Think you can't beat a traditional apple crumble? Think again – the secret is all in the fruit. Here eating apples stay chunky, British bramleys cook down to a fruity sauce and pears add an aromatic sweetness.
Vegetarian
- Serves8
- CourseDessert
- Prepare25 mins
- Cook1 hr 5 mins
- Total time1 hr 30 mins
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Ingredients
- 3 bramley apples, peeled, cored and cut into chunks
- 3 seasonal eating apples such as early windsor, worcester or estivale (or use jazz or braeburn later in the year), peeled, cored and cut into chunks
- 2 tbsp cornflour
- 50g light brown muscovado sugar
- 1 lemon, zest and juice
- 4 conference pears (or use taylor’s gold or concorde later in the year), peeled, cored and cut into chunks
Crumble topping:
- 200g plain wholemeal flour
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- good grating fresh nutmeg
- 75g rolled oats
- 200g unsalted butter, chilled and diced
- 75g light brown muscovado sugar
- 75g demerara sugar, plus extra for sprinkling
- 100g hazelnuts, roughly chopped
Method
Preheat the oven to 160˚C, gas mark 3. Toss all the apples with the cornflour until it’s mostly absorbed, then place in a saucepan with the sugar, lemon juice and 200ml water. Cook for 5 minutes, until softened but not mushy, then turn off the heat, stir in the pears and lemon zest and tip into a baking dish (about 1-1.5 litres in volume).
For the topping, mix the flour, spices and oats in a bowl, then rub in the butter to a crumbly mixture. Stir in the sugars, hazelnuts and a pinch of salt, then scatter over the fruit. Sprinkle with a little extra demerara sugar and bake for 50-60 minutes, until golden.
Cook’s tip
Make itgluten-free
Swap the wholemeal flour for buckwheat flour and use gluten-free oats.
Nutritional
Typical values per serving when made using specific products in recipe
Energy | 2,487kJ/ 594kcals |
|---|---|
Fat | 30.4g |
Saturated Fat | 14.5g |
Carbohydrates | 73.3g |
Sugars | 47.5g |
Fibre | 7.4g |
Protein | 6.8g |
Salt | 0.1g |
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