Apple & Oats

I would love to be the kind of person who enjoys making breakfast. I'm not. The thing is, when I’m reading cookbooks I get a real craving for those healthy “Up And At ‘Em, Adam Ant!” kind of dishes. I just hate cooking in the morning. I do make American pancakes, but with a terrible irregularity. I love that golden stack, dripping with maple syrup, light and fluffy and sickly sweet. But that’s the problem: I love to eat it, I just don’t want to make it when I’ve just woken up.
However I have recently tried my hand at an apple granola dish, which I found extremely pleasing. Best of all, you make the separate parts the night before and just layer them in a dish in the morning.

Apple & Oats Crisp

4 or 5 apples of your choice (I like tart apples)
2 cups oats
0,5 cup grated coconut
0,5 cup almond flakes
4 tablespoons suger
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons golden syrup
75 grams butter

Peel and core the apples and cut them into smallish chunks, squeeze over some lemon juice and cover with the sugar and cinnamon. Put into a container and place in the fridge.
Mix the oats, almonds and coconut in a container.

In the morning: Melt the butter with the honey and golden syrup and stir in the oats mixture. Place the apples in an oven dish and layer the buttery oats on top. Place in a preheated oven, 200C, for about thirty minutes, until golden (if it colours too fast, cover with foil and remove it again for the last five minutes).

Serve a big, warm, sludgy yet crispy spoonful in a bowl.