Sweet Apple Dumplings - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 (16.3-oz.) can Pillsbury™ Grands!™ Refrigerated Buttermilk Biscuits
- 8 teaspoons butter or margarine
- 4 small to medium Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and halved
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup water
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 °F. Lightly grease 13x9-inch glass baking dish.
- Flatten biscuits with rolling pin. Place 1 teaspoon butter in the core area of each apple half. Wrap each biscuit around 1 apple half. Place seam side down in greased baking dish. Combine sugar, water, melted butter and vanilla; pour over dumplings. Sprinkle cinnamon over dumplings.
- Bake uncovered at 350 °F. for 35 to 40 minutes or until golden brown and apples are tender.
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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