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Pear and Muscato Grape Crisp

Pears means fall and so are dessert crisps. I combined two fall ingredients, pears and muscato grapes, and they make perfect companions. Use any beautiful dark grape for a contrast and a deeper flavor to your dish.

Course Fall
Cuisine California Greek
Keyword crisp, dessert, muscato grapes, pear
Servings 8
Author Mary Papoulias-Platis

Ingredients

Topping

  • 1 cup old fashion oats
  • 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 stick unsalted butter, chilled and cut into small cubes

Filling

  • 6 large ripe pears, peeled, cored, and cut into 1-inch pieces. (cups)
  • 1 tablespoon cornstarch
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 2 bunches of Muscato grapes - 4 cups

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Butter a 12 x 8 baking pan.

Topping

  1. Mix the oats, flour, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt in a food processor.
  2. Pulse for 30 seconds to blend. Add the butter, and pulse until blended.

Crisp

  1. Place the pears, grapes, sugar, cornstarch and nutmeg in a large bowl and gently stir to combine.
  2. Spread in the buttered dish.
  3. Add the topping.
  4. Bake in the center of the oven until golden brown, about 35 minutes.
  5. Let rest for 10 minutes.
  6. Serve warm.