Simple Flourless Apple Crisp - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 4 apples - peeled, cored, and sliced
- 2 cups oats
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Arrange apple slices in 9-inch circular glass pie plate.
- Stir oats, brown sugar, and ground cinnamon together in a bowl.
- Microwave butter in short 5-second increments until melted, about 20 seconds. Stir honey, melted butter, and oil into oat mixture; crumble over apples.
- Bake in preheated oven until golden brown, about 35 minutes. Cool on a wire cooling rack, about 45 minutes.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Honey, 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). Honey, of...
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