I love apple crumb pie. The best part of this pie is that it is so packed with good stuff that you can eat it for breakfast and not feel guilty (maybe skip the ice cream).
Gluten-Free Vegan Apple Crumble
Ingredients:
- Crust (and 1/2 the crumble)
- garbanzo bean flour - 3/4 cup
- almonds - 1 cup (ground to a fine flour)
Almonds are a rich source of Vitamin E, calcium, folic acid, as well as the minerals magnesium, selenuim, phosphorus and zinc. Almonds are wonderful for maintaining skin elasticity as well as helping to lower cholesterol. They are also a good source of protein.
- gluten-free oats - 3/4 cup (ground to a fine flour)
- hemp seeds - 1/2 cup (ground to a fine flour)
Hemp is a highly digestible plant protein. It contains all 9 essential amino acids as well as being an excellent source of fatty acids.
- chia powder - 1/2 cup
- coconut oil - 1/2 cup
Coconut oil is medium chain fatty acid which means that it is broken down quickly by the body for quick energy rather than stored as fat. This amazing oil contains lauric and caprylic acids which are anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-fungal. Coconut oil has also been shown to have properties that can protect the brain from alzheimers and other neuro-degenerative diseases.
- maple syrup - 1/2 cup
- salt - dash
- Crumble
- Half the crust ingredients -
- gluten-free oats - 1/2 cup
- coconut butter (or oil) - 3 tbsp
- crushed walnuts - handful
- Pie Filling
- apple - 2 cups, thin sliced
“An apple a day” is an adage for a reason. Apples are full of fiber, vitamins, minerals and many beneficial phytochemicals. Apples are also a good source of the soluble fiber pectin, which can help detox metals and food additives from your body.
- lemon juice -
- cinnamon - 1/2 tsp
- maple syrup - 1 tbsp
- apple juice - 1 tbsp
“An apple a day” is an adage for a reason. Apples are full of fiber, vitamins, minerals and many beneficial phytochemicals. Apples are also a good source of the soluble fiber pectin, which can help detox metals and food additives from your body.
- grated ginger - 1/2 tsp
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 375
To make the pie crust mix all of the crust ingredients in a large mixing bowl. It should have the consistency of dough.
Take out 1/2 of the mixture and press it into a pie tin. You want to make sure it is thin and consistent.
The other 1/2 of the mixture will be used for the crumble mixture so set it aside for right now.
For the pie filling take the sliced apples, lemon juice, ginger, maple syrup, and apple juice and cinnamon and mix together in a bowl (I actually used my juicer and juiced 1/2 a lemon, 1/2 and apple and a piece of ginger and poured that mixture over the apples with the cinnamon and maple syrup)
We ran out of ground cinnamon so my son grated a cinnamon stick into the filling mixture. A little more high maintenance but it worked.
Put the pie filling mixture into the pie crust.
For the crumble, take the other 1/2 of the crust mixture. Add the whole oats, sugar, walnuts, coconut butter, and mix thoroughly.
Put the crumble mixture onto top of the pie. Press it down a couple of times so that the crumble stays in place.
Bake in the oven for ~45 minutes.
I like to serve this with some non-dairy vanilla coconut ice cream for an a-la-mode dessert. Coconut Bliss is our favorite.
When I have it in the morning, I eat it with some coconut milk kefir or all by itself. It tastes so good you could eat it all day long...It's so good for you that you can. That makes everybody happy.
It tastes good hot, cold or at room temperature. It also makes a good lunchbox item.
