Slow Cooker Pumpkin Steel Cut Oats - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- cooking spray (such as Pam®)
- 6 cups water
- 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
- 1 1/2 cups steel-cut oats
- 1 cup brown sugar replacement (such as Splenda® Brown Sugar Blend)
- 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
Instructions
- Prepare the crock of your slow cooker with cooking spray.
- Stir water, pumpkin puree, oats, brown sugar replacement, cinnamon, and pumpkin pie spice together in the prepared slow cooker.
- Cook on Low for 6 hours. Stir before serving.
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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