Apple Oat Muffin - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 2 cups old-fashioned or quick-cooking oats
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 1 cup (1 to 2 medium) shredded Golden Delicious or Granny Smith apples
- 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Grease 12 standard muffin-pan cups. In large bowl, combine oats, flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and ground cinnamon.
- In medium bowl, with fork, beat buttermilk, oil, and egg until well blended; stir in shredded apples. Add apple mixture to flour mixture, and stir just until flour mixture is moistened (batter will be very thick and lumpy). Stir in chopped walnuts.
- Spoon batter into prepared muffin-pan cups. Bake 23 to 25 minutes or until muffins begin to brown and toothpick inserted in center of muffins comes out clean. Immediately remove muffins from pan. Serve warm, or cool on wire rack to serve later.
- NotesNutritional Information (per serving): Calories: 210; Total Fat: 7 g; Saturated Fat: 1 g; Cholesterol: 18 mg; Sodium: 320mg; Total Carbohydrate: 33 g; Dietary Fiber: 3 g; Protein: 5 g
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Apples, 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). Apples wi...
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