Crumb Topped Apple Pie

Crumb Topped Apple Pie

Ingredients:
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 lbs. Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, thinly sliced
2 lbs. Fuji apples, peeled, cored, thinly sliced
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice + 1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon ground clove
1/8 teaspoon ground allspice

1 (9-inch) unbaked pie crust

3/4 cup quick oats
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
7 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
Ground cinnamon, for sprinkling

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Melt the butter in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat; add Granny Smith apples and cook for 10 minutes, stirring frequently. Stir in Fuji apples and cook for 5 minutes. Remove pan from heat and cool for 10 minutes.

Stir brown sugar, lemon juice, lemon zest, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, clove and allspice into apples, until well combined; pour into pie crust.

In a medium-sized mixing bowl, stir together oats, flour, granulated sugar, baking powder and salt, until well combined. Knead butter into mixture, using fingertips, until combined and clumpy. Place mixture evenly over the top of apples. Sprinkle with cinnamon.

Bake pie at 375 degrees F, for 1 hour, or until golden brown.

Makes 8 servings