Mixed Berry Crisp

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A premix of classical streusel and oats -- with a twist -- tops this classical effect dessert.

If you usage 2 teaspoons of cornstarch successful the filling, it volition beryllium juicy but not precise runny. For a much free-flowing syrup, usage 1 1/2 teaspoons of cornstarch.

The sweetener magnitude has a wide range, but past berries do, too, truthful this has to beryllium a substance of sensation and tasting.

Dorie Greenspan bakes the crisp successful a modular 9-inch Pyrex pastry plate, but it tin spell into a rectangular cookware oregon a souffle dish. The baking clip mightiness alteration slightly, but the ocular clues marque it casual to archer erstwhile the crisp is done.

About the topping: You tin premix the ingredients unneurotic and usage the topping arsenic soon arsenic it’s chilled, but Dorie prefers to pre-bake astir fractional of the topping, truthful it gets crunchy and nubbly. The operation of baked and unbaked topping provides a large play of textures. It’s an other step, truthful it’s optional.

Serve plain, oregon with vanilla crystal cream, plain Greek-style yogurt, sweetened whipped pick oregon crème fraîche, if you like.

The topping needs to beryllium refrigerated for astatine slightest 1 hr and up to 2 days. The pre-baked topping tin beryllium stored astatine country somesthesia for up to 2 days.

From cookbook writer Dorie Greenspan.

Ingredients

For the topping

  • 1 cupful flour
  • 1 cupful rolled oats (not quick-cooking)
  • 1/4 cupful packed airy brownish sugar
  • 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
  • 3/4 spoon good oversea salt
  • 1/2 spoon crushed cardamom, ginger, cinnamon oregon freshly grated nutmeg (optional)
  • 8 tablespoons (1 stick) precise acold unsalted butter, chopped into tiny pieces
  • 1 spoon vanilla extract

For the fruit

  • 1 1/2 pints (about 1 pound) caller blueberries
  • 1/2 pint (about 5 ounces) caller raspberries
  • 1/2 pint (about 5 ounces) caller blackberries
  • 1/4 cupful to 1/2 cupful granulated sweetener (see headnote)
  • Pinch good oversea salt
  • Finely grated zest of 1 citrus oregon lime (optional)
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons to 2 teaspoons cornstarch (see headnote)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (with 1/4 cupful sweetener successful the fruit)

  • Calories

    410

  • Fat

    17 g

  • Saturated Fat

    10 g

  • Carbohydrates

    62 g

  • Sodium

    310 mg

  • Cholesterol

    40 mg

  • Protein

    5 g

  • Fiber

    6 g

  • Sugar

    30 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From cookbook writer Dorie Greenspan.

Tested by Susan Liebenow.

Published June 16, 2015

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Updated March 15, 2026

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