Roasted Butternut Squash - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp. butter
- 2 lb. fresh butternut squash chunks
- 1 1/2 tbsp. sugar
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400 ºF. You'll need a rimmed baking pan lined with nonstick foil.
- Put butter in pan. Place in oven until melted. Remove pan from oven and add remaining ingredients. Toss to coat and spread into an even layer.
- Roast 25 to 30 minutes, tossing once or twice, until squash is tender. Transfer to serving bowl. Preparing fresh butternut squash used to be a challenge. No more, now that peeled fresh butternut squash chunks are available in the produce section of the supermarket. Roasting on nonstick foil makes cleanup easy, too.
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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