Coconut Chicken Stir Fry - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
0
Calories
0g
Protein
0g
Carbs
0g
Fat
Recipe by greystonecooks
Creamy coconut milk and chicken kicked up with a strong assortment of spices. Serve over rice or pasta. I also like to use this as a filling for wraps or pita bread.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 4 large skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 large onion, finely chopped
- 2 large carrots, thinly sliced
- 4 cloves garlic, diced
- 1 tablespoon grated ginger
- 2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 teaspoon honey
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon curry powder, or more to taste
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
- 1 (14 ounce) can coconut milk
Instructions
- Melt butter in large frying pan over medium heat.
- Cook and stir the cumin seeds in butter until fragrant, about 1 minute.
- Stir chicken into the skillet with cumin seeds, and cook and stir until chicken is no longer pink in the center and juices run clear, 5 to 8 minutes. Drain any excess juices, if any.
- Pour vegetable oil into skillet with chicken, and heat oil until sizzling.
- Mix in onion, carrots, garlic, ginger, red pepper flakes, honey, ground cumin, cinnamon, curry powder, salt, and black pepper to the pan; cook until onions are translucent and carrots done, 5 to 8 minutes.
- Stir in coconut milk and simmer until flavors have blended, about 10 minutes.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Chicken Breast, Honey.
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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