PCOS and Jicama (Mexican Turnip): A Nutritious Addition to Your Diet
Discover how jicama, a low-glycemic root vegetable, can benefit women with PCOS. Learn about its nutritional value and delicious ways to incorporate it into your diet.
How to make this delicious Korean snack. Full recipe is on my website: http://www.maangchi.com/recipes/samgakkimbap Ingredients: (for 3-4 servings, or 8-9 samgak kimbap) Cooked rice (about 4 cups), vinegar, white sugar, salt, laver for samgak kimbap, a can of tuna,soy sauce, garlic, sesame oil, roasted sesame seeds, black ground pepper, kimchi, and hot pepper paste. Ok, let's start! Prepare rice: 1.Mix 1 tbs vinegar, 2 ts of white sugar, ¼ ts of salt in a small bowl until the mixture of liquid looks clear. 2.In a large bowl, put 4-5 cups of fresh made warm rice and pour the clear liquid into the rice and mix it and cool down. Make filling: Tuna filling 1.Open a can of tuna and squeeze out the water through a cheesecloth. 2.In a heated pan, put 1 ts vegetable oil. 3.Add 1 clove of minced garlic, the tuna, 2 ts of soy sauce, and 2 ts of brown sugar into the pan and stir it for a few minutes. 4.Turn the heat off and add 1 ts sesame oil, 1 ts roasted sesame seeds, and ¼ ts of black ground pepper. Kimchi filling 1.Chop ¼ cup kimchi and put it in a small bowl. 2.Add 1 ts of hot pepper paste, 1 ts of sesame oil, and 1 ts of roasted sesame seeds to the kimchi and mix it up. Put the rice and filling in the mold: 1.Fill the mold about 2/3 full with cooked rice. 2.Place your filling in the center. 3.Top up the mold with rice, put on the lid, and press it down. Wrap it up: 1.Take out a piece of kim from the package. Don't remove the plastic wrap, we need this! Look for the numbers on the sheet. The numbers side of the sheet goes down, and #1 should be pointing away from you. 2.Take the lid off your mold, and place it face down on your sheet. The tip of the triangle should be pointing away from you, towards #1. Let the rice packet gently slide out on to the sheet. 3.Fold the sheet over the rice, away from you and towards #1. Then fold up the sides. Keep them in place with the sticker that came with the kim Eat it: 1.When you're ready to eat it, look for #1 on the side of the packet. Pull that tab and the plastic will peel off. 2.Gently remove #2 and then #3, putting the kim back into place each time. 3.Take a bite. Crispy, isn't it?
This recipe includes superfoods such as:
Sesame seeds help with progesterone balance. Lignans found in in sesame seeds help to prevent excess estrogen production. Tuna is great for a high protein diet as it has 33 grams of protein within its housing, with no pesky carbohydrates to worry about. In addition to this, tuna contains B vitamins and vitamin D, both of which are vital to fighting back against PCOS. Besides beneficial bacteria, kimchi is also a great source of beta-carotene, calcium, iron and vitamins A, C, B1 and B2. Kimchi and is full of probiotics which balance our pH level and ward off yeast infections and UTIs.
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