Mulled Madeira - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 4 cups Madeira
- 6 tablespoons honey
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 8 3-inch-long, 1/2-inch-wide orange peel strips (orange part only)
- 6 whole cloves
- 1 cinnamon stick, broken in half
- 1/2 cup Cointreau or other orange liqueur
Instructions
- Combine first 6 ingredients in heavy large saucepan. Bring almost to simmer over medium heat. Reduce heat to low and cook wine mixture 10 minutes to allow flavors to blend (do not simmer). Add Cointreau and stir until heated through. Ladle into heat-proof glasses or mugs, leaving orange peel and spices in pan. Serve punch warm.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Lemon, 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). Lemons ca...
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