Apple crumble
Apple crumble is a classic British pudding which is often made to conclude the traditional Sunday roast chicken dinner. A crumble consists of a cooked fresh fruit base covered with a crumbly topping of sugar, flour and butter - unlike pastry there is no binding liquid or 'rolling out'. A truly delicious pudding for those who love classic and tasty home cooking.
Ingredients
* approximate values per serving
Preparation
Peel the apples, cut into thin slices and cook for about ten minutes in a pan with the butter, sugar, cinnamon (if you like), and the lemon juice. Separately, mix together the cold butter, flour and sugar in a food processor - or rub together with your fingers - until it resembles coarse crumbs. Grease a baking dish. Arrange the cooked apples in the dish, and then cover with the crumble mixture. Bake at 180°C for 40 minutes.
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Dissolve the butter, sugar and cinnamon in a saucepan
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Add the thinly sliced apples and cook
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Make the crumble, mixing together the sugar, cold butter and flour
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The preparation of the crumble is ready
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Butter a baking dish
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Arrange the cooked apples, by now lightly cooked and caramellised
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Cover with the crumble
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Bake for 40 minutes at 180°C
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Serve your apple crumble
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Additional information
Apple Crumble without Butter: it's a Light Apple Crumble
The recipe for the apple crumble described above is particularly delicious. And as often happens in cooking, when there's indulgence involved, there's always a bit of butter. Often, but not always. It is also possible to prepare an excellent apple crumble without butter, choosing to use only flour, sugar, oil, and milk. Even in this way, it will be possible to obtain the typical "crumbs" that characterize this dessert. Delicious crumbs even without the use of butter. Let's take a look at the detailed measurements. For a medium-sized crumble, made with 3 small apples, you will need:
- 170 grams of flour, preferably whole wheat
- 30 grams of sugar
- 30 grams of oil
- 65 grams of milk
These 4 ingredients, if worked together properly, will create an excellent apple crumble without butter! With this recipe, just like with the traditional recipe described on this page, you can indulge yourself and create individual portions of apple crumble. You can use beautiful white ceramic cocottes and prepare your individual crumbles to serve during a dinner with friends.
Do you want to prepare a light apple crumble? To achieve a light recipe, it is necessary to reduce the fats. The advice we give you is to try the recipe for apple crumble without butter described above. Even without butter, the result will be very pleasant.
Quick Apple Crumble and Bimby Apple Crumble
Now that we have seen how to prepare an apple crumble without butter, let's see how to prepare a quick apple crumble. Well, the recipe proposed above on this page is indeed a quick apple crumble. It is prepared by putting the ingredients (butter, flour, sugar) in the blender to achieve the crumble effect with a couple of turbo bursts. Attention: butter worked for too long becomes warm and pasty. To achieve a crumble effect, whether you work the mixture by hand or with a blender, food processor, or immersion blender, it is essential to be quite quick! This also applies to shortcrust pastry, which should never be overheated, neither with your hands nor with the blades!
As for food processors, if you have a Bimby, you can definitely prepare the Bimby apple crumble. The recipe is surely loaded in the machine; if you can't find it, just follow these measurements:
- 100 grams of sugar
- 50 grams of flour
- 50 grams of butter
- a pinch of cinnamon if desired
Put everything in the bowl for 20 seconds at speed 4. Continue with the recipe as usual, and you will have your Bimby apple crumble!