Apple and Cherry Crumble

Hello, you are in for a special treat.  We went to the grocery store last weekend and found cherries on sale.  They were delicious by themselves so I knew they would make a great dessert too.  I decided to use them in a hot crumble and present them as a contribution to a lovely meal our friends served us last night. So, back to the store on Saturday to buy a few more ingredients and now we have a fabulous Apple and Cherry Crumble.

For the first step, peel and core five medium to large Granny Smith apples.  Place them into a saucepan and add about three to four cups of cherries that have been pitted and halved.  To that, add one third cup of white sugar, and the juice and zest from half a lemon.  Cook over medium to medium-high heat on the stove-top until the fruit gets slightly soft.

Fruit starting to cook

Fruit slightly soft after about 10 - 15 minutes of simmering

While the fruit is simmering, create the crumble topping.  Start by putting oats, brown sugar, rice flour, butter, pitted dates, sunflower seeds and cinnamon into a food processor and pulse until crumbly... then top the apple/cherry mixture and cook in a preheated 180 degree Celsius oven for fifteen to twenty minutes or until topping is brown and bubbly.

Crumble ingredients

NOTE:  The recipe I made here makes plenty of crumble topping.  (I doubled the crumble portion of the recipe) I happen to like a lot of topping but if you don't, you can make the single recipe or double it and save some for later.  :)

Crumble once pulsed/mixed

Take it out of the oven and let it cool slightly.  Serve with ice-cream or double whipped cream.

Completed Apple/Cherry Crumble

Presto...  a wonderful use of apples and cherries!

Ingredients

5 med to large granny smith apples
3 - 4 cups pitted & halved cherries
1/3 cup white sugarjuice & zest of 1/2 lemon

Topping:

½ cup rolled oats
3 Tbsp brown sugar

¼ (or less) cup rice flour
3 - 4 Tbsp unsalted butter
¼ cup of pitted dates

¼ unsalted sunflower seeds

1/2 tsp of cinnamon