Recipe: Delicious Oats-Apple Crumble

Oats-Apple Crumble. Sliced fresh apples tossed with cinnamon bake under a topping with oats, flour, brown sugar, and butter in this simple fall dessert idea. For the crumble, mix all of the ingredients in a bowl. Pour the crumble on top of the layer of apples.

The traditional apple crumble is made with flour, butter, and delicious British apples. However, to make a more luxurious version, add oats, dried fruits, and some nuts into the crumble mix. This will result in a fruity base and crunchy topping. You can have Oats-Apple Crumble using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Oats-Apple Crumble

1. You need of For filling:4 large Golden Delicious apples (about 3 pounds).
2. You need of sugar.
3. Prepare of lemon, juiced.
4. It's of all-purpose flour.
5. You need of ground cinnamon.
6. It's of For Topping: 1 cup all-purpose flour.
7. You need of walnuts or pecans, roughly chopped.
8. Prepare of rolled oats.
9. You need of packed dark brown sugar.
10. You need of ground cinnamon.
11. Prepare of fine salt.
12. You need of cold butter, cut into small pieces.
13. It's of Vanilla ice cream, for serving, optional.

Homemade apple crumble is a humble dessert made with simple ingredients - oats, flour, brown sugar, salt, cinnamon, butter and apples. All of the ingredients used in this fruit crumble were traditionally found in Grandma's pantry, and they are in ours as well which makes it an easy recipe to whip up for last minute guests. The fresher the apple, the more juice to produce that yummy liqueur that collects in the bottom of the pan and soaks into the crumble topping. Look for "new crop" signs in your grocery store.

Oats-Apple Crumble instructions

1. Position an oven rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F..
2. Peel, core, and slice apples into 1/4-inch slices..
3. Place apples in a large mixing bowl and toss with sugar, lemon juice, flour, and cinnamon..
4. Pour into a lightly greased 9 by 13-inch baking dish, and spread out into an even layer..
5. Set aside while we work on our topping.
6. In another large bowl, mix together the nuts, flour, oats, sugar, cinnamon, and salt for the topping.
7. Using a pastry cutter or your fingers, gently work in the cold butter until pea-sized lumps are formed..
8. Top apples evenly with mixture and bake until apples are bubbly and topping is golden brown, about 45 minutes, rotating once halfway through cooking..
9. Serve warm or at room temperature with vanilla ice cream..

Use an apple slicer for easy cutting. Do not substitute coconut flour (it makes the topping too dry!). My favorite gluten-free flours for this crumble are millet flour, almond flour, and oat flour. Lovely tart apples are sliced up and arranged in a baking dish with lemon juice and water. Sprinkled on top is a delicious crumble topping made of oats, brown sugar, a bit of flour, butter, and chopped walnuts.