This dessert is easier and faster to make than an apple pie or crisp, and requires no baking. Instead of refined sugars, this recipe uses dates for sweetness, and lemon juice and nutmeg for that extra zing.Visit Cathy Fisher's blog at Straight Up Food.
Serves: 4
Crumble topping:
- ½ cup walnuts
- 2 pitted dates, chopped
Filling:
- 3 apples, peeled, sliced and diced
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Apple-Date Sauce:
- 2 apples, peeled and diced
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 5 pitted dates
- ¼ cup raisins
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
Topping: Blend the walnuts and dates in a food processor until the texture is similar to Grape Nuts. Spoon into a small bowl and set aside.
Filling: Toss the 3 peeled, diced apples with 1 tablespoon of lemon juice and set aside in a bowl. Next, in the food processor, blend all of the apple-date sauce ingredients. Toss this mixture with the sliced apples.
Serve: Divide the apple filling between 4 small dessert dishes and sprinkle with date-nut topping.
Notes: Use a good eating apple, such as a Gala, Fuji or Pink Lady in this recipe. Use Meyer lemons if you can get them.
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Priti says
For Raw Apple Crumble, if I do not have walnuts, what can I replace it with or is it ok if I don't put it?
Nava says
If you still want a crumbly topping, you can use quick-cooking oats (perhaps toast them on a dry skillet first for a nuttier flavor) or use any kind of nuts you have on hand (if you'd like to use nuts at all, that is).
Sandy Halliday says
Makes such a change to find a recipe that does not contain xylitol or similar sweeteners. It upsets my husbands gut so using dates and raisins is ideal.
Nava says
I hope you and your hubby will enjoy this, Sandy!
Vusala says
Wonderful recipe! Which sort of dates have you used?
Nava says
Medjool dates are usually the moistest. But you can also use deglet — they're smaller, but you can soak them a bit if they seem dry.
Vusala says
Thanks for clarification. I just made this and it was oh so yummy!!! Just my sauce was too dry to blend, so had to add about 1/4 cup of water (maybe my apples were not that juicy) and also it came out too sweet for me, so I added 2 more tbsp lemon juice. Will be making this recipe every week now! Thank you so much!