Plum Crisp with Quinoa-Oat Topping
5
Points®
Total time: 1 hr • Prep: 15 min • Cook: 45 min • Serves: 8 • Difficulty: Easy
Juicy plums cook down until sweet and jammy in this easy dessert, with a hint of ground ginger to perk up their flavour. The topping includes a unique ingredient that you’re bound to love: quinoa. Uncooked quinoa toasts in a skillet until it tastes roasted, and is then combined with standard streusel ingredients of oats, flour, sugar, and butter. The quinoa increases the crunchiness of the topping in a similar way that dense nuts (like almonds) might do, but with an alluringly earthy, toasty flavour.
Ingredients
Cooking spray
4 spray(s)
Plum
2 pound(s), red, pitted and thinly sliced
Packed brown sugar
5 tbsp(s), divided
Cornstarch
2½ tbsp(s)
Ground ginger
½ tsp(s)
Uncooked old fashioned oats
⅔ cup(s)
All-purpose flour
2 tbsp(s)
Ground cinnamon
½ tsp(s)
Kosher salt
¼ tsp(s)
Uncooked quinoa
¼ cup(s)
Unsalted butter
2½ tbsp(s)
Instructions
1
Preheat oven to 350°F. In a large bowl, toss together plums, 1 tbsp sugar, cornstarch, and ginger. Spoon mixture into an 11 x 7–inch baking dish coated with nonstick spray. Bake for 20 minutes.
2
Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, stir together oats, flour, cinnamon, salt, and remaining ¼ cup sugar. Heat a small skillet over medium-high heat. Add quinoa to skillet; cook, shaking pan frequently, until lightly browned and toasty-fragrant, about 2 minutes. Add quinoa to oat mixture. Drizzle with butter and stir well to moisten.
3
Remove baking dish from oven. Increase oven temperature to 375°F. Sprinkle oat mixture over plum mixture. Bake until filling is bubbly and topping is browned, 25 minutes.
4
Serving size: about 1/2 cup
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