Lunch: Apple Lattice Fruit Bake

Recipe by CookinginFL This warm apple dessert topped with flaky puff pastry strips invokes a feeling of home and tastes great with vanilla ice cream.

This recipe includes fertility superfoods such as:

Cinnamon, Apples

Health and fertility benefits of Apple Lattice Fruit Bake

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). Apples will improve your body's sensitivity to insulin (Reference: http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/27/1/281.full)

Ingredients

3/4 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup water
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
6 Granny Smith apples - peeled, cored and sliced
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup chopped dried mixed fruit
1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed
1 tablespoon white sugar
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
Stir together brown sugar, water, and flour in a large bowl until smooth. Add the apples, pecans, and dried fruit; toss in the brown sugar mixture until well coated. Pour into a 9x13 inch baking dish. Cut the puff pastry into ten 1-inch strips with a pizza cutter. Lay 5 of the strips over the apples lengthwise, and cut the remaining 5 strips in half. Place the 10 smaller strips over the apples widthwise to create the lattice. Stir together the white sugar and cinnamon, and sprinkle over the lattice.
Bake in preheated oven until the apple mixture is bubbling, and the lattice is golden brown, 40 to 45 minutes.

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