Healthy Apple and Grape Crisp (NOT a Crumble!)

Very interesting indeed, there is in fact a difference between a crumble and a crisp!

A crisp is a dessert made with a crisp topping that contains oats, nuts, brown sugar, butter, cinnamon  and flour sprinkled over the fruit.  A crisp have a coarser texture compared to the crumble because of the nuts and oats used.

A crumble is made with flour, butter, sugar that is sprinkled over the fruit, basically the same ingredients as a pastry except for the liquid.

Either way both taste fantastic and you don’t have to stick to just apples to make this dessert.

I’ve used grapes with the apples, this created two kinds of sweetness in one pie, just lovely.

Ingredients

Serve’s 4

5 Apples (peeled and cubed)

a handful of  seedless grapes

10 ml lemon juice

30 ml honey

50 ml flour

250 ml oat bran

50 ml “lite” margarine

50 ml brown sugar

1 ml salt

5 ml cinnamon powder

Grease a  pie dish and pre heat your oven to 180 degrees.

Place the apples in a saucepan, add a few tablespoons of  water to the apples, add the lemon juice and cook the apples for +- 10 minutes until soft but still firm. You can add water spoon by spoon is it cooks dry. Strain, add the honey to the apples,  mix through and transfer to your pie dish.

Cut the grapes in half and add to the apples in the pie dish.

Rub together the flour, oat bran, brown sugar, salt, cinnamon and margarine and sprinkle the mixture over the fruit.

Bake until the crust is brown.

Serve with low-fat custard, low-fat reduced fat cream or low-fat ice cream.

Fruit in the greased pie dish

Ready for the oven!

Tips

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If you don’t cook the fruit cover your crisp with tin foil and bake for 30 minutes, remove foil and bake for 10 minutes or until the crisp is browned.

Try using these fruit next time; rhubarb, strawberry and blueberries, peaches, mango or plums.

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Bobotie Bites

Bobotie is a South African Dish consisting of spiced mince meat and dried fruit baked with an egg-based topping. It is also made with curry powder leaving it with destinct taste.

This is a healthier version and baked indivudiually, great for a late afternoon protein snack, kids luncboxes or as a party bite.

I’v made it specially for supper served with a fresh tomato and onion sambal, rice and beet salad. All left overs was used as protein snacks later in the week.

Makes 24 Bobotie bites

Each bobotie bite equals 1 protein

Ingredients

1 Medium onion finely chopped

10 ml dried mixed herbs

15 ml Curry powder

5 ml Turmeric

2.5 ml Salt

30 ml Oat bran

15 ml Worcestersauce

30 ml Chutney

50 g Dried Sultanas

3 Large eggs

500g Beef mince meat

310 ml Fat free or low fat milk

Extra pince of Turmeric

Preheat your oven to 200 degrees and spray or grease two muffin pans lightly with a non-stick spray or oil.

Mix the Onions, all spices, Oatbran, Worcestersauce, Chutneay, Sultanas  and 2 x eggs in a mixing bowl.

Mix the Mince meat in and add  +- a Tablespoon of the meat mixture in the muffin pans. 

Mix the milk and the remaining egg with a pinc of Turmeric and spoon the milk mixture over the mince mixture.

Optional - Add a bay leave on each of the bobotie bites.

Bake for +- 30 minutes until done. Remove from oven and let the bobotie bites set before removing from the pan.

Tips

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If you don’t like Sultanas replace it  with one peeled and finely grated apple.

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