Train With Grains Recipe: No Sweat Apple Crisp

Train With Grains Recipe: No Sweat Apple Crisp by Andrew Chak

This year we’re teaming up with the Grain Farmers of Ontario to bring you the best pre and post-run recipes to fuel your marathon training! Each week we’ll feature a new and unique recipe from one of our CRS Community Leader Ambassadors. This week Andrew Chak shares a healthy and delicous post-run treat to warm you up after a cool fall run. Do you have a recipe you’d like to share? Share a photo on Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag #TrainWithGrains for your chance to win a “Good in Every Grain” Prize Pack valued at $50!

As runners, we often work up enough sweat on our own so it’s great to find solutions that make the other parts of our lives just a little bit easier. When it comes to a nutritious snack, I’m thankful for what my wife can whip up to feed a hungry marathoner and three growing boys.

Over the years, she has made us a dish of “no sweat apple crisp” that has the taste of apple pie with much less effort. Feel free to adjust the sugar content to your liking. Enjoy!

Ingredients

  • 5 cups of apples – washed, peeled and 4-Mixed Ingredientssliced
  • 2 tbsp. brown sugar to coat the apples
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar for the crisp
  • 1/2 cup rolled oats
  • 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1 tbsp. of crunchy flax cereal for some extra oomph in the crisp
  • 1/3 cup butter – softened

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
  2. Place the sliced apples into a baking dish. Add 2 tbsp. brown sugar and mix with the apples to coat them.
  3. Pour the brown sugar, rolled oats, all-purpose flour, cinnamon, and crunch flax cereal into a mixing bowl. Grab a fork and imagine yourself doing track repeats in the bowl as you mix the ingredients together.
  4. Mix in the softened butter until it is nice and crumbly.
  5. Sprinkle the crumbly mix over the apples.
  6. Bake uncovered for 30 minutes or until the fruit is tender.
  7. Fight every urge to start munching down the crumble until it at least cools down a bit.

8-The Finished Product


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