Slow-Cooker Blood Orange Fizzy Mulled Wine Recipe | MyRecipes - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
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Recipe by Tiffany Vickers Davis
The slow cooker offers great convenience here, keeping the stovetop open for meal prep. Pouring the soda into the hot wine right at the time of service brings the temperature down enough to drink immediately. Change out th
Ingredients
- 10 whole black peppercorns
- 10 whole cardamom pods
- 6 whole cloves
- 5 whole juniper berries
- 2 (3-inch) cinnamon sticks
- 2 (750-milliliter) bottles red wine (such as zinfandel)
- 1 whole star anise
- 1 navel orange, thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- 1 (25.4-ounce) bottle blood orange Italian soda (such as Whole Foods)
Instructions
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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