Pine Nut and Fruit Ice Cream Sundaes - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 4 scoops vanilla ice cream
- 2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup firmly packed golden brown sugar
- 2 large plums, pitted, thinly sliced
- 1/8 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 2 ripe but firm bananas, peeled, thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup pine nuts, toasted
Instructions
- Put 1 scoop of ice cream into each of 4 deep bowls; place bowls in freezer. Melt butter in heavy medium skillet over low heat. Add sugar and stir until blended. Increase heat to medium. Add plums and cinnamon and sauté until plums begin to soften, about 3 minutes. Add bananas and sauté just until heated through, about 2 minutes. Spoon sauce over ice cream. Sprinkle with nuts.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Nuts.
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). Nuts are...
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