Quick Easy Chicken Barley Soup - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 2 quarts chicken broth
- 2 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, chopped
- 2 stalks celery, chopped
- 2 carrots, chopped
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2/3 cup barley
- 1/3 cup rice
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Bring chicken broth to a boil in a large pot. Stir chicken, celery, carrots, onion, barley, rice, salt, and pepper into broth. Reduce heat to medium-high and cook until chicken and rice are cooked through, about 20 minutes. Adjust salt and pepper to taste.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Barley, Chicken Breast.
Barley is about the best grain a woman with PCOS can eat. It is low in calories and has the lowest GI of all grains. Low-GI grains such as barley take much longer to digest and create a slow, steady rise in blood glucose and insulin levels. As mentioned before on Fertility Chef, low-GI foods reduce cravings. If possible, try and find hulled barley as it is the most nutrient dense of all types of barley. Skinless chicken breast, often heralded for its lean nutritional profile, is undeniably a pow...
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