Slow Cooker Cinnamon Apple Steel Cut Oats - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
0
Calories
0g
Protein
0g
Carbs
0g
Fat
Recipe by DebbieKat
Another yummy way to eat oatmeal. The house smells wonderful while this is cooking.
Ingredients
- cooking spray
- 8 cups water
- 23 ounces unsweetened applesauce
- 1 1/2 cups steel cut oats
- 2 Granny Smith apples - peeled, cored, and diced
- 1/4 cup ground cinnamon, or to taste
- 1/3 cup granular no-calorie sucralose sweetener (such as Splenda®) (optional)
Instructions
- Lightly spray a 5-quart or larger slow cooker crock with cooking spray.
- Combine water, applesauce, oats, diced apple, cinnamon, and sweetener in prepared slow cooker.
- Cook on Low for 6 hours.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, 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). Apples wi...
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