Mulled Cranberry Wine Punch Recipe | MyRecipes - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
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Steeping fresh cranberries with juice, raisins, and cinnamon sticks starts things off for this mulled punch. But additions of red wine, lemon, almond flavors, and orange liqueur build an evener richer depth of taste. As warming holiday beverages go, this
Ingredients
- 1 cup fresh or frozen cranberries
- 1 bottle (48 oz., 6 cups) cranberry juice cocktail
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 4 to 6 cinnamon sticks (about 3 in.)
- 2 bottles (750 ml.) fruity dry red wine such as Gamay Beaujolais, or 6 cups apple juice and 2 to 4 tablespoons lemon juice, to taste
- 1/4 to 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- About 3/4 cup orange-flavor liqueur such as Cointreau or triple sec (optional)
Instructions
- Sort cranberries, discarding bruised and decayed fruit. Rinse berries and put in a 5- to 6-quart pan; add cranberry juice cocktail, raisins, and cinnamon sticks. Bring to a boil over high heat; cover and simmer on low heat to blend flavors, about 20 minutes.
- Add wine and 1/4 to 1/2 cup sugar, to taste. Heat until steaming, 5 to 8 minutes; do not boil.
- Add almond extract and orange liqueur; keep punch warm over lowest heat and ladle into cups or stemmed glasses.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Lemon, Cranberries.
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). Lemons ca...
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