Sweet Potato Pie & Maple Praline Sauce Recipe - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- Pastry for single-crust pie (9 inches)
- 1-1/4 cups sugar, divided
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 4 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 cup mashed sweet potatoes
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon maple flavoring
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
Instructions
- Line a 9-in. deep-dish pie plate with pastry; trim and flute edges. In a small bowl, combine 1/4 cup sugar, pecans and cinnamon; sprinkle evenly into pastry shell. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine the eggs, sweet potatoes, buttermilk, butter, syrup, maple flavoring, cloves and remaining sugar. Pour over pecan layer.
- Bake at 350 ° for 60-70 minutes or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean. Cover edges with foil during the last 15 minutes to prevent overbrowning if necessary. Cool on a wire rack.
- For sauce, in a small heavy skillet, melt butter. Add pecans; cook over medium heat until toasted, about 4 minutes. Add the sugar, syrup and maple flavoring; cook and stir for 2-4 minutes or until sugar is dissolved. Remove from the heat; stir in sour cream. Serve with pie.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon.
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).
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