Curried Lentil-Tomato Soup - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 4 center-cut bacon slices
- 1 1/2 cups chopped sweet onion (1 onion)
- 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 3 cups fat-free, lower-sodium chicken broth
- 1 cup dried lentils
- 1/2 cup chopped carrot
- 1/2 cup chopped celery
- 2 teaspoons curry powder
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 (14.5-ounce) cans no-salt-added stewed tomatoes, undrained
- 1/2 cup half-and-half
- 2 tablespoons dry sherry
Instructions
- Cook bacon in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat until crisp. Remove bacon from pan; crumble. Add onion and garlic to drippings in pan; sauté 3 minutes. Transfer onion mixture to a 4-quart electric slow cooker. Stir in broth and next 7 ingredients (through tomatoes). Cover and cook on LOW for 8 hours.
- Stir in half-and-half and sherry. Ladle soup into bowls; sprinkle with crumbled bacon.
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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