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This dessert is easier and faster to make than an apple pie or crisp, and it requires no baking. Instead of refined sugars, this recipe uses dates for sweetness, and lemon juice and nutmeg for that extra zing.
From Straight Up Food
Notes:
Use a good eating apple, such as a Gala, Fuji, or Pink Lady in this recipe, or a mix.
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By Cathy Fisher,
Ingredients
For the crumble topping:
- ½ cup walnuts
- 2 pitted Medjool dates (or 4 Deglet Noor), chopped
For the diced apple filling:
- 4 apples, peeled and diced
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
For the applesauce (to be tossed with the diced apples):
- 2 apples, peeled and diced (see Notes)
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 5 pitted Medjool dates (or 10 Deglet Noor), chopped
- ¼ cup raisins
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
Instructions
- To make the crumble topping: Blend the walnuts and dates in a food processor to make crumbly nuggets similar in size to Grape Nuts cereal. Spoon into a small bowl and set aside.
- To make the filling: Toss the 4 peeled, diced apples with 1 tablespoon of lemon juice, and set aside in a bowl.
- Next, blend all of the sauce ingredients in the food processor: 2 apples, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, plus the dates, raisins, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Toss this mixture with the sliced apples.
- To serve, spoon into dessert dishes and sprinkle with the date-nut crumble topping.
Nutritional Information:
Per serving (⅙ of recipe): 250 calories, 53 g carbohydrates, 2.5 g protein, 6.1 g total fat, 0.6 g saturated fat, 0 g cholesterol, 7 mg sodium, 7.2 g fiber, 42 g sugar
Note: Nutritional information is provided as an estimate only.
Comments (7)
(5 from 4 votes)One of our favorite fall desserts (but anytime, really)!
How long will this keep (refrigerated)?
This is a go-to recipe for our family! So fresh and so tasty!!
Made this dessert tonight. It was incredibly good, even my husband liked it, who likes apple desserts warm. It came together easily.
so yummy
This is delicious! My whole family loved it.
Delicious dessert….I actually had it for lunch though….,it’s very filling and I made sweet cashew cream to go with it….it would also be great with berry flavoured frozen banana ice cream! Raw and yummy!