Enjoy this hearty and healthy vegan breakfast apple crisp recipe made with freshly milled spelt flour. This vegan apple crisp recipe uses natural sugars, is super easy with only a few ingredients. Make this recipe a vegan apple rhubarb crisp easily. Easily make this vegan apple crisp gluten free.
The perfect quick, filling and easy vegan breakfast or supper to through together for your family.
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How this Healthy Breakfast Vegan Apple Crisp Recipe Got Started
All this started when I was a kid. I didn’t even know apple crisp was a dessert, until one day when my mom made apple crisp for company as a dessert. I was blown away!
Before then she had always made a healthy breakfast apple crisp recipe or made a vegan apple crisp recipe for supper.
Until that point in my childhood I had had no idea one could make vegan apple crisp into a dessert by simply adding more sugar! Boy was it delicious!
Truly though, both the sugar free or natural sugar apple crisp was super tasty as a healthy breakfast or super too!
Ingredients for Healthy Breakfast Vegan Apple Crisp
- quick oats or rolled oats
- spelt flour (or flour of your choice)
- cinnamon
- Himalayan salt
- avocado oil
- maple syrup or honey
- apples
- rhubarb (optional)
- chopped pecans or walnuts (optional)
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- large mixing bowl
- wooden mixing spoon
- large baking dish – I use one like this
- baking pan 9×13 inch pan
- measuring spoons
Why use fresh milled spelt flour instead of regular flour?
Freshly milled flour is superior in health benefits as it contains all the amazing components of the grain for your body. Nothing has been stripped or added. That means you are getting a host of vitamins and a good amount of fibre from freshly milled grains.
Spelt is an ancient wheat grain that has a simple gluten structure. Making spelt much easier for your gut to digest.
I have found some members of my family cannot tolerate wheat, but are able to eat ancient wheat grains like spelt, Kamut (khorasan) and einkorn.
All these ancient wheat grains have not been hybridized, keeping a simple gluten structure which is easy for your body to break down.
Instructions: How to make healthy Breakfast Vegan Apple Crisp with fresh milled spelt flour
For the Vegan Apple Crisp Crumble
- Mill the spelt grains so you can have a freshly milled spelt flour to work with. If you are just using regular flour skip this step.
- In a mixing bowl combine the dry ingredients. Mix together the quick (or rolled) oats, fresh milled spelt flour, cinnamon and salt. I like to use quick oats as it seems to absorb the wet ingredients best, but I have used rolled oats often enough.
- If you are adding any nuts such as walnuts or pecans to the crumple chop them. Then also mix them in with the dry ingredients.
- Once the dry Ingredients is mixed, then add the oil and maple syrup (or melted honey) and mix until well combined.
For the Vegan Apple Crisp Filling – Breakfast crisp with natural sugar
- Chop up apples enough apples to fill a 9 by 13 inch or 10 by 13 inch baking dish.
I’ve used all kinds of apples, the cooking apples take the least amount of time to bake. If you end up using an apple that’s not a baking or softer apple, you simply add a bit more baking time until they are soft.
2. If you are using rhubarb, you can add fresh or frozen rhubarb to the bottom of the baking dish. I like to use around 4 cups of chopped rhubarb for the 10 by 13 inch baking dish.
3. Then fill the rest of the baking dish up with chopped apples until it’s around 3/4 full or a bit more.
Preserving Food Tip: To make things go faster, in the fall I like to chop up apples and freeze them. Then all I have to do in the winter is pull them out to thaw a bit, dup them into my baking pan with some frozen rhubarb from my garden. Makes for a quick through together healthy apple crisp breakfast!
4. You can sprinkle in some spelt flour, about a 1/4 cup, to soak up any extra moisture (especially if your fruit was frozen). This is not always needed, depending on how juicy your apples are.
5. I like to sprinkle some cinnamon or pumpkin spice on top of apples before adding the crumble if we feel like eating a stronger apple pie flavoured vegan apple crisp.
Putting the Vegan Apple Crisp Recipe All Together
- Once the apples and optional rhubarb is filling the baking dish to just over three quarters full.
- Dump the vegan apple crisp filling overtop of the fruit. Spread evenly and pat down.
- Bake for 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 minutes, or until the apples are fork tender.
Variations of Vegan Breakfast Apple Crisp Recipe
Switch up the fruit!
Truly you can use whatever fruit you have on hand, there’s no rules!
I’ve even enjoyed a crisp that had zucchini in it to help supplement the lack of fruit and plentiful zucchini from the garden. (Zucchini takes on whatever other fruit flavours you pair it with.)
