Breakfast is hard for me. For some reason I have trouble getting moving in the morning and I really don’t want to eat at that time. So it’s good if I can have something in the fridge that’s tasty and that I can just grab.

Apple crisp in progress

  • 8 granny smith apples
  • 1 cup rolled oats
  • 1/2 cup wholemeal flour
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, diced
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp allspice

Grind the oats in a food processor, not as fine as flour, but so that no whole oats are visible. Add in the flour, sugar, butter and spices and blend til it all comes together into little clumps like wet sand.

Peel the apples if you want (I didn’t) and slice or dice them however you like. Put them in a baking dish and top with the crumble mix. You can make two layers if you like; I put about 1/3 of the topping on the first half of the apples, and the remaining 2/3 on the top.

Apple crisp in progress

Bake at 180C/350F til the apples are cooked and the crumble topping is browned — start checking after 45 minutes or so.

Apple crisp with yoghurt

It’s not pretty but it is pretty tasty.