Gingered Apple Crisp Recipes

APPLE CRISP WITH GINGER

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly spray a 10 by 8 inch baking pan with cooking spray. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, mix ginger root, lemon zest, lemon juice, sugar, and cinnamon. Add apple chunks and mix thoroughly. Make sure the zest and ginger root are distributed equally throughout the apples. Put into baking dish.
• In the same bowl that you used for the apple mixture, mix flour, oats, cinnamon, nutmeg, and brown sugar. Add the softened butter, and use two knives held together in your hand (or a pastry cutter or fork) to cut the butter into the dry ingredients. The mixture should hold together in large clumps.
• Using a large spoon or your hand, sprinkle the crisp topping over the apple mixture. Put into preheated oven and bake 1 hour and 10 minutes, or until apples are soft and crisp is lightly browned on top. Cool slightly, and serve warm with ice cream, if desired.

GINGERED APPLE-BERRY CRISP

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Spray 12x8-inch (2-quart) glass baking dish with cooking spray. In large bowl, combine all topping ingredients except butter. With pastry blender or fork, cut in butter until crumbly.
• In large bowl, mix all fruit mixture ingredients; pour into baking dish. Sprinkle topping evenly over fruit.
• Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until fruit mixture is bubbly and topping is golden brown. If necessary, cover with foil during last 15 to 20 minutes of baking to prevent excessive browning.

APPLE CRISP WITH FRESH GINGER

Steps:

• Peel, quarter and core apples and slice each into sixteenths.
• Mix slices with lemon juice, zest and grated ginger.
• Cut butter into small bits and mix with flour, sugar and cinnamon until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• Place apples in bottom of 4 buttered baking dishes (1 1/2- to 2-cup capacity) and sprinkle butter mixture over top.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes, or until apples are cooked but still hold their shape.
• Serve with clotted cream or heavy cream alongside.

GINGER APPLE-PEAR CRISP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°. In a large bowl, toss the first 7 ingredients. Transfer to a greased 2-1/2-qt. baking dish., In another bowl, mix the first 6 topping ingredients; cut in butter until crumbly. Sprinkle over fruit., Bake until golden brown and fruit is tender, 40-45 minutes. Serve warm.

APPLE-GINGERSNAP CRISP

Steps:

• Heat butter in a skillet over medium-high heat. Saute fresh apple slices 5 minutes, or until tender.
• Stir in juice, sugar, fresh ginger and cinnamon. Cook 5 minutes, or until liquid is syrupy.
• Add dried apple slices and candied ginger. Reduce heat to medium, and cook 3 minutes more, or until heated through.
• Sprinkle bottom of a 2-qt. bowl with 1/2 cup crushed gingersnaps.
• Stir remaining gingersnap crumbs into the apple mixture.
• Layer apple mixture and yogurt in bowl.
• Garnish with whole gingersnaps, if desired.

APPLE AND PUMPKIN GINGER CRISP

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• In a large bowl, combine the oats, 1/2 cup flour, pecans, light-brown sugar, ginger, salt, and butter. Mix until large crumbs form, and refrigerate until ready to use.
• In a 9-by-13-inch baking dish, combine the pumpkin, apples, lemon zest and juice, sugar, cinnamon, and remaining 2 tablespoons flour; toss until mixed. Sprinkle the oat crumble over the apple mixture and bake until the topping is browned and juices are bubbling, about 45 minutes. Let stand for 15 minutes. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.

GINGERED APPLE CRISP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Lightly grease an 8 x 8 inch glass baking dish.
• Prepare granny smith apples: peel, quarter, core, and cut lengthwise into 1/4 inch thick slices; then place in prepared baking dish.
• In a large mixing bowl, stir together whole wheat pastry (or all-purpose) flour, rolled oats, light brown sugar, ground cinnamon, salt, sliced almonds, and chopped crystallized ginger. Using 2 knives, or a pastry blender, cut in unsalted butter until well distributed; stir in light olive oil. Mixture should be crumbly.
• Evenly distribute topping mixture over apples.
• Bake crisp for 55 minutes; or until apples are cooked through, and topping is light brown.
• Transfer baked crisp to a wire rack to cool a bit before serving.
• Serve warm.