Fat Free, Apple-Cinnamon Crumble Recipe With Whole Foods
This apple-cinnamon crumble is aromatic, low calories and delicious!
Equipment
- Large mixing bowl
- Thick bottomed saucepan
- oven proof dish
- Wooden spoon
- Chopping knife
Ingredients
- 3 large Bramley cooking apples You can use other apples of your preference as long as you know they cook down nicely.
- 2.5 cups of rolled oats The chunkier the oats, the crunchier the topping.
- 10 Medjool dates Or, 15 regular dates. You can also use 1/2 cup of maple syrup (or to taste) instead of date paste.
- 2 tbsp cinnamon powder + 1 tsp
- 1.5 cups hot water
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 190C (375F).
- Pre make your date paste by soaking your dates (pitted) in enough hot water to cover for about 30 minutes. Then blend in a high speed blender until super smooth and thick (but still just pourable). You may need to add a touch more water to get your paste pourable and blendable. Be sure to blend until super smooth. This may take a full couple of minutes of blending with a few breaks to be sure your blender doesn't burn out.
- Peel and slice your cooking apples into 1/2 inch slices.
- Simmer on a low heat with half the water until soft. This should take no more than 10 minutes or so as cooking apples cook quick! Stir as you go so they don't stick. Add 1 tsp of your cinnamon, along with around half your date paste and cook for another minute or so. You may need to add more hot water to stop sticking. Be sure not to mash your apples up too much as you want texture in the finished crumble. If they start to break up too much then take off the heat. Now add the rest of your water, stir and pour into your oven proof dish.
- In the meantime, get your crumble ready by adding your oats to a mixing bowl along with the rest of your cinnamon. Mix well before pouring your date paste (or maple syrup) over the oats and mixing again to blend. You can use your fingers for this job too. Don't worry if the date paste does not mix in well and it forms clumps. This is what you want for great texture. Just be sure to try and mix the paste in quite evenly though.
- Now drop clumps of your crumble mix onto your apples until they are fully covered. Try and get the mix on evenly, but don't worry about the clumps.
- Place in your pre-heated oven and cook for 25 minutes or until golden and crispy on top.
- Serve with ice-cream, cream, custard or just eat alone as it's just as tasty.
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Notes
This apple crumble last up to 7 days in an air-tight container in the fridge