Don’t be afraid to experiment with the proportions of fruits. It’s more about what flavour you want to bring out more than anything. Have fun with it!
Make a vegan rhubarb apple crisp by adding 4 cups of rhubarb with the apples to give it a sour tang. You may want to increase the natural sugars if your family doesn’t prefer a sour tasting apple crisp like mine does. Add the natural sugars like honey or maple syrup to the fruit.
Make a vegan saskatoon and rhubarb crisp in place of or along with the apples (or zucchini) in this vegan crisp.
Turn this healthy vegan breakfast crisp into a strawberry rhubarb crisp (and apple if you want).
Make an easy breakfast peach crisp by using canned peaches instead of apples. A great variation for a vegan breakfast peach crisp.
Add nuts to the crumble such as walnuts or pecans.
Sprinkle raisins in with the apples for extra iron and sweetness.
Add fresh chopped zucchini as a filler along with the fruit.
Make it a dessert crisp by adding more natural sweetener like maple syrup or honey to the apple crumble and fruit layer.
Tips: Breakfast Vegan Apple Crisp FAQs
What do you eat recipe with?
- We love to top this recipe with our easy vegan pear cream!
- Top it with coconut milk cream that’s sat in the fridge to thicken.
- Eat it with sliced fresh fruit like bananas.
- Simply enjoy the breakfast vegan apple crisp by itself! It’s delicious this way too!
How to make sugar free vegan apple crisp?
I only use a little of natural sugars such as liquid honey or maple syrup. If you wanted to go completely sugar free make sure to use more oil in place of the maple syrup and sweet apples (no tangy rhubarb).
How can I make this vegan apple crisp into a dessert?
Add about a 1/2 cup extra of natural sweetener like liquid honey or maple syrup to the apple filling as well as to the vegan apple crisp crumple.
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Breakfast Vegan Apple Crisp
Hearty vegan apple crisp is a heathy vegan breakfast crisp recipe, made with freshly milled spelt flour and only a little natural sugar. Can be made gluten free.
Ingredients
- 5 cups quick oats (or rolled oats)
- 1 cup freshly milled spelt flour (or flour of your choice) + 1/4 cup for the fruit
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp Himalayan salt
- 1/4 cup avocado oil
- 1/4 cup maple syrup (or liquid honey)
- 8 cups apples chopped (about 10 apples)
- 4 cups chopped rhubarb (optional)
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts (optional)
- 2 tsp cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice
Instructions
- Mill 1 cup of spelt flour. (Skip if you are using regular flour.)
- In a mixing bowl combine the dry ingredients: quick oats, spelt flour, cinnamon and salt. Mix well.
- Add the oil and maple syrup and mix until well combined. Set aside.
- If using rhubarb (fresh or frozen) add it to the bottom of the baking dish. (Use around 4 cups of chopped rhubarb for the 10x13 inch baking dish, 2 cups of rhubarb in a 9x13 inch pan.)
- Chop the apples to fill at least 3/4 of a 9x13 inch or 10x13 inch baking dish.
- On top of the fruit, sprinkle 1/4 cup flour, to soak up extra moisture (especially if your fruit was frozen).
- Sprinkle 2 tsp cinnamon or pumpkin spice on top of apples before adding the crumble. Give a gentle stir.
- Pour the apple crisp crumble overtop the fruit. Spread evenly and pat down.
- Bake for 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 minutes, or until the apples are fork tender.
Notes
- Make this a gluten free apple crisp by using oats marked gluten free and swapping the spelt flour for oat flour.
- If adding pecans to the crumple chop first then add to the dry ingredients.
- Cooking apples take the least amount of time to bake. If using an apple that's not a baking or softer apple, simply add a bit more baking time until they are soft.
- For a quick through together breakfast in winter. Chop up apples and rhubarb and freeze them in the right proportions when in season. Then simply pull out of the freezer, thaw a bit and pour into the baking dish. The fruit only needs to be thawed enough to spread out in the baking dish. Makes for a quick through together healthy apple crisp breakfast!
- Switch up the fruit! Get creative and try different combinations of fruit like blueberries, strawberries, Saskatoons, rhubarb, peaches, raisins, nuts, even add a little zucchini as it'll take on the fruit flavours.
- Turn this recipe into a dessert crisp by adding more natural sweetener like maple syrup or honey to the apple crumble and fruit layer.
Nutrition Information:
Serving Size: 1 cupAmount Per Serving:Calories: 319Total Fat: 10gUnsaturated Fat: 10gSodium: 53mgCarbohydrates: 51gFiber: 8gSugar: 14gProtein: 7g
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