Autumn is definitely the right season for delicious apple crumble, and I can remember my dear Mum making a wonderful variety of crumbles using fruits appropriate to the season. She made it ‘the traditional’ way with flour, sugar etc. which if you have a look around the many recipes available on the ‘net’ you will see the carbohydrate content could be anything from 65g to 90g per serving! Now, if you are diabetic this would have your blood sugars rising, (best avoided!) and if like me you choose to eat the LCHF way and restrict your carb intake a ‘traditional’ crumble is best avoided!
However, fear not, Apple Crumble – which really is a symbol of great family meals and togetherness – has a lower carb version! Yes fellow low carb blogger Julia McPhee has a ‘low carb’ version of this family favourite and she says ‘ No McPhee family gathering is complete (without her version) of Apple Crumble’.
Ingredients:
6 (Granny smith) apples, peeled and sliced
50g Butter
1 cup Almond meal
1 tbsp. Natvia
Optional
½ cup chopped nuts or Crunchy Grain Free Granola
Instructions:
1. Boil apples until soft in a small amount of water. Place in a baking dish.
2. Place softened butter, almond meal, Natvia, and nuts in bowl and mix together (real crumble requires mixing by hand), until well combined but still crumbly.
3. Spread over cooked apples and bake at 180 for 30 minutes or until crumble is golden brown.
4. Serve warmed with fresh cream or yoghurt.
Note that nutritional information is calculated for 1 serve of crumble and does not include cream or yoghurt.
Serves: 8
Serving size: 1
Fat: 27.3g
Carbohydrates: 14.9g
Protein: 7.1g
Recipe suggestion from Julia McPhee’s blog here
If you need help with measurement and conversion please see here
For example, Ground Almonds/Almond Meal… it is made slightly different than almond flour. Instead of blanching the almonds to remove the skins, the skins on the almonds are kept on. It’s a little bit coarser than almond flour and still bakes the same. For baked goods, perhaps use a super fine ground almond flour but equally almond meal can perform just as well in most recipes, at a reduced cost.
Almond meal may also be known as ground almonds. You can grind almonds using a blender to make your own almond meal, the power of your blender will dictate how fine your almond meal will become.
A serving (1/4 cup or 28 grams) of the almond meal has the same nutrition of almond flour of nearly 160 calories, 6 grams of carbs and 3 grams of fibre. Only 6 total carbs or 3 net carbs per serving.
You can learn more about low carb flours from Libby at ‘Ditch The Carbs’ site, she has a very good guide, which you can read here
Happy Autumn/Fall
All the best Jan
