Cardiologist recipe – Lower Your Cholesterol Apple Crisp

Richard Collins, MD
The Cooking Cardiologist^®

Lower Your Cholesterol Apple Crisp

Here is a great desert that will help to bring down your cholesterol with the added properties of the plant sterols. You can now have your dessert and still enjoy life without the guilt.
Ingredients:
5 all-purpose apples, peeled, cored and sliced
½ cup brown sugar
1T flour, regular or gluten free such as Cup4Cup available at William’s Sonoma
1t cinnamon
For the topping:
5 Corazonas Oatmeal Squares with Cranberry and Fax
½ cup flour, GF as an option, see above
¼ cup brown sugar
¼ t baking powder
¼ t baking soda
6T BENECOL® margarine with plant sterols, 6T equals approximately ½ cup melted product
Preheat oven to 350⁰F.  In a large bowl, combine the sliced apples, flour and cinnamon. Toss to coat. Place into a 9×13 inch casserole.
Prepare topping. In a small food processor, combine the 5 oatmeal squares. Pulse until coarse chopped. In a large bowl, add the sugar, flour, baking powder and baking soda. Add oatmeal squares. Add margarine, crumble with hands until size of peas.  Layer on top of apples.  Bake 40-45 until bubbly and browned.
Serves 12.
Nutrition Facts: Calories: 220, Total Fat: 7 g, Saturated Fat: 1.5, Trans Fat: 0 g, Cholesterol: 0 mg, Sodium: 90 mg, Carbohydrates: 38 g, Fiber: 4 g, Protein: 3 g
Each serving has 583 mg of plant stanols/sterols
Diabetic Exchanges: 2 ½ Starch, 1 Fat

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Randy Cupps Graduated from Western Colorado University in Gunnison, Colorado, in 1983 with a degree in Physical Education with an emphasis in Exercise Physiology. Randy started his medical career in 1980 as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) working on an ambulance and in an emergency room. He then joined South Denver Cardiology in 1986 when it was South Denver Cardiac Rehabilitation as an Exercise Physiologist conducting a wide variety of Graded Exercise Testing on a diverse patient population. Randy continues to keep his EMT current, and he is certified by the American College of Sports Medicine as a Clinical Exercise Physiologist. In 2012 Randy acquired the role of business development, marketing, and physician relations manager at SDCA.

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