Brown Sugar-Glazed Sweet Potato Wedges - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 (3-inch) cinnamon stick
- 4 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled, cut in half crosswise, and cut into 1/2-inch wedges
- Cooking spray
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 °.
- Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add sugar, water, salt, nutmeg, ginger, and cinnamon; bring to a simmer. Cook 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Discard cinnamon stick. Combine sugar mixture and potato wedges in a large bowl; toss well to coat. Arrange potato mixture on a large jelly-roll pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 400 ° for 40 minutes or until tender, stirring after 20 minutes.
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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