Tropical Bananas Foster - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- Cooking spray
- 1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1/4 cup light coconut milk
- 1/4 cup dark rum
- 1 cup (1-inch) cubed fresh pineapple
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 4 ripe bananas, cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices
- 1 3/4 cups vanilla light ice cream
Instructions
- Coat a 3-quart electric slow cooker with cooking spray. Combine brown sugar and next 3 ingredients (through rum) in slow cooker. Cover and cook on LOW for 1 hour. Stir with a whisk until smooth.
- Add pineapple, cinnamon, and banana to sauce, stirring to coat. Cover and cook on LOW for 15 minutes. Serve immediately over ice cream.
- Quick tip: Fresh pineapple is a treat, but sometimes for the sake of convenience, the precut variety is worth reaching for. Either way, you can't go wrong.
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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