Apple Zucchini Crisp

This recipe, Apple Zucchini Crisp, your favorite apples and garden fresh zucchini become a low-carb dessert that will have your family clamoring for seconds.

Apple Zucchini Crisp Recipe

Apple Zucchini Crisp

1 cup apples, peeled and thinly sliced

2 cups zucchini, peeled, halved and thinly sliced

¼ cup Splenda brown sugar

2 tsp. cinnamon, divided

A pinch of nutmeg

3 Tbsp. lemon juice

1/3 cup almond meal

1/3 cup sliced almond

1/3 cup chopped pecans

1 tsp. vanilla

¼ cup butter, melted

 

Preheat oven to 375 F.  Toss the apples, zucchini, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon and the lemon juice together.  Pour into an 8×8 inch baking dish.

Mix the brown sugar, remaining 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, nutmeg, almond meal, almonds and pecans together.

Stir in the vanilla in with the melted butter and pour over the nut mixture.  Mix well.

Crumble the nut mixture evenly over apples and zucchini.

Bake uncovered for 30 minutes.

Top with whipped cream, if desired.

 

(Recipe for Apple Zucchini Crisp, Diabetic Connect, 2015)