Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
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Recipe by Vera Kaltinick
These organic cookies are filled with good-for-you ingredients — walnuts, oats, whole-wheat flour — and have no refined sugars.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 stick organic sweet butter
- 1 1/4 c. organic evaporated cane juice crystals
- 1 tsp. organic molasses
- 3 tbsp. organic barley syrup
- 3/4 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. kosher salt
- 2 tsp. organic ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp. organic ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp. organic ground nutmeg
- 1 tbsp. organic cider vinegar
- 1 tbsp. organic vanilla extract
- 1 large organic free range egg
- 1 1/3 c. organic old-fashioned rolled oats
- 1 1/4 c. organic whole-wheat flour
- 1 1/2 c. organic mixed dried fruit
- 1 c. organic walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Lightly grease two baking sheets or line with parchment paper.
- Cream the butter, sugar, barley syrup, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, vinegar, and vanilla. Beat in the egg. Add the oats, flour, dried fruits, and nuts. Stir to combine.
- Drop the cookies by the tablespoon onto the baking sheet and shape them into rounds.
- Bake the cookies for about 14 minutes, reversing the pans halfway through to ensure even cooking. They are done when the cookies begin to brown on the edges and the center is still very soft
- Transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Barley, Cinnamon, Nuts, Walnuts.
Barley is about the best grain a woman with PCOS can eat. It is low in calories and has the lowest GI of all grains. Low-GI grains such as barley take much longer to digest and create a slow, steady rise in blood glucose and insulin levels. As mentioned before on Fertility Chef, low-GI foods reduce cravings. If possible, try and find hulled barley as it is the most nutrient dense of all types of barley. Cinnamon is one of the best ingredients that someone with insulin sensitivity can eat. Half a...
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