Butternut Squash Shooters with Bacon from ALDI - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 3 3/4 c. Chef’s Cupboard Chicken Broth from ALDI
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1/2 onion, chopped
- 1 Small potato, peeled and chopped
- 1 Butternut squash, peeled, seeded, and chopped
- 6 slices (half a pack) of Specially Selected Center Cut Bacon from ALDI
- 3 tbsp. Baker’s Corner Granulated Sugar from ALDI
- 1/2 tsp. Stonemill Essentials Ground Cinnamon from ALDI
- 1/4 tsp. Stonemill Essentials Iodized Salt from ALDI
- 1/4 tsp. Stonemill Essentials Ginger from ALDI
Instructions
- In a stockpot, bring chicken broth to a boil. Add garlic, onion, potato, and butternut squash and boil until fork-tender, 15 minutes. Strain, reserving 1 1/2 cups stock, and transfer to a blender.
- Meanwhile, in a large skillet over medium heat, cook bacon. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate and let cool, then crumble.
- Puree vegetables, slowly adding reserved stock until soup reaches desired consistency. Add sugar, cinnamon, salt, and ginger and stir until combined.
- Pour soup in shot glasses and top each with crumbled bacon (or serve on the side).
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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