Moroccan-Style Chicken and Root Vegetable Stew - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 12 ounces skinless boneless chicken breast halves, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 1/2 cups chopped onion
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon curry powder
- 1 tablespoon ground cumin
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 2 cups 1/2-inch pieces peeled red-skinned sweet potatoes (yams)
- 2 cups 1/2-inch pieces peeled parsnips
- 2 cups 1/2-inch pieces peeled turnips
- 1 cup 1/2-inch pieces peeled rutabaga
- 2 cups canned low-salt chicken broth
- 1/4 cup dried currants or raisins
- 1 cup drained canned diced tomatoes
- Chopped fresh cilantro
Instructions
- Heat oil in heavy large pot over medium-high heat. Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper. Add chicken to pot and sauté until light golden but not cooked through, about 1 minute. Transfer chicken to bowl.
- Add onion to pot and sauté until golden, about 4 minutes. Add garlic and stir 1 minute. Add curry powder, cumin and cinnamon stick and stir 30 seconds. Add sweet potatoes, parsnips, turnips, rutabaga, broth and currants. Cover and simmer until vegetables are tender, about 20 minutes. Add tomatoes and chicken with any accumulated juices to pot. Simmer until chicken is cooked through and flavors blend, about 5 minutes longer. Sprinkle with cilantro and serve.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Chicken Breast.
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). Skinless...
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