Baked Apple with Crisp Topping - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 2 apples (recommended: Fuji or McIntosh)
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1/4 cup strawberry jam, jelly or preserves
- 2 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons butter, cold and diced
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1/2 cup oats, uncooked
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Pinch salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Cut each apple in half along its equator. Using a melon baller, cut out each side of the core, creating a rounded hole. Rub exposed apple flesh with lemon juice. Place 1 tablespoon of jam into each hole. For the topping: in a small bowl mix together flour, butter, brown sugar, oats, cinnamon and salt. Press this mixture on the top of each apple, covering jam. Place in a baking dish filled with about a 1/4-inch of water. Bake until top is golden brown and apple is tender, about 35 to 40 minutes.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Lemon, 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). Lemons ca...
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