Paleo Apple Crumble

ingredients

• 7 pink lady apples

• 1/4 cup apple cider or apple juice

• 1 tablespoon maple syrup

• 1 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice

• 1/8 teaspoon fine sea salt

• 3 tablespoons unsalted butter or coconut oil

  For the crumble:

• 125g strp’d tigernut flour

• 50g toasted pecans or walnuts (coarsely chopped)

• 45g coconut sugar or maple sugar

• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

• 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg

• 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt

• 5 tablespoons unsalted butter or melted coconut oil

Serve with vanilla ice cream (can be dairy-free)

instructions

1. Preheat oven to 175 degrees C

2. Peel the apples and cut the apples sliced fairly thin

3. Mix in a large bowl with apple cider, maple syrup, lemon juice and salt

4. Scrape the apple mix into a 9-inch round baking dish or an 8x8 square pan

5. Dot the apples with the cubed butter

6. Bake the apples for 30-35 minutes. Stir gently

   For the crumble:

7. Combine the tigernut flour, nuts, coconut sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in a large bowl

8. Stir in the melted butter until combined. The mixture will resemble gravel

9. Crumble the topping over the baked apples

10. Return to the oven and bake until the topping is deep golden and the apples are bubbling (approx 30 minutes but every oven is different)

11. Let it cool for at least 10 minutes

12. Serve warm with ice cream

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