The Wellness Care Blog: Healthy Fruit Crisp {Slow Cooker or Oven}

This Healthy Fruit Crisp can be made in the slow cooker or in the oven. It's low in added sugar and packed with fiber and healthy fats. Serve it over yogurt or cottage cheese for breakfast or with ice cream for dessert.

Healthy Fruit Crisp that can be made in the slow cooker or oven.

Hi friends!

If you follow me on Instagram Stories, you've seen us eating this Healthy Fruit Crisp for the past two weeks straight. I first made it in the slow cooker. It only takes two hours which means you can throw it in before you start dinner and it'll be ready for dessert. Then, I also tested it in the oven and it works equally well.

The first time I made it with a mix of blueberries and strawberries (since we had a surplus after we went strawberry picking). The next time I tested it with some nectarines thrown in and it was equally delicious. My biggest suggestion though is to always include some blueberries if you're serving it to picky kiddos like mine. The dark purple color helps camouflage the chia seeds and make them less noticeable.

Healthy Fruit Crisp served over cottage cheese and drizzle with peanut butter.

The great thing about this Healthy Fruit Crisp is that it works two ways. With only 2 Tbsp added sugar in the whole recipe, I feel good enough about it to serve it to Squish for breakfast. He loves it over plain yogurt or cottage cheese and he likes it both warm and cold. He also enjoys it warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top….but who wouldn't?!

Healthy Fruit Crisp made in the slow cooker.

Like I said, you can make this in the slow cooker in just a couple hours. Perfect for those summer days when you don't feel like heating up the kitchen with the oven. Or you can make it in the oven if you don't feel like dragging out the slow cooker. I think I have a slight preference for the oven version, but both are delicious!

Here's how you make it:

Healthy Fruit Crisp

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Preparation 5 min Cook Time 40 min Serves serves 4-6 adjust servings

Ingredients

5 cups mixed fruit (berries and stonefruits work best)
3 Tbsp chia seeds
3/4 cup rolled oats
1/4 cup white whole wheat flour
2 Tbsp sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
2 Tbsp ground flaxseed
1/2 tsp baking powder
1-2 Tbsp hemp seeds (optional)
2 Tbsp butter
1/4 cup peanut butter

Instructions

Chop fruit into bite-sized pieces.
Transfer to either a crockpot or a 9x9 pan lined with parchment paper.
Sprinkle with chia seeds and stir to combine. (You can also combine the fruit and chia seeds in a bowl but I find that a lot of the seeds stick to the bowl when you go to transfer it to the slow cooker or pan)
In a small bowl, combine oats, flour, sugar, cinnamon, flax, baking powder and hemp seeds and stir to combine.
Cut butter into small chunks and add to the flour mixture. Cut in with a pastry blender or two knives until mixture resembles coarse meal.
Add peanut butter and stir until coated with flour. Use your hands to mix everything together really well and crumble the peanut butter and butter so it combines with all of the flour and oats.
Sprinkle crumble mixture over top of fruit.
Cook at 350 for 40 minutes in the oven or 2-2.5 hours on high in the slow cooker.
Serve over yogurt or cottage cheese, or topped with ice cream.

by Lindsay

Recipe Notes

You could really use anywhere from 4-6 cups of fruit depending on how you like your topping to fruit ratio. If you use 6 cups of fruit, you could add 1 additional Tbsp of chia seeds.

Since there's minimal added sugar, the riper and sweeter the fruit is, the better.

Sounds delicious right?! It's one of my new favorites for sure!