Hello and welcome to Freshly Served healthy
vegan recipes in Europe.
Phil and I are in Croatia today and you can
follow all of our vegan travel adventures
if you go to HealthyVeganRecipes.net/Europe.
Today’s creation is another sweet treat.
Phil and I had a bit of a sweet tooth lately
but we don’t have an oven here in our hostel
which is amazing and Phil’s gonna show you
the view at the back of our room here off
the balcony but we don’t have an oven but
we do have a kitchen in our room which is
awesome.
And what I created yesterday and I’m gonna
make for you today is a stove hot apple crisp
and it’s low fat again, it’s like the
cookies I showed you last week where I don’t
use ay oil so it’s actually not really a
crisp kind of apple crisp it’s more like
apple yumminess.
Anyway!
So I’ve got things started here, I chopped
up two apples and they’re in a pot on the
back burner here.
I added a little bit of blueberry juice that
we bought and a little bit of water and then
I’ve just got some low heat on them so they
can start to soften while I put together the
topping.
And the main ingredient for the topping is
our oats and these one are short flake oats
or quake oats and so they get very sticky
and mushy when you add water to them but if
you have regular large flake oats which is
probably what I prefer but didn’t have any
in the store.
So if you have some large flakes oats I recommend
adding a bit of flour in this recipe but for
the short ones, the quick ones, the flours
gonna make it pretty sticky so I probably
leave it out.
Then what I’ve got is some of my cinnamon
nutmeg all spice – spice blend so I’m
gonna add a little bit to the topping as well
as a little bit to the apples as they cook.
And although cinnamon does taste good it is
not sweet on its own, it does make thing taste
sweet but it has a little bit of bitter flavour
if you put too much in so don’t be doing
that.
Then I’ve got some unrefined cane sugar
here and I got some questions last week about
alternatives for sugar and what you can use
is any type of liquid sweetener so brown rice
syrup is one of my favourite at home or maple
syrup and you can also just use more fruit
so you could if you want to puree some banana
or add some apple sauce or something like
that to the topping that’s gonna be excellent
as well.
I’m gonna add just a little bit of sugar
to these apples as well just because it helps
them to soften, so do these apples, stir around
here.
Just turn that up a little bit.
Stir these together and the final thing I’m
gonna add in the topping is some walnuts.
Phil and I have been missing out on our flax
seeds so there she is.
Omega three, we got some walnuts.
I’m just crushing up a little bit with my
hands so that the chunks aren’t as big in
the topping and you can add as many as you
like here.
Yesterday I also added some coconut into topping
but I don’t have any left.
Well that’s gonna be good in here.
Coconut, walnuts, any type of nuts!
Any thoughts Phil?
Anyway let your creativity ran wild!
So now that I got everything mix together
I’m gonna add some water and you just wanna
add enough so that these comes together.
Ok!
Like I said it will get too sticky if you
add too much water, if you had too much flour
especially with these quake oats.
So, that’s looking pretty nice there right?
And when it’s all ready to go all you need
to do is jump these over the apples.
You can hear it starting to bubble away down
there.
And all you’re really looking for is for
the apples to soften up a bit and for the
oats to heat up.
So I’m going to put a lid on these because
otherwise the moisture from the bottom of
the apples will evaporate and then it will
stick to the bottom which is not a good scene.
So keep an eye on it.
Shouldn’t take too long I’d say 10 minutes
or so and it will be ready to eat.
I’ll go show people our view.
Yeah!
Gorgeous!
If I can get through the door with no handle.
So we’re in a town called Split Croatia
just outside of the town actually and it’s
not all that great of a town but as you can
see we’re pretty much on the Mediterranean
here on this, on the first-second floor of
this balcony and we have a cool tree right
next to us and we have a really good internet
connection which is not the most important
thing to most people who are travelling but
we are working we travel.
Hi!
– Hey!
So, a few minutes and we’ve got a lovely,
piping hot, low fat apple crisp.
Cute set to satisfy our sweet tooth.
I don’t know what that is but maybe Halloween.
I don’t know!
Anyway you can find the recipe at HealthyVeganRecipes.net
and be sure to check out all of the videos
of our travels both cooking and the cities
that we visited at HealthyVeganRecipes.net/Europe.
