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    Gluten Free Rhubarb Strawberry Crisp

    Published: Apr 5, 2024 by Cinde LittleThis post may contain affiliate links4 Comments

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    Gluten free Rhubarb Strawberry Crisp is a perfect spring dessert and changing the fruit combinations turns it into a year round recipe. For gluten free you simply need to learn a few tweaks to get fruit crisp back on your list of easy go-to desserts.

    A pan of Rhubarb Strawberry Crisp surrounded by a tea towel with a maple leaf pattern.

    Canadians love rhubarb. It comes up in the garden early and grows all summer long in back lanes and gardens everywhere. Just like zucchini gardeners give it away and cooks dream up creative uses for it. As well as this crisp I make rhubarb muffins and coffee cake every year. More unusual recipes are barbecue sauce and punch.

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    • Gluten Free Rhubarb Strawberry Crisp

    Ingredients

    Gluten free cooks thicken the fruit base with cornstarch and use safe gluten free oats for the crunchy topping. Family and friends who want to cook for you want to know what desserts they can make. This is one they can safely make with those two tips.

    • rhubarb
    • strawberries
    • sugar
    • cornstarch
    • gluten free oats
    • EGFG gluten free flour blend (sweet rice flour, potato starch, sorghum flour, millet flour)
    • brown sugar
    • cinnamon
    • butter

    See recipe card for exact amounts.

    Substitutions

    Cornstarch - If you can't tolerate corn, tapioca starch is a good substitute used in a 2:1 ratio. In this recipe replace 3 tablespoons of cornstarch with 6 tablespoons of tapioca starch.

    Gluten free flour & rice free option - Whenever you substitute a different gluten free flour blend the results will be different. Your job is to pay attention to the blends you're using and what you like or dislike. This is how you'll learn to bake things you love that everyone wants to eat.

    If you like to experiment with different flour blends I explain in detail how I do that in these two posts, Banana Muffins and Granola Bars. If you have a rice free blend try it.

    Since oats is the base of the dish a good choice for a single flour would be oat flour. Sorghum flour, often used as substitute for oat flour, is another good option.

    Variations

    The Brits call this dessert a crumble and it is exactly the same as a crisp. Variations of fruit crisp are a fruit cobbler or a grunt.

    Cobbler - To make a fruit cobbler change the crunchy oatmeal topping to a biscuit dough. By blobbing the raw dough over the fruit base the cooked topping has a cobbled look thus the name. Bake it exactly the same as the crisp.

    Grunt - A grunt is simply a cobbler cooked on the stove instead of in an oven. That makes it ideal for camping but I haven't done that for a very long time.

    Best fruit combinations for crisp:

    • Any berry combination all spring and summer (my mom always includes rhubarb).
    • Peaches and blueberries, blackberries or raspberries in late summer when peaches are at their best.
    • Just apples or apples and blueberries in late summer and early fall.
    • Apples and/or pear with cranberries from October into the new year.

    Individual Serving Size - Portion this dessert into individual ramekins then bake as directed. This is more work up front then easy to serve.

    Gluten Free Lifestyle: Understanding Safe Oats

    Living gluten free means learning about food manufacturing, labeling laws and so much more. Finding and following credible resources is key and helps you avoid getting drawn in to a Facebook fallacy.

    • Tricia Thompson over at Gluten Free Watchdog, investigates and shares excellent information on all things gluten free. Her post Oats produced under a gluten-free purity protocol: Listing of suppliers and manufacturers, outlines what gluten free cooks need to know.
    • For a detailed conversation about the process of growing safe gluten free oats listen to Episode 79: News From Only Oats on A Canadian Celiac Podcast.
    • Listening to podcasts is the best way to keep up on the never ending changes in the gluten free space. Episode 271: Only Oats is Back, is an example of the challenges food manufacturers face and ongoing changes companies make to provide us with safe gluten free food.

    Top Tip

    Let family and friends who want to cook for you know they too can buy safe oats. These buying choices support manufacturers that the gluten free community depends on. Here are a few options for gluten free oats.

    • Montana Gluten Free Raw Oatmeal
    • Bob's Red Mill Old Fashioned Oats
    • Nature's Path Organic Oats
    • A Canadian line of oat products, Only Oats

    If you're new to gluten free you can find more on oats and oat products in this post, Gluten Free Whole Oats vs Quick Oats.

