Pear and Apple Mini Fruit Crisps
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Difficulty:
advanced
Difficulty
Preparation:
35 min.
Preparation
Healthy, because
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These mini fruit crisps are packed with fiber from the apples and pears.
Serve these with vanilla ice cream or nonfat yogurt with a little honey.
Author of this recipe:
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Ingredients
for
4
- For the fruit filling
- ¼ cup superfine caster sugar
- 2 cooking Apple (peeled and cut into small cubes)
- 2 Pear (peeled and cut into small cubes)
- water
- 2 tsps ground cinnamon
- For the crumble
- ½ cup butter
- ¾ cup self-rising flour (sifted)
- 0.333 cup caster sugar
- ½ tsp salt
- 4 Tbsps porridge oats
- 1 Tbsp brown sugar
Preparation steps
1.
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease 4 individual baking dishes.
2.
For the fruit filling: put the sugar, apple and pear cubes into a pan. Add just enough water to just cover the mixture. Heat gently, stirring now and again until the sugar has dissolved, then turn up the heat and bring to a boil. Turn down the heat and simmer gently for 4-5 minutes, until the fruit has softened.
3.
For the crumble: put the butter, flour, sugar and salt into a mixing bowl and rub together with your fingertips until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Stir in the porridge oats until well combined.
4.
Sprinkle the fruit mixture with cinnamon and spoon into the pudding basins.
5.
Top with the crumble mixture and sprinkle with demerara sugar.
6.
Cook for about 10-15 minutes, until the crumble is golden brown.
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