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Apple Blueberry Crumble

4 medium-large apples, peel on or off, cored and chopped into bitesize pieces (I used Granny Smith, peeled)
1 heaping cup blueberries, fresh or frozen
1/4 cup apple juice
1 Tbsp. turbinado sugar (can subsitute brown sugar – 1 Tbsp. will leave fruit distinctly tart. If you like it sweeter, add another Tbsp.)

2/3 cup whole wheat flour (I used about 1 cup white whole wheat and 1/3 cup unbleached)
2/3 cup unbleached white flour (or use all whole wheat)
1/3 cup unsalted butter (can substitute regular butter or margarine) (I used 1/2 cup regular butter – probably a little more than needed)
1/2 cup turbinado sugar (can substitute brown sugar, but turbinado will give a fun ‘crunch’)
3 Tbsp. rolled oats (can increase to 1/4 cup if omitting some or all of the seeds)
3 Tbsp. sunflower seeds (optional)
1 Tbsp. sesame seeds (optional)

Place chopped apple in bottom of 2 quart baking dish or 8 x 8 pan. Sprinkle blueberries over top. Pour over apple juice and sprinkle sugar over top.

In medium size bowl, measure and stir together flour. Cut butter with pastry cutter or knife and rub into flour until the mixture looks like coarse crumbs. Add sugar, oats, and optional seeds. Stir all together and sprinkle over the top of the apples and blueberries in an even layer.

Bake at 350*F for 35 minutes until top is beginning to brown. (You may also want to check the apples for tenderness using a fork or knife).

A note on turbinado sugar if you haven’t used it before: Turbinado sugar has large crystals which do not dissolve quickly or easily. This means the turbinado sugar in with the apples/juice will dissolve, but the turbinado in the topping will not melt and seep down to sweeten the apples to nearly the extent as normally happens in a regular apple crisp. Also, due to this, the sugar will retain its distinctive crunch, which in this case, I really like! (though not so much in muffins and cake!)

Try this recipe with other fruits, or seeds / nuts in the top crumble layer. I think raspberries would go deliciously well with apples. Blueberries with peaches. Pears with walnuts on top…..