Don’t worry about overbuying fruit in the summer. Too much fruit is always a good thing when you can make fruit crisp.
Do you often get to the end of the week and your produce drawer has a variety of fruit that has to get eaten before it dies? Or do you like to shop your fruit in bulk, but can your family really eat a Costco-sized container of plums, peaches AND cherries fast enough? Make a fruit crisp every Shabbos and make the best use of all that fruit!
- 4 cups fruit
- ¼ to ½ cup sugar, depending on the sweetness of your fruit
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice (skip if your fruit is more tart than sweet)
- 1 cup (2 sticks) margarine, at room temperature
- 2 ½ cups old fashioned oats
- 1 ¼ cups flour
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup demerara sugar (this gives the topping a bit more crunch. Replace with brown sugar if unavailable)
- pinch salt
- Preheat oven to 350⁰F.
- Slice or cube fruit and place in 8x8 baking pan. Add the rest of the filling ingredients and mix together in the pan.
- In a bowl, combine all topping ingredients. The topping recipe yields enough for at least 3 8 x 8-inch pans (freeze the rest in Ziploc bags). Using ¼ to ⅓ of the topping, sprinkle on top of fruit mixture and bake until the juices are bubbling - approximately 40 minutes.
rivky says
looks yum! did you ever try substituting oil for margarine?
Matty says
This was oh so good! I used a variety of fruits including grapes and apple chunks.
Chava says
Can this be frozen raw?
What would the baking time be?
Thank you
Rachel says
I froze it par baked and defrosted it fully before finishing to bake ( bake time as per instructions, didn’t need any longer) and it came out absolutely delicious! Would do it again!