Paper-Wrapped Apple Pie - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch single crust pie
- 8 apple - peeled, cored and sliced
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup butter
Instructions
- Mix 1/2 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Mix this with apples and pour into pie shell. Sprinkle lemon juice over top.
- To Make the Top Crust: Mix 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup flour, then cut in butter. Sprinkle over pie.
- Take two 15 inch pieces of parchment paper and enclose pie; fold edges up 3 times. Place on a baking sheet.
- Bake at 425 degrees F (220 degrees C) for 1 hour. Remove from oven, split parchment open and cool pie on wire rack. DO NOT open parchment covering while baking!
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Lemon.
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). Lemons ca...
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