Fruit Salsa with Cinnamon Chips Recipe | MyRecipes - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 2 kiwis, peeled and diced
- 2 Golden Delicious apples, cored, peeled and diced
- 1/2 pound raspberries
- 1 16-oz. pkg. strawberries, hulled and diced
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar, divided
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar, packed
- 3 tablespoons strawberry preserves
- 1 to 2 tablespoons cinnamon
- 10 (10-inch) flour tortillas, sliced into wedges
- 1 butter-flavored non-stick vegetable spray
Instructions
- Combine all fruit in a large bowl; mix in 2 tablespoons sugar, brown sugar and strawberry preserves. Cover and chill at least 15 minutes.
- Mix together remaining one cup sugar and cinnamon. Arrange tortilla wedges in a single layer on an ungreased baking sheet; coat chips with butter-flavored vegetable spray. Sprinkle with desired amount of cinnamon-sugar.
- Bake at 350 ° for 8 to 10 minutes. Repeat with remaining tortilla wedges; cool 15 minutes. Serve chips with chilled fruit mixture.
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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