Cranberry-Apple Streusel Pie - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 box Pillsbury™ refrigerated pie crusts, softened as directed on box
- 2 cans (21 oz each) apple pie filling
- 1 cup sweetened dried cranberries
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons butter or margarine
Instructions
- Heat oven to 450 °F. Make pie crust as directed on box for One-Crust Baked Shell using 9-inch glass pie pan; do not prick crust. Bake 9 to 11 minutes or until light golden brown. Reduce oven temperature to 400 °F.
- Meanwhile, in medium bowl, mix pie filling, cranberries and cinnamon.
- In small bowl, mix flour and brown sugar. With pastry blender or fork, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Spoon pie filling mixture into warm baked shell. Sprinkle crumb mixture evenly over filling.
- Bake 35 to 45 minutes or until topping is golden brown and filling bubbles. After 5 to 10 minutes of baking, cover crust edge with strips of foil to prevent excessive browning. Cool at least 30 minutes before serving.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Cranberries.
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). Researche...
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