Apple and Cream Cheese Pizza - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 package (8 oz) cream cheese, softened
- 1 tablespoon packed brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400 °F. Dust large rimmed cookie sheet with flour.
- In large bowl, beat cream cheese with whisk or electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Add remaining Sauce ingredients; beat until creamy and soft.
- Unroll pizza dough onto cookie sheet. Bake 5 minutes. Meanwhile, peel and core apples; cut into thin slices. Place slices in medium bowl. Add remaining Pizza ingredients; toss gently to coat.
- Spread cream cheese mixture evenly over partially baked crust. Arrange apple slices over cream cheese mixture, overlapping very slightly like a fan.
- Bake 10 minutes longer or until sides of crust are light golden brown. Cool 5 minutes. Cut and serve!
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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