Spirited Hot Apple Cider - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 orange
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 3 cinnamon sticks
- 10 whole allspice
- 10 whole cloves
- 6 cups apple cider
- 1/4 cup dark rum
- 1/2 cup applejack
- Additional cinnamon sticks (optional)
Instructions
- Using vegetable peeler, remove peel (orange part only) in strips from orange. Melt butter in heavy large saucepan over medium heat. Add peel, sugar, 3 cinnamon sticks, allspice and cloves; stir 1 minute. Add cider; bring to simmer. Reduce heat to low; simmer 15 minutes. Mix in rum and applejack. Strain into mugs. Garnish with additional cinnamon sticks, if desired.
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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