Plum and Apricot Puff Pastry Tarts - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
0
Calories
0g
Protein
0g
Carbs
0g
Fat
Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.
Ingredients
- a 1-inch piece vanilla bean, split lengthwise
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- a pinch cinnamon
- a 1/2-pound frozen puff pastry sheet, thawed
- 2 plums, cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices
- 2 fresh apricots, cut into 1/4-inch thick slices
- 3 tablespoons apricot jam, melted, strained, and kept warm
- vanilla ice cream as an accompaniment if desired
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 °F.
- Scrape seeds from vanilla bean with a knife into a small bowl, discarding pod, and stir in sugar and cinnamon.
- On a lightly floured surface roll out pastry 1/8 inch thick and cut out two 6- by 5 1/2-inch rectangles. Arrange pastry on a baking sheet and fold edges in on all sides to form 1/2-inch borders, leaving corners unfolded. Form points at corners by twisting ends and pressing them gently onto baking sheet. On pastry arrange plum and apricot slices, overlapping them slightly, in rows and sprinkle with sugar mixture.
- Bake tarts in middle of oven until pastry is golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool tarts on a rack and brush with jam.
- Serve tarts warm with ice cream.
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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