APPLE PIE (no cooking required)

by | Oct 13, 2020 | recipes

For Sunday healthy dessert

CRUST

2 cups raw pecans or walnuts

¼ cup raisins

Pinch of sea salt

FILLING

6 apples, cored and peeled, chopped into chunks (honey crisp)

7-8 medjool dates pitted

1 tsp ground cinnamon

2 TBSP Juice of lemon, freshly squeezed

Pinch of nutmeg

2 TBSP chia seeds

TOPPING

¼ cup pecans or walnuts

¼ cup raw coconut sugar

1 tsp coconut oil warmed to a liquid

½ tsp ground cinnamon

 

PREPARATION

Crust

  1. Put all of the crust ingredients into a food processor fitted with S blade and pulse the mixture a few times and then process until it reaches crumbly and sticky consistency. Do not over process.
  2. Put mixture into a pie plate and press firmly and evenly with your hands to fill the bottom and the sides of the pie plate like you would with a regular pie crust.
  3. Transfer the plate into a freezer to set for 30minutes. 

 Filling

  1. Roughly chop 3 apples, add them to the food processor together with dates, cinnamon, nutmeg and lemon juice
  2. Pulse the mixture a few times then process for 3-4 minutes to get smooth consistency. You would have to stop the food processor a few times to scrape the sides.
  3. Pour mixture into a bowl and mix in the chia seeds.
  4. Chop the remaining 3 peeled and cored apples and chop them into very small pieces.
  5. Add apples to the liquid apple mixture in a bowl.
  6. Take out the apple crust from the freezer and fill the crust with the apple mixture.

Finishing touches:

Apple pie topping:

  1. Put all of the apple topping ingredients into a food processor. Pulse a few times (20-30) until you get coarse crumble.
  2. Sprinkle the topping over the pie.
  3. Transfer to a freezer to set for 1 hour. After that remove the pie and cut into slices.
  4. Store in the refrigerator.