Name: Healthy Plum Crumble With Oats
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Gluten Free
Ingredients: 2 cups plums; 1 1/2 cups oats, ground; 1 1/2 cups almond flour; 7 tbsp coconut oil; 1 tsp cinnamon; 3-4 tbsp maple syrup; 1-2 tbsp water

Plums, plums, plums! That’s what I’ve been thinking about for the last week and now I’ve found another way to use this delicious, sweet and super healthy fruit! I made a flourless healthy plum crumble with oats, nuts, with no refined sugar and with more fruit. It’s super easy and the crumble is so good for breakfast or dessert. One of my favorite plum recipes at the moment and it’s gluten-free too.

You can have it for dessert with some ice cream, or even for breakfast with milk and some coffee or tea. I baked it into, well, kinda like a pie or plum crumble bars, but you can also just put the plums on the bottom and top with the oat crumble. Either way, it will be delicious!

Why You’ll Love This Healthy Plum Crumble

This plum crumble recipe is:

easy to make
healthy
super tasty
great dessert or breakfast
fun to make!

Yes, I know what the word “fun” means. I made the crumble with my five-year-old and he was just so happy. He kept nibbling on the plums and the raw crumble – no eggs in there, so I wasn’t freaking out and yelling like a crazy person.

Fine, it was super stressful. Especially when he decided he will stone the plums with a KNIFE. But also, so cute and rewarding and so so worth it!

Healthy Plum Crumble Ingredients

Oats. Since we’ll be grinding them, you can use rolled or fine oats. I usually use fine oats for baking.

Plums. Choose ripe, sweet plums for this crumble. Any variety or color you have available to you will work for this recipe. We had picked these red/orange plums for free from some tree on the street, so that’s what we were working with.

Almond flour. Fine almond flour, together with ground oats and coconut oil make great crumbly texture, kinda like shortbread. I already made a recipe for shortbread cookies using both and it was my obsession for a long, long time. If you don’t have almond flour, you can also use whole nuts and grind them together with the oats.

Coconut oil. Coconut oil is absolutely necessary to make the plum crumble. Otherwise, the result will not be buttery, but dry…You can also use butter, but I had a lot of coconut oil, so that’s what I used.

Cinnamon. I love cinnamon with plums, but feel free to omit if it’s not for you. You can also use vanilla here.

How To Make Flourless Plum Crumble With Oats

Start with the plums. Wash them, cut in halves, stone them, then cut once more, so that they’re in quarters. Then put them into a pan with cinnamon and coconut oil. Heat up for 5 minutes, stir, so that they’re covered with cinnamon.

Now leave the plums alone, because it’s time to make some oat flour in your blender (or food processor). You can also use coffee or nut grinder to make a more fine oat flour. If you’re not using almond flour, you can grind the whole nuts together with the oats.

Mix that oat flour with almond flour, maple syrup and coconut oil until you get a crumbly dough that sticks together. You can also add a tablespoon or so of water, but do not overdo it, because the result will not be as “buttery”. It will just have a different texture.

Preheat your oven to 180C/350F.

If you want to make it into crumble bars, as I did, line a small baking pan with parchment paper then spread half of the oat dough in the pan. Press with your hands from the middle to the sides. Reserve the other half of the dough for the topping. If you’re just wanting the crumble – skip this step.

Next, spread the plums all over the pan / the crust.

Then top with the crumble dough, pressing the dough between your fingers to make crumbles of the size you desire.

Place the pan into the oven and bake at 180°C or 350F until the plum crumble is golden-brown. It took me around 30 minutes, but as you might know, ovens are different, so it might take yours a little bit less or more time.

The plum crumble is ready!

How To Serve

In my opinion, this plum crumble is amazing as it is (said the person who made the recipe).

However! You can make it even BETTER with some simple additions and adjustments:

heat up in the oven before serving for best results
serve with vanilla ice cream for dessert
serve with your favorite milk or yogurt of choice for breakfast
Optionally, you can also drizzle some peanut or almond butter on top

My favorite way to enjoy this plum dessert is, to the surprise to nobody, hot with a little bit of simple vanilla ice cream on top. It is so tasty!

How To Store

Keep the crumble in the fridge for 3-4 days in an airtight container.

This recipe will probably also freeze well, but I haven’t had the chance to test it yet! As mentioned, don’t forget to heat up before serving.

More Easy Crumble Recipes With Oats:

I hope you enjoy this simple and delicious plum crumble with oats whenever you decide to have it!