Clean Breakfast Cookies - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
0
Calories
0g
Protein
0g
Carbs
0g
Fat
Recipe by Sadie Melgoza
In an effort to find clean, healthy treats, I fell upon a few recipes about a year ago that inspired me. So I started playing around with ingredients and tweaking it each time. I finally produced something that my kids and husband
Ingredients
- cooking spray
- 2 cups rolled oats
- 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
- 1/4 cup flax seed meal
- 2 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup honey
- 2 egg whites
- 4 teaspoons almond butter
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 ounces semisweet chocolate chips (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Spray 2 baking sheets with cooking spray.
- Whisk oats, pastry flour, flax meal, cinnamon, salt, and baking soda together in a large bowl. Stir honey, egg whites, almond butter, and vanilla extract into oats mixture until dough is well-blended; mix in chocolate chips. Scoop dough into 36 balls and place on prepared baking sheets.
- Bake in the preheated oven until lightly golden and set, 8 to 10 minutes. Cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes, lightly loosen each cookie from the baking sheet, and continue cooling on the baking sheets for another 10 minutes.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Honey.
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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