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Apple nachos

After school when he wants something that feels like a treat.

Servings
1
Total
5 min
Skill
Easy

What you need

Ingredients

Making for

1 serving

  • Apples1 each
  • Peanut butter2 tbsp
  • Granola0.25 cup
  • Dark chocolate chips0 cup

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Steps

  1. 1

    Slice thin and fan them out

    One apple into thin slices, spread flat on a plate rather than piled. This is a presentation trick and it is most of the recipe: the same apple and peanut butter, arranged like nachos, gets eaten when a whole apple does not.

  2. 2

    Warm the peanut butter so it drizzles

    Two tablespoons in a small bowl, 15 seconds in the microwave, stirred. Warm it pours in a thin stream over everything instead of sitting in one lump on one slice.

    0:15

  3. 3

    Toppings, sparingly

    A tablespoon of granola for crunch, a few dark chocolate chips, a sprinkle of cinnamon. Sparingly is doing work here, because past a point this stops being fruit with peanut butter.

Coach's notes

  • Same food as apple and peanut butter, which is already on this site, arranged differently. That is not a criticism, it is the entire point.
  • Eaten immediately. It does not pack, and drizzled peanut butter in a lunchbox is a mess.
  • About 12 g of protein and 6 g of fibre.
  • A crisp apple matters more here than usual, because the slices are thin. Honeycrisp or Fuji.