Apple Sangria Recipe | Myrecipes - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 3 1/2 cups chopped Honeycrisp apple (about 2 pounds)
- 1/2 cup apple schnapps
- 1/4 cup honey
- 4 whole cloves
- 2 (3-inch) cinnamon sticks
- 2 (1/4-inch) slices peeled fresh ginger
- 1 large navel orange, quartered
- 1 (750-milliliter) bottle fruity red wine (such as Beaujolais)
- 1/4 cup club soda, chilled, divided
- 4 thin horizontal slices cored Honeycrisp apple
Instructions
- Combine first 8 ingredients in a large bowl; stir well. Refrigerate 4 hours or until thoroughly chilled.
- Strain wine mixture through a sieve into a bowl; discard solids. Pour about 2/3 cup sangria over ice in each of 4 glasses; top each serving with 1 tablespoon club soda and 1 apple slice.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Honey.
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). Honey, of...
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