We love this simple and versatile apple recipe that can be enjoyed as a healthy dessert or a breakfast alternative. You can adapt the topping using whatever you have in your cupboards, nuts, Chia seed, buckwheat flakes or even just dried fruit. For those mums reading this too a great dessert option for the little ones – yummy, nutritious and good for the gut! You can also remove the honey to lower the sugar content as the apricots add sweetness.
Apple, Apricot Crumble Bowls with Probiotic Yoghurt – Serves 8
Ingredients
8 Granny Smith Apples
6 Ripe Apricots
1 tsp Honey
1 tsp Cinnamon
1 Cup of Water
100g Rolled Oats
2 Tbsp Ground Almonds
2 Tbsp Ground Flaxseed
8 Walnuts, Chopped
1 Tsp Coconut Sugar
2 Tbsp Organic Cold Pressed Coconut Oil
Method
- Heat the oven to 180 degrees
- Chop the apple with skin on into 1cm cubes and put into a large heavy based saucepan with the water onto a medium heat
- Add the cinnamon and honey to the apple and cook for 10 mins or until the apple has softened
- Halve the apricots, remove the stone, quarter and add to the softened apple
- Cook for a further 5 mins
- In a mixing bowl mix together the oats, ground almonds, flaxseed, chopped walnuts, and coconut sugar
- In a small saucepan melt the coconut oil gently then stir into the oats mixture
- Line a baking tray with parchment paper
- Spread the oat mixture out onto the baking tray and cook in the oven for about 10 mins until it turns slightly golden brown
- Serve the apple mixture in bowls, with oats sprinkled on the top with probiotic yoghurt organic or greek yoghurt
Apples are great for the gut too:
- They contain a type of fibre called pectin which helps feed the gut with friendly bacteria to help produce anti-inflammatory substances to fight off the bad microbes
- And when apples are stewed they more easily release their pectin
- And looking after your gut helps with digesting nutrients to boost detoxification of your colon and support your immune system
- Other gut-friendly foods include
- Fermented foods e.g. sauerkraut, kefir milk
- Full-fat probiotic yogurt
