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Apple and Blueberry Crumble

Apple and Blueberry Crumble

Mamta Gupta

Dessert Easy Sweet Vegetarian

This is a variation one of the popular English dessert, namely Apple crumble. Amount of crumble can be a little more or less, depending upon how much you like it.

Serves 8 people.

Ingredients

  • For the fruit mix
  • 2 Granny Smith (cooking) apples (500 gm). If you do not have cooking apples, use any apples that are tart, NOT too sweet.
  • 1 punnet of Blueberries. You can use a packet of frozen Blueberries
  • Juice of 1/2 a lemon
  • 2 tablespoons light brown or white sugar
  • For the crumble
  • 200- 250 gm. white flour or maida
  • 125 gm. unsalted butter, cut into small pieces, at room temperature , use oil for vegans
  • 100 gm. rolled oats. If you do not have them, use all white flour (100 gm.)
  • 3-4 tbsp. light brown sugar, adjust to taste.
  • Custard or vanilla ice-cream or double (heavy) cream for serving

Instructions

  1. Peel, core and chop apples into 1-2 inch pieces. Sprinkle lemon juice on it to stop discolouration.
  2. Cook apples with 2 tablespoons of water, until soft, but not mashed. These days, I steam them in a microwave oven with 1 tablespoon of water, for 3-4 minutes.
  3. Place cooked apples in a pie dish, add and mix blueberries and 2 tablespoon of sugar. Taste and add more, if needed.
  4. Turn oven on to 375F, 180C (10C less in fan oven) or Gas mark 4-5.
  5. Place flour and butter in a bowl and rub with your fingers, until the mixture looks like bread crumbs. You can do this in a food processor.
  6. Add oats and brown sugar. Mix well using your fingers.
  7. Spread evenly and lightly on top of the apple and berries mixture, covering completely.
  8. Bake for 30-35 minutes, until the topping looks golden brown and the fruit bubbles through in a few places.
  9. Serve hot with fresh custard or double cream or vanilla ice-cream.

Notes

  • You can use ready made crumble mix to make this recipe even easier.
  • For making a pie instead of a crumble, you can cover it with short crust or puff pastry in place of crumble and then bake it as usual.
This recipe was originally created Dec 3, 2009 and last updated Apr 27, 2024

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