Cardamom Pear Crisp

Ingredients

For the Pear Filling:
• 2 bartlett pears, ripe but not soft (about 2 cups)
• 1/8 teaspoon cardamom
• ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 ½ teaspoons sugar
• ½ teaspoon cornstarch
• tiny pinch salt
For the Crisp Topping:
• ¼ cup unsalted butter, melted
• ½ cup rolled oats
• ½ cup light brown sugar, packed
• ½ cup all-purpose flour
• Dash cinnamon
Vanilla Ice Cream for serving, optional

Instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 350° and ready two small pie dishes or a small baking dish.*
Make your Crisp topping:
2. Combine all ingredients in a medium bowl and stir until the butter has coated everything. The mixture should be crumbly but not dry. If yours is a touch dry, add a bit more butter. Be careful because too much butter will make the topping greasy. Taste test. Sigh with pleasure. You can keep this covered with plastic wrap in the refrigerator until needed.
Prepare your filling:
3. Core and chop pears into a medium dice. I did not peel mine and I loved the added flavor and texture. The most important thing is that the pieces are relatively uniform in size.
4. In a medium bowl mix the chopped pears with all the remaining filling ingredients. With this filling, as well as with any fruit filling, I taste my fruit before adding the sugar and lemon juice. You may need more or less sugar than I have written. Start with 1 teaspoon, mix everything together (except the cornstarch) and then taste. Add additional sugar as desired. Pour into your baking dish.
5. Remove the crisp topping from the fridge and crumble over the top of the entire dish, squeezing the mixture as you go so that it forms some large and small crumbles. If you don’t want to use all the topping, that is fine. It will keep, covered tightly in plastic wrap, in the refrigerator for a week.
6. Bake in preheated oven for 25-45 minutes or until the filling is bubbling and the topping is crisp!
7. Let cool 10 minutes before digging in! Top with vanilla ice cream and enjoy!

Notes:

https://cheflindseyfarr.com/cardamom-pear-crisp/

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