Healthy Vegan Apple Crumble

It’s autumn and who doesn’t love an apple crumble?! This recipe replaces butter with coconut oil so that is vegan and uses Xylitol instead of sugar. I’m not a fan of sweeteners, however, in this recipe I’ve used xylitol as it is very sweet so you need far less of it than sugar. However,I would not recommend consuming large amounts of it.

Antioxidant rich apples can help to prevent heart disease, weight gain and reduce cholesterol

Ingredients:

Apple Compote:

• 10 small cooking apples
• 1 tsp of cinnamon

Oat Topping:

• 230g oats
• 50g chopped almonds
• 55g xylitol
• 85g coconut oil

Method:

To make the Apple Compote:

1.Place the apples and cinnamon into a pan with a little water and cook until softened and starting to break up

To make the Oat Topping:

1.In a large bowl mix together the oats, almonds, xylitol and coconut oil with your hands until it looks like breadcrumbs

2.Put the apples into the bottom of a heat proof dish, cover with the crumble mix and bake for 25mins at gas mark 4 / 180 or 160 if fan