Apple Brown Betty
By: Susan Kingston, RHN – Montreal QC
Here’s a wonderful Thanksgiving dessert that’s also gluten-, grain-, dairy-, and guilt-free! Yummmmm!
Ingredients:
Filling
- 6-7 apples (or pears), peeled, cored, sliced
- 3 TBSP honey or maple syrup
- 1 tsp cinnamon
Topping
- 1/3 cup pecans
- 1 cup almond meal (ground raw almonds)
- 1 TBSP ground flax
- 3 TBSP honey or maple syrup
- 1 TBSP coconut oil or butter
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- Pinch of Himalayan Salt
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Peel, core, and slice apples
- In a bowl combine sliced apples, cinnamon, and honey; mix well.
- Place pecans in a nut grinder or food processor and grind fine (will be 1/3 cup after ground).
- In a bowl combine all topping ingredients and mix with a fork until crumbly
- Grease a 9×13 inch baking dish with butter or coconut oil, layer apples evenly in dish, pour crumble mixture evenly over fruit mix, and pour lemon juice overtop
- Bake until top is golden brown and fruit is hot and bubbly, 40-50 minutes