We're getting a bit impatient for them to ripen because one of our favourite recipes is apple crumble. We made this last year and it's a delicious comfort treat when the weather is turning colder and the days are getting shorter. This recipe is courtesy of Merrilees Parker on the BBC website and it's one of the simplest ones we found.
A good trick (and we were caught out a few times) is to only peel and cut the apples at the very last minute. As soon as you cut the apples they turn brown and though this doesn't affect the taste it doesn't look very attractive.
Comforting apple crumble
Ingredients
For the crumble:
300g plain flour, sieved with a pinch of salt
175g unrefined brown sugar
200g unsalted butter, cubed at room temperature (room temperature bit -important!)
Butter or margarine for greasing
For the filling:
500g apples, peeled, cored and cut into 1cm pieces (leave till the last minute)
50g unrefined brown sugar
1tbsp plain flour
1 very generous pinch of ground cinnamon
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 180C
2. Pour the flour and sugar in a large mixing bowl and mix together.
3. Add a few cubes of butter and rub into the flour mixture with your fingers. Keep adding the butter and rubbing together until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs
4. Place the apples pieces in a large bowl and sprinkle over the sugar, flour and cinnamon. Stir well and take care not to break up the fruit. Breathe in the delicious heart-warming comforting smell of apple and cinnamon. Delicious!
5. Grease the ovenproof dish and spoon the fruit mixture into the bottom and sprinkle the crumble mixture on top.
6. Bake in the oven for approximately 40-45 minutes until the crumble is browned and the apple mixture is bubbling.
7. Serve with cream and custard!
6 comments:
I wanted to make this over the weekend but I didn't have your recipe at hand. But that didn't stop me - I went ahead anyway. It turns out that our recipes are almost identical! I was using wholemeal flour (cos I ran out of plain). This lunchtime I was enjoying my ymuumy homemade apple crumble with shop-bought custard and at the same time trying to get to grip with technology - leaving a comment on "someone's blog". Anyway just wanted to say thank you for the inspiration - keep the recipes coming! Have you got a quick and easy recipe for custard?
Thanks for your comment! Sadly I don't have a quick recipe for custard, however, to celebrate our first apple crumble of the year (in hopefully a few days time!) we'll make our own custard and I'll post the recipe on the blog. So please check again soon!
If you have any recipes you'd like to share, let me know. You mentioned something about bananas... ;-)
I don't have a recipe for the pups. But I do have a recipe for the banana hearts (flowers). It is delicious eaten raw in a Southeast-asian style salad, finely sliced, with carrots, lettuce and lots of different fresh herbs (Thai basil, coriander, spring onion, flat leaf parsley), and then drenched in a very light hot, chilli sauce (lots of sugar, lots of lime/lemon juice, little crushed garlic, chillies, fish sauce and water).
Mmm, that sounds delicious! As we don't have banana hearts is there another ingredient we could use instead?
What about banana leaves, do you have any suggestions of what we could do with those? The wind has been so strong recently, that large parts of the leaves have been torn off. I've thrown them away but it seemed a shame as they were in good condition.
Banana leaves are great for wrapping up food parcels for steaming or barbecuing. It imparts a lovely banana scent to the food. For example, wrap up bananas inside layers of banana leaves, barbecued, then drizzle on coconut cream with crushed salted peanuts. Oh its to die for! Hot bananas! The oven has just pinged and that means time my bread is ready.......
Oooo, thanks for that recipe. My mouth is watering reading about barbecued bananas and coconut cream. We'll definitely have to try that next summer.
Enjoy your italian bread, sounds divine!
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