Ingredients
Pears, cored and sliced, enough to fill a 9 x 13 glass pan (a few pounds)
1 cup sprouted oats
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup cold butter
1 tsp cardamom
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ginger
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°
Place the sliced pears in the bottom of your baking pan.
In a mixing bowl, combine dry ingredients.
Grate the cold butter into the mixing bowl.
Using your hands, work the butter into the dry ingredients until the mixture takes a coarse and crumbly consistency.
Spread the topping evenly over the pears in the pan.
Bake at 350° for 45-50 minutes, or until the pears are cooked and the crisp is golden.
Allow to mostly cool before eating.
Most excellent when served with raw whipped cream, full fat yogurt, or vanilla ice cream.
Enjoy and be nourished!
Notes
If you follow me on Instagram, you might remember the day I impulse bought 100 pounds of organic pears from Azure Standard (they were 48 cents a pound— how could I not?!). I canned some, made pear sauce, ate lots fresh, and gave many to friends and family. I decided to make this crisp the other night to use up some of the last of them (which were getting past dangerously ripe).
This recipe can be used almost interchangeably with apples to make apple crisp; I would just de-emphasize the cardamom and add more cinnamon.
This recipe has less added sugar than your average crisp recipe, but I find it to be plenty sweet.
As always, the higher quality your ingredients, the more nourishing the dish is— because I’m forever a believer that even the sweet treats we enjoy should contribute richly to your body! Using organic fruit, grains, and sugar will reduce your agricultural chemical consumption, and using grass fed butter will elevate your fat soluble vitamin intake (essential for fertility, beauty, mental health, bone and dental health, hormones, and more functions than I can count).
If you try this recipe, I’d love to hear about it! Leave a comment or tag me on Instagram @onearthwithlisa :)