Spiced Fruit Compote - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 750-ml bottle Vin du Glacier wine or Essencia (orange Muscat wine)
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 cinnamon stick, broken in half
- 5 whole cloves
- 2 8-ounce firm but ripe pears, peeled, halved, cored, each half cut into 4 wedges
- 18 dried Calimyrna figs, quartered
- 3/4 cup dried apricots, halved
- 8 dried pear halves, each cut into 3 wedges
Instructions
- Stir first 5 ingredients in large saucepan over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Add remaining ingredients; simmer until fruit is tender, about 15 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer fruit to bowl. Boil syrup in pan until reduced to 1/2 cup, about 7 minutes. Pour over fruit. Cool. Cover; chill until cold, about 3 hours. (Can be made 3 days ahead. Keep chilled.)
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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