Rhubarb Breakfast Crisp
Tart rhubarb baked until jammy under a brown-sugar oat crumble, served warm with a big spoonful of Greek yogurt — dessert manners, breakfast credentials.
Ingredients
serves 6From the garden
- 5 cups rhubarb stalks, trimmed and sliced ½ inch thick (about 1½ pounds)
- 1 cup rolled oats — old-fashioned, not instant
From the pantry
- ⅔ cup granulated sugar — for the fruit
- 2 tbsp cornstarch
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup brown sugar — for the topping
- 6 tbsp butter, melted — plus more for the dish
- ¼ tsp salt
- plain Greek yogurt — to serve
Steps
tap a step to dim it as you go- Heat the oven to 375°F and butter an 8-inch baking dish. Toss the sliced rhubarb with the granulated sugar and cornstarch until evenly coated, then tip into the dish — it looks like a lot, but it slumps as it bakes.
- Stir the oats, flour, brown sugar, and salt together, then pour in the melted butter and mix until the crumble clumps when squeezed.
- Scatter the topping over the rhubarb in uneven clusters — the craggy bits are what get crunchy.
- Bake 35–40 minutes, until the topping is deep golden and pink juices bubble thickly at the edges. If the crumble browns before the fruit bubbles, it isn't done — the bubbling is the cornstarch thickening.
- Rest at least 15 minutes so the juices set from soupy to jammy, then spoon into bowls over thick yogurt, warm or at room temperature.