Strawberry Pineapple Crisp

One of the most important skills you need to man a kitchen effectively is creative leftover management.

"Strawberry Pineapple Crisp," from Make It Like a Man!

Crispy Improv № 6

I made this crisp out of leftover fruit salad. It was a simple salad: pineapple, strawberry, lime zest, coconut. It was delicious leftover; I could’ve eaten it as-is, for the pineapple benefit alone. However, two of those fruits are common crisp candidates. The drupe and the other fruit are common crisp ingredients. So, turning this leftover salad into a crisp seemed obvious. The strawberries at first lent the most beautiful red color to the crisp, but eventually their juice rose to the top and formed a thick, strawberry jam. The lime, which was rather obvious in the salad, lost its identity in the crisp and became a strong, perfumy note in the pineapple.

What you’ll need to make 4 generous or 8 small servings:

For the filling:

2 lbs 4 oz. (about 6 cups) pineapple-strawberry-lime salad
3¾ oz. white sugar (about ¾ cup)
1⅛  oz. all-purpose flour (about 3 Tbs)

For the topping:

1⅞ oz. old-fashioned or instant oats (about ¾ cup)
3⅜ oz. all-purpose flour (about ¾ cup)
4½ oz. brown sugar (about ⅔ cup, packed)
1⅛ oz. coconut chips, or flaked sweetened coconut (about ⅔ cup)
1½ tsp cinnamon
⅜ teaspoon salt
3 oz. butter, melted (about ¾ stick, or ¼ cup + 2 Tbs)

Optional:

Ice cream or whipped cream, for serving

"Strawberry Pineapple Crisp," from Make It Like a Man!

How to do it:

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
  2. Thoroughly combine the filling ingredients in a mixing bowl. Dump it into an 8×8″ baking dish and level it.
  3. In a clean bowl, mix the dry topping ingredients. Pour in the melted butter and stir to combine.
  4. Crumble the topping over the fruit.
  5. Bake uncovered for 1 hr 15 – 1 hr 20 minutes or until the crumble is browned, the filling is bubbling, and the bubbles look thick and syrupy. The fruit should offer little-to-no resistance to a fork. Err on the side of more time if in doubt.
  6. Serve barely warm or at room temperature (with ice cream or whipped cream).

"Strawberry Pineapple Crisp," from Make It Like a Man!

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15 thoughts on “Strawberry Pineapple Crisp

  1. Hi Jeff! This looks delicious per usual, question, I shy away from perfume tastes- rose, elderflower, so your mention that the lime perfumes the pineapple makes me wonder if I should shy away from this? Would love to know your thoughts there!

    • It’s distinctly perfumy. Search the site for pineapple mango crisp. (I’ll link to it when I get a moment.) Keith says it’s the best dessert I’ve ever made.

  2. Genius idea here, Jeff! We always have a really random assortment of leftovers in the fridge…and we’ve realized tacos make a great vessel for leftovers. Not sure fruit salad tacos sound that good though. I’m definitely on board with turning it into a crisp instead!
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