Sweet-Spiced Bread Sticks - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 2 pocketless pita or naan
- 4 tbsp. unsalted butter
- 1/4 c. sugar
- 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp. ground ginger
- .13 tsp. ground cloves
- 1 pinch salt
- chocolate sauce
- Raspberry or apricot jam
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. In a medium bowl, toss the pita strips with the butter. In a small bowl, mix the sugar with the cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and salt. Add the spiced sugar to the pita and toss to coat thoroughly.
- Spread the pita on the baking sheet and bake in the center of the oven for about 30 minutes, turning once halfway through, until the sugar is caramelized. Let the bread sticks cool slightly and serve with chocolate sauce or jam.
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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