Apple Pie Recipe | Myrecipes - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup vegetable shortening
- 4 to 5 tablespoons cold water
- 1/2 cup measures-like-sugar calorie-free sweetener
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 4 medium Granny Smith apples, peeled and sliced
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- Butter-flavored cooking spray
- 1/2 cup vanilla no-sugar-added ice cream (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 °.
- Combine flour and salt; cut in shortening with pastry blender until mixture is crumbly. Sprinkle water, 1 tablespoon at a time, over surface of mixture. Stir with a fork until dry ingredients are moistened.
- Shape dough into a ball. Roll into a 10-inch circle on a floured surface. Combine sweetener and next 3 ingredients; sprinkle over apple, and toss.
- Spoon mixture into a 9-inch pieplate; sprinkle with lemon juice. Place pastry over apple mixture; fold edges under, and crimp. Coat with cooking spray.
- Bake at 425 ° for 25 minutes. Serve warm. Top with ice cream, if desired (ice cream not included in analysis).
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Lemon, 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). Lemons ca...
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