Gluten Free Vegan Apple Crisp Recipe
Easy, Low Fat, Naturally Sweet, Dairy Free Apple Dessert Recipe
Gluten Free Vegan Apple Crisp Recipe: One of our favorite apple dessert recipes, low fat, naturally sweetened with a handful of raisins & a bit of agave or other liquid sweetener.
For an extra-special treat, this dairy-free apple dessert is delicious with coconut ice cream, or coconut whipped cream dessert topping.
This recipe calls for all purpose gf flour mix, and we just happen to have a recipe for that, but use any mixture of gf flours that you prefer.
Total Prep and Cook Time: 1 hour
8 Servings
Nutrition Data, 155g Serving: 207 cal, 7g fat, fat cal 61, 36g carbs, 77mg sodium, 5g fiber, 3g protein, 16g sugars, low cholesterol, estimated glycemic load 14
Ingredients:
- 1/3 cup raisins
- 6 medium sweet apples (e.g. gala or golden delicious)
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- 2 Tbsp water
- Optional: 40 drops liquid stevia
- Crumb topping
Crumb Topping Ingredients:
- 3/4 c quick oats or certified GF rolled oats
- 1/4 cup finely chopped walnuts
- 1/2 cup all purpose gf flour mix
- 2 Tbsp almond meal
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 Tbsp coconut oil OR sunflower seed oil
- 2 Tbsp agave syrup OR other liquid sweetener
- 2 Tbsp water
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
- Soak raisins in 1 cup boiling water for 5 minutes. Drain and set aside
- Combine all dry ingredients for the crumb topping
- Rub in the oil, liquid sweetener and water until the mixture is crumbly.
- Peel, core and slice apples thinly into a shallow 2 quart glass baking dish
- Mix lemon juice, water and optional stevia, if using, and sprinkle over apples
- Scatter the raisins over the apples, and shake dish a bit to mix
- Loosely cover the apples with the crumb topping - gaps and bumps are OK
- Cover the dish with aluminum foil or a glass or metal lid, and bake covered for 25 minutes
- Remove covering and bake uncovered for 15 - 20 minutes, until the topping is browned
- Loosely cover, and cool on a rack for 20 minutes before serving
Recipe Tips:
Although gluten free by nature, oatmeal may have a small amount of gluten from processing. If your gf tolerance is very low, we recommend using certified gluten free rolled oats, available from Bob's Red Mill and other sources online or in grocery stores.
All the gluten free flours we used came from Bob's Red Mill.
Sweet apples and raisins together create plenty of sweetness and the lemon juice punches up the flavor.
We recommend liquid stevia for more sweetness if desired. If you don't want to use stevia, sprinkle 2 Tbsp raw cane sugar over the apples. You can also use sugar substitute instead of agave nectar in the topping, but then you may need more oil to make the topping crumbly
The topping should resemble granola. If it doesn't seem crumbly enough, add a little more oil and sweetener until it does, a tsp at a time.
Covering the crisp with foil or a lid for the first part of baking keeps the moisture in so the apples cook soft and moist. Otherwise, in the absence of sugar, they tend to dry out a bit. Also the topping gets browned before the apples are cooked.
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