Pear, Apple, and Quince Crostata - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 2 firm-ripe pears (1 lb total)
- 2 apples (preferably Fuji or Gala; 1 lb total)
- 1 quince (1/2 lb)
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped peeled fresh ginger
- 1 (3-inch) cinnamon stick
- 4 whole cloves
- 2 tablespoons apple cider
Instructions
- Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 375 °F.
- Peel, quarter, and core pears, apples, and quince, then cut into 1-inch chunks. Toss fruit with sugar, lemon juice, ginger, cinnamon stick, cloves, and 1 tablespoon apple cider in a bowl. Transfer to a large shallow baking pan (17 by 12 inches) and roast, stirring once or twice, until fruit is very soft and caramelized, 1 to 1 1/4 hours.
- Remove from oven and add remaining tablespoon apple cider, scraping up caramelized juices from bottom of baking pan. Discard cinnamon stick and cloves. Cool in pan on a rack, about 45 minutes.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Lemon, Apples.
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). Lemons ca...
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