Tart rhubarb balances candy, jammy strawberry taste on this irresistible springtime dessert. If you’ll find rhubarb, you’re in for a deal with!
This easy crisp recipe requires just some chopping and stirring and yields scrumptious outcomes after a 40-minute bake. I’ve modified my authentic recipe to name for my favourite oat and almond flour-based topping, which occurs to be gluten-free.
This taste mixture was impressed by my pal Stephanie. She makes the most effective strawberry rhubarb pie, and I’m nonetheless daydreaming in regards to the pie that impressed this recipe over ten years in the past. Stephanie has her flaky pie dough approach down pat and bakes pies for all events. Perhaps you might be fortunate sufficient to have a grasp pie maker in your life, too.
I’m not Stephanie and I don’t bake pies. I barely have the foresight or endurance to relax pie dough, although I’ve been engaged on my approach through the years. Crisps are gloriously simple. No ready. No fuss.
Carry your strawberries and rhubarb dwelling and activate the oven. This recipe is able to go! Make it when you can.
What’s rhubarb?
Rhubarb is an fascinating vegetable within the buckwheat household. It’s in season from mid-spring to early summer time. In its uncooked state, rhubarb is sort of bitter (the leaves are toxic, so by no means eat them or give them to your canine). Nonetheless, as soon as cooked or baked with a sweetener, it turns into pleasantly tart and irresistible.
I like to sweeten my rhubarb with strawberries and honey, each of which enhance the rhubarb. Happily, strawberries are in season concurrently rhubarb. Candy, purple, ripe strawberries and tart rhubarb are a magical mixture.
Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp Ideas & Notes
This recipe is easy—you’ll discover a quick video beneath and the total recipe on the backside of the submit. Earlier than you get began, listed here are a few notes.
Sweetness stage
I’ve provided a spread of honey so you possibly can modify the recipe to the sweetness of your strawberries (and your personal preferences). You’ll be pleased with the decrease quantity in the event you typically like tartness and like your desserts on the much less candy facet. In case your strawberries usually are not notably flavorful, you could wish to use extra honey to counter the rhubarb. Do not forget that including vanilla ice cream to your bowl will contribute fairly a little bit of sweetness and mood the tartness, and the crisp will style sweeter on day two.
Recipe changes
This yr, I’ve adjusted the recipe to make use of my almond and oat topping, which is crisp but tender and simply beautiful. You’ll discover the unique crisp topping particulars within the recipe notes when you have been making this for years and wish to stick to the unique. I’ve additionally added a few tablespoons of lemon or orange juice to the filling, which ramps up the rhubarb and strawberry flavors. Lastly, I’ve elevated the arrowroot starch to make the filling much less soupy than proven in these photographs, although it was completely good as-is.
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Begin with this strawberry rhubarb in late spring, then prepare dinner these fruity crisps this summer time.
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Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp
- Writer: Cookie and Kate
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook dinner Time: 40 minutes
- Whole Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 8 1x
- Class: Dessert
- Methodology: Baked
- Delicacies: American
- Food regimen: Gluten Free
This easy crisp recipe is bursting with candy, juicy strawberries and tart rhubarb. Made with honey, oats and yogurt, this crisp is healthier than most. That stated, please serve it with vanilla ice cream for dessert (or yogurt for breakfast)!
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Elements
Strawberry-Rhubarb Filling
- 1 pound strawberries, hulled and sliced into small bite-sized items
- 1 pound rhubarb (4 to 6 stalks), lower into ¼ by ½-inch items (slice bigger stalks in half lengthwise earlier than slicing them into ¼-inch broad items)
- ⅓ to ½ cup honey*
- 3 tablespoons arrowroot starch or cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice or orange juice
Gluten-free oat and almond topping
- 1 cup old school oats (licensed gluten-free for a gluten-free crisp)
- ½ cup packed almond flour
- ⅓ cup evenly packed coconut sugar or brown sugar
- ¼ teaspoon advantageous salt
- 4 tablespoons butter, melted
- 3 tablespoons plain yogurt (Greek or common) or further melted butter
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 levels Fahrenheit. In a 9-inch sq. baking dish, combine collectively the strawberries, rhubarb, honey, arrowroot and lemon juice.
- In a medium mixing bowl, stir collectively the oats, almond flour, sugar and salt. Combine within the butter and yogurt. Stir till all the flour is included and the combination is moistened all through.
- Dollop spoonfuls of the oat combination over the filling and use your fingers to interrupt up the combination till it’s evenly distributed (no must pack it down).
- Bake for 40 to 45 minutes, or till the filling is actively effervescent across the edges and the highest is evenly golden. Let the crisp relaxation for 10 minutes earlier than serving. Serve with vanilla ice cream (I insist!). Leftovers will preserve within the fridge, coated, for as much as 4 days.
Notes
*Sweetness stage be aware: The sweetness stage of this crisp will rely in your fruit. Since rhubarb will get sweeter through the baking course of, you possibly can’t actually modify in your desired sweetness earlier than baking. My first crisp was excellent with ⅓ cup honey and my second crisp was extra tart. If you already know you need your crisp to be on the candy facet, go together with ½ cup honey. In case your baked crisp is bitter, remember that serving with ice cream will mood the tartness. Add a drizzle of honey to the completed product if obligatory. It’ll most likely style sweeter the subsequent day.
Make it nut free: Use ¾ cup complete wheat flour and ¾ cup oats as an alternative of the oats and almond meal specified above. It’ll now not be gluten free.
Edits: On Could 20, 2024, I changed the topping with my favourite gluten-free topping. See the unique offered within the nut-free be aware above. I additionally added lemon juice to the filling and elevated the quantity of arrowroot by one tablespoon.
Wait, what’s arrowroot starch? Arrowroot starch is a superb thickener to make use of instead of corn starch, which is commonly genetically modified. It’s gluten free, too. Search for it within the baking part of well-stocked grocery shops.
Rhubarb substitute: For those who can’t discover rhubarb, you possibly can substitute one other pound of strawberries (although the flavour shouldn’t be as fascinating). Higher but, make my Combined Berry Crisp (Gluten Free) or Blueberry Almond Crisp.
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