I’m always so excited to start eating fresh local produce in the spring. Along with asparagus, rhubarb is one of the first things I can pluck from my garden shortly after the weather starts to get warm.
Eating local produce is good for so many reasons. Food found close to home is always at it’s freshest and most nutrient dense. This means it tastes the best and is better for you. Amazingly, honey is one food that is produced locally that doesn’t spoil or lose nutrition even after it’s stored for years, meaning that it’s available year round.
Strawberries and rhubarb are the perfect compliment for one another, and adding honey sweetens the combination even more. This dessert is easy enough to make on a weeknight, and perfect for sharing with friends and family on the weekend. This recipe fills an 8×8 dish, but can be easily doubled for a larger amount.
Ingredients
| 3 cups | rhubarb, peeled and chopped |
| 3 cups | strawberries, sliced |
| 3 tbsp | arrowroot starch (cornstarch and tapioca flour work as well) |
| 1/2 tsp | cinnamon |
| 1/2 cup | honey |
| TOPPING | |
| 1/2 cup | sugar |
| 1/2 cup | flour (all purpose or gluten free 1-1) |
| 1/2 cup | oats |
| 1/3 cup | butter |
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Add chopped strawberries and rhubarb to a 8×8 or 9×9 baking dish.
- Sprinkle the fruit with arrowroot starch and cinnamon and stir until it is mixed through.
- Add honey to the fruit mixture and stir until it is well combined.
- In a separate bowl, add sugar, flour and oats. Mix these ingredients together with a spoon or spatula.
- Cut butter into small cubes and add to the flour/sugar mixture. Blend the butter in with a pastry cutter, or your hands until the butter is in small chunks and mixed evenly into the flour, sugar and oats.
- Sprinkle the topping evenly over the fruit mixture in the baking dish.
- Bake for about 45 minutes until the fruit is cooked and bubbly and the topping is lightly browned.
- Serve warm over ice cream, or at room temperature with a scoop of whipped cream. Enjoy!
