How to make delicious apple crisp
The traditional autumn American dessert apple crisp with oatmeal has several popular names, but the essence of the process of preparing this dessert is the same - they prepare crisp in the oven. A fragrant apple dessert is similar to both a pie and a casserole made from a layer of sliced apples, oat crumbs, nuts and spices.
Food preparation
Many housewives, who decided to recreate the classic apple crisp for the first time, often confuse the recipe with cooking cobbler, crumble and Brown Betty. It's important to note that the recipe for apple crisp is similar to crumble. The difference with crisp is that the recipe uses whole oatmeal. Baking apple crisp with oatmeal is easy, the main thing is to prepare the ingredients.
For crumbly dough, prepare:
- Wheat flour;
- whole oatmeal;
- sugar (preferably brown);
- butter;
- nutmeg;
- ginger;
- corn starch;
- ground cinnamon;
- baking powder.
To keep the apples in the finished dessert at the same time juicy and crispy, it is advisable to cut them coarsely. If the slices are cut too finely, they will be baked and soft during cooking.
Preparing the fruit for the oatmeal apple flavored crisp consists of choosing the apples you like. You should also decide to cut off the peel from them or not - in both cases, the dessert turns out to be delicious. On average, one crisp needs about 6 cups of chopped apple slices. Prescription apple crisp can be supplemented with other fruits and berries: apricots, cherries, raspberries, blueberries.
With what and when to eat apple crisp
Serve the apple crisp with oatmeal hot or cold. But it's better to stick to the medium option and serve the dessert warm. In America and Canada, crisp is often ordered in cafes for breakfast or prepared for the arrival of guests.
This sweet dish can be prepared to treat guests and the family circle, because it takes no more than half an hour to prepare a dessert. Apple crisp can be served chilled slightly. It is recommended to supplement it with a scoop of ice cream. Also, the dish goes well with whipped cream, yogurt, peanut butter and chocolate syrup. Caloric content of crisp is 161 kcal per 100 grams.
Apple crisp recipes
Delicious pie is prepared in the USA, Canada, New Zealand, England and Australia. The name of the dessert means that it should crunch in the mouth - the dough and the apple filling itself.
The original version of the dish can be baked in just 20 minutes.
Apple Classic Crisp
The dessert can be baked in a traditional large form or in small baking cups. A tip for beginners is to make the crisp crisp, preferably with brown cane sugar instead of regular sugar.
Ingredients for the dough:
- 70 g wheat flour;
- 90 g brown sugar;
- 70 g oatmeal;
- 50 g chopped walnuts;
- 7 g salt;
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon;
- 50 g butter.
For filling:
- 5 apples;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of cornstarch;
- 3 tbsp. spoons of brown sugar;
- 1 tsp cinnamon;
- 10 g vanillin;
- lemon juice from one slice;
- vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.
Step-by-step cooking option:
- Before mixing the ingredients for the dough, turn on the oven and preheat it to 180 degrees. Baking dishes are greased with oil.
- Combine flour with ground cinnamon, salt, sugar, oatmeal and ground nuts. Pieces of butter are added to the dough.
- Mix the mixture, preferably not with a spoon, but with your hands. Stir thoroughly until the butter in the dough turns into small crumbs. You can refrigerate the dough before preparing the filling.
- Peel the apples, then cut into medium pieces. Sprinkle them with juice from one lemon wedge.
- A mixture of sugar, cornstarch, vanillin, cinnamon is added to the apple pieces.
- Apples are placed in the mold, and on top of them oatmeal dough. A form is placed in a preheated oven. Also, the temperature in the oven can be raised to 190-200 degrees. Dessert is baked from 20 to 30 minutes until golden brown.
- Ready-made apple crisp according to the recipe is cooled and served in portions. In addition, the dish is decorated with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.
For dessert, it is better to use sweet and sour hard apple varieties, for example Antonovka, Borovinka, Medoc, Granny Smith.
Apple crisp is a great dessert if you want to please your loved ones and guests with something tasty, and there is little time for cooking. Observing the cooking conditions and nuances when choosing products, you can cook crisp exactly like it is traditionally made in Western countries.