Easy apple crisp

After mixing the flour, oatmeal, spices and other dry ingredients with the butter, sprinkle evenly over the cut up apples in the buttered pan.Liberty Market has a great variety of organic herbs and spices. As an added bonus, if you bring back the empty container you get a discount on your next purchase of organic spices.  Pack down the brown sugar and add to the oatmeal, flour, spices and other dry ingredients. I used dark brown sugar and organic cinnamon and organic nutmeg from Liberty Market.View the list »
Cut up the apples in chunks or slices. You can leave the peels on or off, or a little of both - there are more vitamins in the peels. I used Granny Smith and Red Delicious apples.

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Fancy an apple crisp? Liberty Market in Kettering has organic apples for sale, either singly or in bags. You only need 3 or 4 apples to make the nice apple crisp recipe that follows this article.

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Apples are low in calories, contain no saturated fats or cholesterol and are a great source of dietary fiber. The fiber in apples helps to prevent the absorption of LDL ('bad') cholesterol and helps to protect the colon by binding any cancer-causing chemicals inside the colon.

Apples are loaded with antioxidants known as flavonoids and polyphenolics which help protect the body from the negative effects of free radicals. Apples contain lots of vitamin C and beta-carotene, both of which help your body resist attacks from infectious entities and assist in protecting you from those inflammatory free radicals. Apples have several B-complex vitamins and even a little calcium, potassium and phosphorus.

This apple crisp recipe is very quick and easy and you probably have all the ingredients just sitting around your kitchen doing nothing; if not, Liberty Market has everything you see in this recipe except for the butter…and everything at Liberty Market is organic!

Easy apple crisp

  • 4 medium apples, peeled and cut into chunks* (about 4 cups)
  • ¾ cup packed brown sugar
  • ½ cup flour
  • ½ cup quick oooking or old fashioned oats
  • ¼ cup butter, softened
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

Heat the over to 375 degrees. Butter the bottom and sides of an 8” square pan. Spread the apples in the pan. Mix the rest of the ingredients together in a separate bowl (you may need a pastry cutter to get the butter mixed in well) and then sprinkle all that over the apples.

Bake for about 30 minutes or until the apples are tender when stuck with a fork.

Really good with whipped cream or ice cream on top!

^or not. Most of the vitamins are in the peels! I compromise by leaving little bits of the peel on the apples.

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  • Cut up the apples in chunks or slices. You can leave the peels on or off, or a little of both - there are more vitamins in the peels. I used Granny Smith and Red Delicious apples.
  • Pack down the brown sugar and add to the oatmeal, flour, spices and other dry ingredients. I used dark brown sugar and organic cinnamon and organic nutmeg from Liberty Market.
  • Liberty Market has a great variety of organic herbs and spices. As an added bonus, if you bring back the empty container you get a discount on your next purchase of organic spices.  
  • After mixing the flour, oatmeal, spices and other dry ingredients with the butter, sprinkle evenly over the cut up apples in the buttered pan.
  • The cut up apples in the buttered pan, ready to be popped into the oven. The butter and dry ingredients have been blended together and sprinkled over the top of the apples.
  • Ta da! The finished apple crisp, fresh out of the oven. This is even tastier with some whipped cream or ice cream on top! This is a quick and easy dessert.
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Phyllis O'Beollain has been hanging around farm markets - nationally and internationally - for longer than some of you have been alive. Phyllis lives in Dayton, Ohio and enjoys the cuisine, culture and events associated with farm markets in and around the Miami Valley.

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