Crustless Apple Pies - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 6 large baking apples, halved vertically and cored
- 12 tbsp. butter, melted
- 1/3 c. sugar, plus more for sprinkling
- 2 tbsp. ground cinnamon
- 2/3 c. old-fashioned rolled oats
- Vanilla ice cream, for serving
- Warm caramel, for drizzling
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Place each apple half flat side down and use a paring knife to create thin slices all the way across, making sure to stop slicing right before the bottom of the apple (so it stays together as one piece). Transfer apple halves to prepared baking sheet.
- Lightly brush apple tops with melted butter and sprinkle with sugar.
- Bake until apples are soft and caramelized, 20 to 25 minutes.
- Remove from oven. In a small bowl, combine remaining melted butter, sugar, cinnamon, and oats. Once cool enough to handle, spoon mixture inside apple slits.
- Return to oven and bake 10 minutes more.
- Top each with a scoop of ice cream and serve.
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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