Baked French Toast with Pecan Crumble - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 1-pound loaf challah, sliced 1" thick
- Unsalted butter, room temperature (for baking dish)
- 4 large eggs
- 4 large egg yolks
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 2 cups whole milk
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoons ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
Instructions
- Spread out bread on a rimmed baking sheet; let stand overnight.
- Butter a 13x9" baking dish. Cut bread so slices are similar in size. Arrange, overlapping, in rows in prepared dish.
- Whisk eggs, egg yolks, cream, milk, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt in a medium bowl. Pour over bread, pressing bread to help it soak up custard. Cover and chill at least 2 hours.
- DO AHEAD: Bread can be soaked 1 day ahead. Keep chilled.
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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