Slow-Cooker Oats with Brown Sugar and Pear Recipe | Myrecipes - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- Melted butter
- 2 1/2 cups diced firm pear (such a D'Anjou)
- 1 cup steel-cut oats
- 1/3 cup raisins
- 2 tablespoons packed light brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 1/2 cups 2% milk
- 1 1/2 cups boiling water
- Additional honey (optional)
- Chopped toasted walnuts
Instructions
- Lightly brush a 3 1/2-quart slow cooker with melted butter. Add pear, oats, raisins, brown sugar, 3 Tbsp. honey, 2 Tbsp. melted butter, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir in milk and boiling water. Cover and cook on low for 7 hours or until oats are tender. Serve drizzled with more honey if desired and topped with chopped toasted walnuts.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Honey, Nuts, Walnuts.
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). Honey, of...
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