The Apples of my eyes

I always loved apple pies, and even more so apple crisps.

My sister made it once when she returned from US and she made one during her short stay with us. Only thing was, I think she forgot to put the sugar in the crust and it was so sour! But still very yummy (just top up with some honey or ice cream to go with it).

Anyway I was bugging her for ages to pass me the recipe (she still owes me the red wine vinegar chicken recipe too) to no avail. Then one day, my allrecipes.com e-newsletter came in with a weekly highly highlight on apples. So i surfed through the recipes, read through all the reviews and selected one to try with the advised modifications.

It was very good! The topping is very crispy and kinda healthy (it has oats it in!). The apples is nice and soft(tarty too!). I have the pictures somewhere but I can't seem to locate it. Anyway, after this, I'll be researching on recipes for V Day =) so watch out for it.

APPLE CRISP

INGREDIENTS FOR THE FILLING
10 green apples
1/3 cup white sugar
2 tablespoon plain flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup of raisins (more if you like)
Juice of 1 lemon (reduce if you don’t like it tart)

INGREDIENTS FOR THE TOPPING
1 cup quick-cooking oats
1 cup self-raising flour
3/4 packed brown sugar
1/2 cup butter, melted (1 block SCS 125g salted butter)

DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat oven to 175 degree C for at least 20 minutes.
2. Peel, core and dice the apples. Toss with lemon juice immediately,
3. Combine the white sugar, 2 tablespoon plain flour and ground cinnamon, toss with the apples and raisins.
4.Place the apples on a baking dish (Mine’s 20 X 20 X 6cm I think).
5. Mix the oats, flour, brown sugar and add in melted butter. Crumble evenly over the apple mixture.
6. Bake at 175 degrees C for about 45 minutes.

Tip 1: If you like your apples softer, cover the top with foil and bake for a further 15 minutes.

Tip 2: Up the cinnamon if you like. I do it with 2 teaspoons for the filling and sprinkle some for the topping.