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One of the most important skills you need to man a kitchen effectively is creative leftover management.
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Crispy Improv № 6
I made this crisp out of leftover fruit salad. It was a simple salad: pineapple, strawberry, lime zest, coconut. It was delicious leftover; I could’ve eaten it as-is, for the pineapple benefit alone. However, two of those fruits are common crisp candidates. The drupe and the other fruit are common crisp ingredients. So, turning this leftover salad into a crisp seemed obvious. The strawberries at first lent the most beautiful red color to the crisp, but eventually their juice rose to the top and formed a thick, strawberry jam. The lime, which was rather obvious in the salad, lost its identity in the crisp and became a strong, perfumy note in the pineapple.
What you’ll need to make 4 generous or 8 small servings:
For the filling:
2 lbs 4 oz. (about 6 cups) pineapple-strawberry-lime salad
3¾ oz. white sugar (about ¾ cup)
1⅛ oz. all-purpose flour (about 3 Tbs)
For the topping:
1⅞ oz. old-fashioned or instant oats (about ¾ cup)
3⅜ oz. all-purpose flour (about ¾ cup)
4½ oz. brown sugar (about ⅔ cup, packed)
1⅛ oz. coconut chips, or flaked sweetened coconut (about ⅔ cup)
1½ tsp cinnamon
⅜ teaspoon salt
3 oz. butter, melted (about ¾ stick, or ¼ cup + 2 Tbs)
Optional:
Ice cream or whipped cream, for serving
How to do it:
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Thoroughly combine the filling ingredients in a mixing bowl. Dump it into an 8×8″ baking dish and level it.
- In a clean bowl, mix the dry topping ingredients. Pour in the melted butter and stir to combine.
- Crumble the topping over the fruit.
- Bake uncovered for 1 hr 15 – 1 hr 20 minutes or until the crumble is browned, the filling is bubbling, and the bubbles look thick and syrupy. The fruit should offer little-to-no resistance to a fork. Err on the side of more time if in doubt.
- Serve barely warm or at room temperature (with ice cream or whipped cream).
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You like crisps? Pineapple? If so, you’ll flip for these other crisps!
Great use of leftover fruit salad! The crisp looks droolworthy.
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Thanks!
You know I have baking stoneware and I forgot how beautiful the clear Pyrex (I’m guessing ) can be to show off something like this. What a beauty and I’m a sucker for a Crisp. Nice!
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This has me drooling Jeff, great way to use up the leftovers of that super yummy tropical fruit salad from last week. Nice!
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Hi Jeff! This looks delicious per usual, question, I shy away from perfume tastes- rose, elderflower, so your mention that the lime perfumes the pineapple makes me wonder if I should shy away from this? Would love to know your thoughts there!
It’s distinctly perfumy. Search the site for pineapple mango crisp. (I’ll link to it when I get a moment.) Keith says it’s the best dessert I’ve ever made.
Thanks for clarifying Jeff! The pineapple mango crisp sounds amazing!
Genius idea here, Jeff! We always have a really random assortment of leftovers in the fridge…and we’ve realized tacos make a great vessel for leftovers. Not sure fruit salad tacos sound that good though. I’m definitely on board with turning it into a crisp instead!
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Hmm. Fruit tacos … or … wait for it … taco crisp!
Is it wrong of me to think this would make a decent breakfast, as well? There are oats in it, after all 🙂
Have a cup of coffee with it and I think you’re good to go.
Having just read the previous post I see the genius in your thinking clearly. GREG
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Love crisp! And we’re getting into crisp season. Never have used fruit salad in it, though — neat idea. The pineapple is particularly nice. Thanks!
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You’re welcome!
What is there not to love this, craving for a piece!
Thank you! It’s crisp weather; I can’t wait to get back to making them!