Chunky Applesauce Recipe | Myrecipes - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- Cooking spray
- 4 pounds Golden Delicious apples, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch slices
- 2 pounds McIntosh apples, cut into 1/2-inch slices
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 6 (3-inch) cinnamon sticks
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter (optional)
Instructions
- Coat a 5-quart electric slow cooker with cooking spray. Combine apples, next 4 ingredients (through juice), and butter, if desired, in slow cooker. Cover and cook on LOW for 6 hours. Stir until desired consistency. Serve warm or chilled.
- Ingredient Tip: For chunkier applesauce, do not mash the mixture after cooking.
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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