Easy Swedish Glögg Recipe | MyRecipes - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 2 cups water or orange juice
- 1 (3-inch) piece orange rind
- 1 (1-inch) piece fresh ginger, peeled and sliced
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 6 whole cloves
- 5 whole allspice
- 2 cardamom pods, bruised
- 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
- 1 (750-ml) bottle red wine, such as Burgundy
- 1/2 cup sugar
- Garnishes: blanched almonds, golden raisins
Instructions
- Combine first 9 ingredients in a pot over medium heat. Bring mixture to a simmer, being careful not to boil. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer for 15 minutes. Remove from heat, and stir in sugar. Stir until sugar dissolves. Strain mixture, and serve immediately, or gently reheat before serving. (If you prefer a stronger flavor, steep spices longer before straining.) Garnish, if desired.
- Note: For a nonalcoholic version, use water or orange juice, and substitute 3 cups Concord grape juice for the wine. Omit sugar, and follow glögg procedure.
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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