Cardamom Pear Crisp for the Dessert Plate

Cardamom Pear Crisp for the Dessert Plate keeps the shopping list focused on unsalted butter melted, rolled oats, and light brown sugar packed. It serves 2 people.

Count on 30 minutes of prep, 45 minutes of cooking, about 1 hour from the first measurement to the plate.

Ingredients Method

What goes in the bowl

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

For the Pear Filling

• 2 bartlett pears ripe but not soft (about 2 cups)
• ⅛ teaspoon cardamom
• ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 ½ teaspoons sugar
• pinch kosher salt
• ½ teaspoon cornstarch

How the cooking goes

Make your crisp topping

1. Heat your oven to 350℉ and ready two small pie dishes or a small baking dish (see Helpful Tools note).
2. Blend all topping ingredients in a medium mixing 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

1. Core and chop pears into a medium dice. You did not peel mine and you loved the added flavor and texture. The most important thing is that the pieces are relatively uniform in size.
2. In a medium bowl, mix the chopped pears with all the remaining filling ingredients. Pour into your baking dish. You find that it's helpful to do a quick taste test before you add the cornstarch.
3. 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.
4. Oven-bake in preheated oven for 25-45 minutes or until the filling is bubbling and the topping is crisp!
5. Allow it to cool 10 minutes before digging in! Top with vanilla ice cream and enjoy!

After it comes off the heat

Give the plate the rest the method asks for. Cover leftovers and refrigerate them when the dish includes meat, eggs, or dairy.

If you want another plate from Crisps and crumbles, open Individual Blueberry Raspberry Crumbles for the Dessert Plate and Berry Crumble for the Dessert Plate.