
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