Cranberry Apple Crumble
Cranberry apple almond crumble
Prep time: 15 minute
Cook time: 20-35 minute
Serves: 6 servings
Ingredients:
Filling ingredients:
3 large apples
4 oz of fresh cranberries
1 tsp of ceylon cinnamon
1/2 tsp of ground nutmeg
1 tsp of ginger powder
1/8 cup of tapioca starch
Optional: 1-2 tbsp of maple syrup (since cranberries can get a bit tart)
Topping
1 cup of chopped walnuts or almond slivers
3/4 cup of 1 to 1 flour (I use Bob’s Red Mill)
1 tbsp of maple syrup
2 tbsp of melted coconut oil
Cooking Tools:
Pie pan (~9”)
Food processor
Oven
Mixing bowl
Directions :
Preheat oven at 350F.
Add the apple and cranberry separately into the food processor and chop into 1/2-1/4 in pieces.
Mix the chopped apple and cranberry with spices and tapioca flour and spoon onto pie pan.
Separately, mix the topping ingredients together, then spoon onto the pie pan to cover the fruit filling.
Bake at 350F for 20-35 minutes (depending on your altitude and oven). The crumble should turno a golden color.
Let the crumble cool and serve!
Cooking Tip:
I tend to make 3 pies / crumbles at a time in order to use up the entire bag of fresh cranberries and older/damaged apples from my imperfect/rescued produce boxes.
This recipe is very flexible and will taste good whether you add the spices or not. You can also easily replace the almond topping with walnuts or pecans.
Stay healthy with Annie:
Cranberries are a wonderful fruit that protects your kidneys and lowers your risk of urinary tract infection. It also has antioxidant, antimicrobial, and anticarcinogen properties, potentially reducing inflammations and tumors. However, because of their tartness, they’re often processed, preserved, sweetened, and served with an extra dose of sugar.
I have wanted to figure out a way to eat them without adding lots of extra sugar. Since I previously experimented last fall with no-sugar added apple pies and apple crumbles, which came out quite sweet from the apples themselves, I decided to see if I could mix in cranberries to the recipe and see how it would turn out.
It worked! Another very low added sugar dessert (2 tbsp of maple syrup for the entire crumble) that I’m excited to share a fruit dessert recipe that’s relatively healthy when eaten in moderation.