Beverly's Get Up & Go Breakfast Cookies - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
- 1 tablespoon orange zest
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 cup wheat and barley nugget cereal (e.g. Grape-Nuts™)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- In medium bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg, orange juice concentrate, and orange zest. Combine the flour and baking powder; mix into the fluffy mixture until blended. Stir in cereal. Drop by teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until edges are golden. Remove from cookie sheet for cooling.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Barley, Nuts.
Barley is about the best grain a woman with PCOS can eat. It is low in calories and has the lowest GI of all grains. Low-GI grains such as barley take much longer to digest and create a slow, steady rise in blood glucose and insulin levels. As mentioned before on Fertility Chef, low-GI foods reduce cravings. If possible, try and find hulled barley as it is the most nutrient dense of all types of barley. Nuts are a natural source of Inositol, a derivative of Vitamin B (which is often prescribed i...
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