Slow-Cooked Lamb with Sage and Pearl Barley - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 shoulder of young lamb
- 4 carrots
- 2 stalks of celery
- 4 red onions
- 4 splashes olive oil
- 3 squashed garlic cloves
- 12 sage leaves
- 8 peppercorns
- 1 1/4 cups red wine
- 1 1/4 cups chicken stock
- 3/4 cup of pearl barley
- 12 fresh almonds
- freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- Trim the fat from 1 shoulder of young lamb. Peel, wash, and thinly slice 4 carrots and 2 stalks of celery. Peel 4 red onions and cut into small wedges.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Barley.
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.
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