Phil Vickery's apple crumble
Apple crumble is so cheap and easy to make - and it's the perfect pudding now the weather's turning colder.
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Prep time: 20 mins
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Cooking time: 35 mins
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Total time: 55 mins
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Serves: 4-6
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Skill level: Easy peasy
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Costs: Cheap as chips
Ingredients
The big, big rule is never add the sugar to the crumble until the butter is rubbed into the flour. The reason is that the sugar and butter will cream, and the crumble will be heavy and more like pastry. Gently mix the sugar through with a spoon - then just pour over the cooked apple and don't pack it down.
- 4 large cooking apples
- 4tbsp olive oil
- Zest and juice of 1 large lemon
- 175g unrefined caster sugar
- 2 pinches of ground cinnamon
- 115g cold unsalted butter
- 225g plain flour
- 140g caster sugar
- 25g porridge oats
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/gas mark 6. Peel and core the apples and cut into large chunks.
- Heat the oil in a saucepan, add the lemon zest and juice, 175g sugar, cinnamon and then add the apples. Cook for 5 mins to soften slightly.
- Tip into a large baking dish roughly 20cm square.
- Place the cold butter and flour into a food processor and blitz until you have fine breadcrumbs.
- Tip into a bowl and stir through the sugar carefully. Spoon over the top of the stewed apples and sprinkle over the oats.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 30-40 mins or until well-browned. Serve your apple crumble with custard and/or ice cream.
By bramleyapples.co.uk
Nutritional information
Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.
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