Chewy Fruit Bars - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- Basic Cookie Dough
- 3/4 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1 1/2 c. dark brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 c. walnuts
- 1 c. pitted dried dates
- 1 c. dried tart cherries
- 1/2 c. dried apricot halves
- 1/2 c. golden raisins
- Confectioners' sugar for dusting (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degree F. Line 15 1/2" by 10 1/2" jelly-roll pan with foil, extending foil 2 inches above pan at ends; grease foil.
- Prepare Basic Cookie Dough, but in step 1, decrease flour to 2 1/2 cups, increase baking soda to 3/4 teaspoon total, and add cinnamon to flour mixture. In step 2, substitute 1 1/2 cups packed dark brown sugar for granulated sugar and use a total of 2 eggs. Add walnuts, dates, cherries, apricots, and raisins to dough, stirring until blended (dough will be thick).
- With floured fingers, press dough evenly into prepared pan. Bake 25 to 28 minutes or until browned and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Remove from pan, using foil, and place on cutting board. With long, sharp knife, cut lengthwise into 4 strips, then cut each strip crosswise into 12 bars.
- Store cookies in tightly sealed container, putting sheets of waxed paper between layers, at room temperature up to 1 week or in freezer up to 3 months. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar before serving, if you like. Nutritional information is based on one cookie.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Nuts, Walnuts.
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). Nuts are...
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