Blackberry and apple crumble
By: Rachel Allen From: Rachel's Favourite Food...
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Blackberry and apple crumble
- Prep time:
- 10 mins
- Cook time:
- 35 mins
- Serves:
- 6
Another simple, yet delicious classic from Rachel Allen, this time a heavenly autumnal dessert
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Tips and suggestions
- Cooks Tips...
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If you choose to leave out the berries, add ½ tsp ground cinnamon or a few cloves to the apple. You can also add oats to the crumble, or nuts, such as chopped pecans, walnuts or nibbed almonds. If you want to use less sugar, you can cook eating apples instead of the cooking variety, although they have a slightly less fluffy texture.
For a summer time rhubarb and strawberry crumble, just cook the rhubarb as you would for the rhubarb fool with strawberries, though you shouldn't reduce it as much; it should be a bit more juicy. Add the sliced strawberries - but not the cream - and cover with the crumble.
Ingredients
- 4 large cooking Apples, peeled, cored and cut into big chunks
- 1 tbsp water
- 3 tbsp Sugar
- 225g fresh or frozen Blackberries, or mixed berries
For the crumble:
- 170g plain flour
- 75g Butter
- 75g demerara sugar
Method
Preheat the oven to 180C/gas 4.Put the apple chunks, water and sugar into a saucepan over a lowish heat and cook until the apples are soft and mushy; this should take about 10 minutes. While cooking, stir it every minute or so to prevent sticking. Taste and add more sugar if it needs it.
Transfer the apple pulp into individual bowls or one big pie dish and allow to cool slightly. Stir the berries into the apples.
To make the crumble, rub the butter into the flour until it resembles very coarse breadcrumbs. However, if you rub it too much the crumble will not be crunchy. Combine with the sugar. Sprinkle the crumble mixture over the slightly cooled apple and bake for 15 mins for small crumbles or 30-45 mins for larger crumbles. Serve warm with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.
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View all comments (8)Great recipe. As an alternative healthier option to flour for the crumble, use poradge oats. Melt the butter and sugar in a pan over a low heat. Remove from heat. Add the porage oats and stir until well combined. Sprinkle on the fruit mix and bake for 35 to 40 minutes.
Absoslutely beautiful, i added some cinnamon when the apples were cooking. Delicious!!!
so easy to make and absolutely delicious we shared it between 5 of us and nothing got thrown away! would recomend it.
This recipe is excellent.
hey, the judges loved our crumble even though we didnt win. id just like to say thanks and im planning to use this recipe again soon.
hi i have entered a young chef competition at my school with my friend we are going to use this recipe for our desert. i hope it all goes well. bye.
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I dont usually eat desserts but my family cant get enough of them, i made this & tried some myself & i must say it was absolutely wonderful...