    A pan of Rhubarb Strawberry Crisp surrounded by a tea towel with a maple leaf pattern.

    Gluten Free Rhubarb Strawberry Crisp

    Rhubarb Strawberry Crisp is a perfect spring and summer dessert, especially when served warm with ice cream. Vary the fruit and you've got a year round dessert everyone will love!
    5 from 1 vote
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    Course: Dessert
    Cuisine: American, Canadian
    Keyword: gluten free fruit crisp, gluten free rhubarb crisp, Rhubarb Strawberry Crisp
    Prep Time: 20 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 55 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 1 hour hour 15 minutes minutes
    Servings: 8 people
    Calories: 249kcal
    Author: Cinde Little

    Ingredients

    FRUIT CRISP

    • 3 cups chopped rhubarb , fresh or frozen
    • 2 cups strawberries , thickly sliced or quartered
    • ½ cup sugar
    • 3 tablespoon cornstarch

    Gluten Free Oat Topping

    • 1 cup gluten free whole oats
    • ⅓ cup EGFG gluten free flour blend* (or oat flour)
    • ¼ cup brown sugar
    • 2 tablespoon white sugar
    • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
    • 6 tablespoon butter, room temperature
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    Instructions

    • Preheat oven to 350°F.
    • Combine rhubarb and strawberries in a large bowl.
    • Sprinkle sugar and cornstarch over the fruit. Stir using a spatula until evenly combined.
    • Transfer to an ungreased 8-inch square glass baking pan. Set aside while you make the topping.

    STREUSEL TOPPING

    • In a medium bowl combine oats, flour, sugars and cinnamon.
    • Using your hands or a pastry cutter, squish the butter into the dry ingredients until evenly mixed.
    • Spread the streusel evenly over the fruit without packing it down.
    • Bake in preheated oven for 45-55 minutes until the topping is golden and the fruit juices are bubbling around the edges. Let cool for 10-15 minutes before serving.
    • Serve warm with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.

    Notes

    *EGFG flour blend: 300g sweet rice flour, 300g potato starch, 200g sorghum flour, 200g millet flour (makes ~8 cups)
    Vary the fruit combinations with what's in season.
      • Any berry combination all spring and summer (my mom always includes rhubarb).
      • Peaches and blueberries, blackberries or raspberries in late summer when peaches are at their best.
      • Just apples or apples and blueberries in late summer and early fall.
      • Apples and/or pear with cranberries from October into the new year.

    Nutrition

    Nutrition Facts
    Gluten Free Rhubarb Strawberry Crisp
    Amount Per Serving (1 person)
    Calories 249 Calories from Fat 90
    % Daily Value*
    Fat 10g15%
    Saturated Fat 6g38%
    Trans Fat 0.3g
    Polyunsaturated Fat 1g
    Monounsaturated Fat 2g
    Cholesterol 23mg8%
    Sodium 73mg3%
    Potassium 236mg7%
    Carbohydrates 40g13%
    Fiber 3g13%
    Sugar 25g28%
    Protein 3g6%
    Vitamin A 314IU6%
    Vitamin C 25mg30%
    Calcium 63mg6%
    Iron 1mg6%
    * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

    Let me know in the comments below if you made this Rhubarb Strawberry Crisp or if you have a favourite fruit combination.

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    1. Rosanns

      June 08, 2025 at 3:27 pm

      5 stars
      I made this with frozen strawberries, was amazing. Thank you

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      • Cinde Little

        June 09, 2025 at 9:02 pm

        Thank you Rosanns, I'm so glad you found the recipe and liked it. Strawberries are perfect for spring!

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    2. Martha

      April 07, 2022 at 4:58 am

      I grow Rhubarb in my garden. I wish I could print off your recipes but every time I click on the print icon it comes up a light grey. I can't see it well enough when I print it off....Love your recipes!

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      • Cinde Little

        April 08, 2022 at 10:02 am

        Hi Martha and thank you for your kind words! Yes, you definitely need to print recipes. I print my recipes all the time and do not see those colours. I'm in the process of moving ALL 300+ recipes over to a new format, what you see in the last 10 posts or so. The older recipes are being updated as I make them and by category. In the meantime I'll email you to help get it sorted out...it's got to be a setting. 🙂

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