Holiday Mojito - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 oz. apple cider
- 1 c. Calvados Apple brandy
- 2 apples
- 6 cinnamon sticks
- 3 star anise
- 2 oz. apple cider calvados mixture
- 1 1/2 oz. 10 Cane Rum
- 5 mint leaves
- brown sugar
- 1 oz. simple sugar
- 1 fresh squeezed lime
- ice cubes
Instructions
- For the apple cider Calvados mixture: Heat over low flame for 30 minutes, strain and chill.
- Place mint leaves in bottom of a shaker, muddle. Add simple sugar, lime juice, rum, apple cider calvados. Fill with ice and shake. Rim Tom Collins glass with brown sugar. Garnish with a cinnamon stick and mint sprig.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Apples.
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). Apples wi...
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