Apple Crisp

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 6 tablespoons unbleached all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup packed turbinado sugar (or light brown sugar if turbinado is not available)
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/8-1/4 teaspoon salt (depending on whether almonds are salted)
• 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled and cut into 1/2 inch pieces
• 3/4 cup coarsely chopped almonds
• 2 1/2 lbs apples (6-7 medium, pick an apple that will hold up and not become completely mushy when cooked)
• 1/2 teaspoon grated lemon zest
• 1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 1/4 cup turbinado sugar (or can use granulated sugar here if turbinado is not available)

Recipe

• 1 to prepare topping:.
• 2 place flour, sugar, spices, and salt in food processor and process briefly to combine.
• 3 add butter and pulse 10 times at 4 seconds a pulse.
• 4 add nuts and process again in 4 or 5 one-second pulses.
• 5 refrigerate the topping while preparing the filling.
• 6 preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• 7 to prepare filling:.
• 8 peel, quarter, and core apples.
• 9 cut peeled apples into 1 inch chunks.
• 10 toss apples with zest, lemon juice, and sugar.
• 11 scrape fruit into 8 inch square baking pan (or 9â€? deep-dish pie pan).
• 12 distribute topping evenly over the fruit.
• 13 bake for 40 minutes.
• 14 after 40 minutes, increase oven temperature to 400 and continue baking until topping turns deep golden brown (about 5 minutes more).
• 15 serve warm (the crisp can be made ahead by a few hours and kept at room temperature, then re-heated in a warm oven before serving).
• 16 to double the recipe to serve 8 -12, place ingredients in a 13" x 9" baking dish and bake for 55 minutes at 375 without an increase in temperature at the end.