Pumpkin Spoon Bread - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups whole milk
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 cup stone-ground yellow cornmeal
- 1 cup canned pure pumpkin purée
- 3 large eggs, separated
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives
- 1/2 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 °F. Bring milk, butter, and salt to a simmer in a medium saucepan. Reduce heat, gradually whisk in cornmeal, and simmer, stirring, until thickened, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat; whisk in pumpkin purée.
- Whisk egg yolks, chives, thyme, cinnamon, cayenne, ginger, and nutmeg in a large bowl. Whisk in cornmeal mixture.
- Using an electric mixer, beat egg whites in a medium bowl until soft peaks form. Whisk 1/4 of whites into batter, then gently fold in remaining whites. Scrape batter into a 9x5" loaf pan. Bake until spoon bread is set and begins to pull away from sides of pan, 30 –40 minutes. Let cool slightly before serving.
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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