Pumpkin Chipotle Pasta Sauce - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 3 tablespoons minced sweet onion
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- 2 chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, chopped
- 1/3 cup low-fat milk
- 1 teaspoon ground sage
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1 pinch ground cinnamon
- 1 pinch ground nutmeg
Instructions
- Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat, and cook and stir the onion and garlic until the onion is translucent, about 3 minutes. Whisk in the chicken broth, and bring to a boil; whisk in the pumpkin puree, chipotle peppers and their sauce, milk, sage, salt, coriander, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Allow sauce to come to a simmer, then lower heat to hold at a simmer until serving time.
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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