Apple Charlotte - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoons mace
- 5 Granny Smith apples, pared, cored and sliced thin
- 3 fresh lemons, zested
- 6 tablespoons butter, cold, plus 1 stick, melted
- 1 loaf French bread, shredded into crumbs, reserve 1 cup
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 ºF.
- In a bowl, add brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and mace. Mix together. Reserve 1 cup of mixture to be used for topping.
- In a separate bowl, mix together apples and lemon zest.
- Cover the bottom of Dutch oven pan with bread crumbs and bits of cold butter. Layer bottom with some sliced apples and brown sugar with a few pats of butter on top. Repeat with another layer until the pan is filled.
- For the top layer, combine reserved cup of breadcrumbs, melted butter and 1 cup reserved mixture. Sprinkle on top and top with more butter. Bake for 30 minutes until the golden brown.
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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