Low-Sugar Apple Crisp Recipe: Sweet, Healthy & Comforting

Low-Sugar Apple Crisp Recipe: Sweet, Healthy & Comforting

First of all, I no be blogger. I be cook. So I no fit write those long grammar things. I just cook.

So.

Apple crisp. You know wetin be apple crisp abi? Na apple wey dem bake with crunchy thing on top Simple.

When I first start to make this thing, I dey burn am plenty. I no lie.

The apple part.

Go market I bought apple. Any apple wey you see even the small ones wey be say dem dey sell for roadside. But make sure dem sweet. Taste one before you buy. If e sour like lemon? Leave am. No use am.

How many? Ehn… depend on your plate. If e be small plate like cake tin? Four apple fit do. If e be big plate like the one wey dem dey use for party? Eight. Or ten. But here’s the trick. When you slice the apple, pile am for the plate. Make e be like mountain. Because when e cook, e go down. If you fill am flat, you go get half plate of crisp. I learn this the hard way.

Peel the apple Biko peel am I don’t hear story wey person nearly choken, So peel.

Slice am, no make am too thin. No make am too thick. Thin like? Like… you know plantain chip? Thicker than that. Abi… just make all of them same same so dem go cook together.

The topping part.

Rolled oats. Not the quick one. Quick oats na scam. E go turn to like… you know pap? That soft thing. We no want soft. We want crunch.

Nuts? If you get. If you no get, use groundnut. Groundnut sweet. Or just skip am.

Butter. Real butter. Not margarine. Margarine na lie. But if you no eat butter because of your body? Use coconut oil. But e no get same taste. I no lie.

Flour. Any flour. Even the garri? No, No use garri, Use flour, Small small.

The sugar matter.

This one dey pain me.

Low sugar crisp, How you want low sugar and e still sweet? Na magic?

But okay. This na wetin I do.

I no use stevia alone. Stevia when e hot? E go bitter like medicine. I try am once. For my auntie wey get diabetes. The crisp come out as e bitter. My auntie look me. I look her. She no talk. But her eye talk. Since that day? I no do again.

So now I mix. Half of maple syrup or honey. Half of monk fruit or stevia. The real sugar dey hide the fake sugar taste.

Or just use maple syrup alone. E still get sugar but na less pass the white sugar wey person dey use for regular crisp. So e fine.

How to mix everything.

Get big bowl. Put the slice apple inside. Add cinnamon. Shake am well. Cinnamon no get enemy. Add nutmeg small small, Nutmeg strong o. Small pinch. Add lemon juice. Half lemon, Squeeze am with your hand so seed no fall.

Add cornstarch. One spoon, I beg no forget this one, Without cornstarch? The apple go release water. You go get soup. Crisp go float like boat. Mess.

Add your sweetener. Just small. Apple sweet already.

Mix with your hand. Not spoon. Hand. Make sure every apple slice touch the spice.

The topping mixing.

Another bowl. Put oats, flour, nuts, salt small. Add cinnamon again. Why not.

Pour the melted butter. Pour your sweetener (the other half wey remain). Then use your hand again. Squeeze am. If e hold together like wet sand? Good. If e dey dusty? Add more butter. If e dey paste? Add more oats.

Assemble.

Pour apple for baking plate. Spread am. Then sprinkle topping for top. No press am o. Just sprinkle. Make e sit for top like blanket. If you press? E go sink inside. You go get no crunch.

Baking.

Oven heat to 350. Middle rack. Not top. I burn one crisp before for top rack. The topping turn black. The apple still raw. My friend say “e okay” but e no finish am.

Bake for like 35 to 45 minute. But no rely on time. Look am. The topping must be golden brown. Not white. Not black. And you go see bubble for edge. Apple juice bubbling. That means e don cook.

The waiting wey hard.

Bring am out. Leave am for counter. Ten minutes. I know you hungry. I know you want chop now. But if you chop now? The inside go run like water, The topping go fall apart. Ten minutes, Go clean your spoon. Go wash your hand. Go drink water.

To chop.

Warm. With ice cream if you get. With yogurt if you want pretend say you dey healthy. With nothing if you lazy. All sweet.

Leftover.

Keep for fridge. But when you want reheat? No use microwave. Microwave go kill the crunch. Use oven. 300 degrees. Ten minutes. Or chop am cold. Cold apple crisp for breakfast? I don do am. E no kill me.

My worst crisp story.

Na for church function. Big function. 50 people. I no peel the apple because I dey rush. I think say small skin no go hurt person. Ehn… one old mama chew apple skin E stick for her throat. She start to cough. Her daughter come. The daughter look  at me The look wey she give me? If look can kill, I for don die that day. The mama fine o. But me? I no ever skip peeling again.

So. Biko. Peel your apple. Use rolled oats. No press the topping. And if you use stevia alone? Good luck.