Reduced-Fat Apple Crisp

Name: Reduced-Fat Apple Crisp
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 2/3 cup (2 ounces; 57 grams), old-fashioned rolled oats; 1/3 cup, Grape-Nuts cereal; 5 tablespoons, packed light brown sugar; 1/4 cup (1 1/4 ounces; 35 grams), all-purpose flour; 3 tablespoons, unsalted butter, melted and cooled; 1/2 teaspoon, ground cinnamon; 1/8 teaspoon, salt; 6 large, Golden Delicious apples (8 ounces each), peeled, cored, and halved; 1 cup, apple juice; 2 tablespoons, packed light brown sugar; 3/4 teaspoon, ground cinnamon; 2 teaspoons, lemon juice

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2012

Desserts or Baked Goods

Light

Fruit Desserts

Would cutting fat and calories give us the chance to put the apples front and center?

SERVES6

TIME1¾ hours

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We mimicked the thick, sweet, sugary filling by treating the apples in two ways: We mashed some apples to thicken the sauce and sliced others for added texture. To cut down on calories, we traded the nuts for Grape-Nuts cereal.

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