UK-grown apples are in season from September to the end of the year. Many are perfect for enjoying on their own as a delicious, healthy, energy-boosting snack.
Cooking apples are too sour to be eaten raw, but when used as an ingredient they can be transformed into some of the nation’s favourite desserts. In this recipe traditional apple crumble gets a healthy makeover. It couldn't be simpler to make and it’s one of your 5 A DAY ...
Skills Check
Follow a recipe; follow food safety & hygiene rules; tidy away; cut using bridge/claw technique safely; use measuring spoons; use hob/oven (with adult supervision).
Allergens
Gluten | Milk | Sulphites
(Please note the allergens listed are indicative only. Allergens vary depending on brand; check the labels on the products you use.)
Equipment
Knife, chopping board, measuring spoons, spoon, bowl, baking dish, oven gloves.
Ingredients (makes 2 portions):
- 1 large cooking apple
- Squirt of lemon juice
- Small handful raisins (~20g)
- 1 wheat biscuit (e.g. weetabix), crushed
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 knob / dessertspoon of butter or margarine
- 1 teaspoon runny honey
Method
- Preheat the oven to 160°C (gas mark 3).
- Wash the apple and cut in half vertically, then cut out the core. Place in an oven dish, with apple skin facing downwards.
- Squirt lemon juice over the apple flesh.
- Sprinkle on the raisins, dividing between the two apple halves.
- Mix the cinnamon into the crushed wheat biscuit and sprinkle the mixture over the two apple halves.
- Dot the cereal topping with the margarine and drizzle with honey.
- Bake in the oven for around 20 minutes, until the apple is tender and the topping golden.
So thinking about Apple Scrunchie ...
Apples are high in fibre and are packed with lots of different substances called phytochemicals. Phytochemicals can help protect our bodies against disease.
Wheat Biscuits are high in fibre and have a number of vitamins and minerals (including iron) added to them. They are low in fat, sugar and salt.
Nutritional Information
| - | Energy | 661KJ/157kcal | 8% |
| Low | Fat | 4.5g | 6% |
| Low | Saturates | 0.9g | 5% |
| Med | Sugars | 19.0g | 21% |
| Low | Salt | 0.2g | 3% |
per half baked apple
% of an adult's reference intake
Typical values per 100g: Energy 396KJ / 94kcal
Notes
A traffic light system is used on nutrition labels to make it easier to see which foods and drinks are lower in calories, fat, sugar and salt. Try and choose more ‘greens’ and ‘ambers’ and fewer ‘reds’, and stick to smaller portions of ‘reds’.
Just because a recipe or a food has a red traffic light doesn't mean you shouldn't eat it. Understanding why a food or recipe might have a red light can be helpful. For example oily fish is high in total fat and so any recipe containing oily fish is likely to be ‘red’ for fat. But it is recommended that we eat oily fish at least once a week because the type of fat it contains is beneficial for our health.
% Reference Intakes are also shown. Reference Intakes are guidelines about the approximate amount of particular nutrients and energy required for a healthy diet (based on an average-sized woman doing an average amount of physical activity). Most children will require less than these Reference Intakes. The contribution of one serving of a food or drink to the Reference Intake for each nutrient is expressed as a percentage.
