Kate's Favorite Sweet Potato Casserole - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
0
Calories
0g
Protein
0g
Carbs
0g
Fat
Recipe by Kate Lewis
Sweet potato casserole is basically a dessert disguised as a main, which is genius.
Ingredients
- 1 to 1/2 sweet potato per person
- 1 to 1/2 yam per person
- Dash of orange juice
- Dash of maple syrup
- Dash of brown sugar
- Dash of buttermilk (optional)
- Cinnamon, to taste
- Dash of Grand Marnier
- Pats of butter (optional)
- Mini marshmallows, for layering
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Mix yams and sweet potatoes. Bake on tinfoil for 30 to 45 minutes until very soft.
- When cool, peel skin and mash in a large bowl. To make fluffier, add orange juice, maple syrup, brown sugar. Alternately, add buttermilk and brown sugar. Add cinnamon and Grand Marnier to taste.
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Pack potatoes in baking pan and top with butter pats, if desired. Bake for 30 minutes.
- Remove from oven and cover with single layer of marshmallows. Return to oven for 15 minutes or until marshmallows puff and brown.
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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