Apple Breakfast Crisp

May 25, 2015

This recipe is me trying to heave myself out of roughly other breakfast rut. Our vege boxes come upwardly alongside a lot of apples at this fourth dimension of year, roughly of them mealy, as well as I only knew that at that spot was a breakfast crumble out at that spot for them. I trawled my cookbooks but came upwardly short. Isa, Heidi as well as Deb had muffins as well as waffles as well as eggs 'til Tuesday, but zilch that'd instruct apples into my workday breakfast.

Once I striking google it turned out that Deb Perelman did genuinely accept precisely what I needed, an my ol' fruit crumble manifesto, though it taught me a pair of of import tricks. First, y'all tin melt the butter instead of blending it mutual frigidness into the crumble. Second, it's worth baking apples good beyond my habitual twenty minutes to convey them to that collapsing, apple tree pie stage. 

These aren't startlingly innovative tricks, but I appreciated them only the same. I've been enjoying my buttery collapsed apples for days alongside a pair heaping spoonfuls of yoghurt as well as fifty-fifty plotting time to come batches. Different flour! Skip the sugar! Other fruit as well as nuts! And what most vegetable oil, eliminating the bespeak for melting entirely? But ever lots of oats, lots of baking as well as a smidge of cornflour.

Apple breakfast crisp
(slightly adapted from a recipe on smitten kitchen)

200g mixed fruit (I had v apples as well as two pears)
two tablespoons lemon juice
three tablespoons caster sugar
two tablespoons cornflour
i teaspoon cinnamon
pinch of common salt
110g butter
1/4 loving cup barley malt syrup
1/2 loving cup flour
two cups rolled oats
1/2 loving cup raw cashews, roughly chopped
1/2 loving cup shredded coconut

Preheat an oven to 180°C.

Peel the fruit, withdraw whatsoever cores as well as chop the flesh into bite-size pieces, placing the fruit inwards a medium-large baking dish. Stir through the lemon juice equally y'all instruct to foreclose the fruit from browning. Sprinkle over the caster sugar, cornflour, cinnamon as well as salt, as well as stir it through to evenly coat the fruit pieces.

In a medium-large saucepan laid upwardly over low-medium heat, melt the butter as well as the barley malt syrup together. Turn of the heat, as well as stir inwards the flour, rolled oats, cashews as well as coconut. Pour this granola mix evenly over the apples inwards the baking tray. Bake it all for 45-55 minutes, until the apples are softened as well as bubbly. Keep an oculus on it equally it bakes, as well as comprehend the dish if the elevation gets equally good brown.