Marrakesh Vegetable Curry - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 sweet potato, peeled and cubed
- 1 medium eggplant, cubed
- 1 green bell pepper, chopped
- 1 red bell pepper, chopped
- 2 carrots, chopped
- 1 onion, chopped
- 6 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon ground turmeric
- 1 tablespoon curry powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3/4 tablespoon sea salt
- 3/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 (15 ounce) can garbanzo beans, drained
- 1/4 cup blanched almonds
- 1 zucchini, sliced
- 2 tablespoons raisins
- 1 cup orange juice
- 10 ounces spinach
Instructions
- In a large Dutch oven place sweet potato, eggplant, peppers, carrots, onion, and three tablespoons oil. Saute over medium heat for 5 minutes.
- In a medium saucepan place 3 tablespoons olive oil, garlic, turmeric, curry powder, cinnamon, salt and pepper and saute over medium heat for 3 minutes.
- Pour garlic and spice mixture into the Dutch oven with vegetables in it. Add the garbanzo beans, almonds, zucchini, raisins, and orange juice. Simmer 20 minutes, covered.
- Add spinach to pot and cook for 5 more minutes. Serve!
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Spinach.
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). Spinach i...
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