Apple crumble

I made this up tonight so thought it best to write it down so I don’t forget later. It’s super easy to make and doesn’t need too many ingredients, great for a Sunday night treat.

It must be apple season as we bought a box for $10 it had at least 30 apples. Most apple pie or crumble recipes seem to use Granny Smith apples but I had royal gala.

Ingredients

Filling
10 apples (peeled & cut into wedges not too thin)
1 lemon
1/4 to 1/2 cup of brown sugar
1 heaped tsp vanilla paste
1 heaped tsp ground cinnamon
1 heaped tbsp butter (maybe 40g?)

Crumble
1 cup flour
1/4 cup brown sugar
100-120g butter cut in cubes

Preheat oven to 180-200 degrees Celsius.

Melt the butter then add the apples (don’t wait for the butter to brown). Add the juice of 1 lemon. Mix. Add the rest of the ingredients – vanilla paste, cinnamon & brown sugar. Taste and adjust to your liking. Keep stirring the apples and check that it’s just cooked through, you don’t want it too soft and mushy. I pricked it with a fork, you can feel the firmness of the apple. The apples will have more cooking time in the oven. Put the apples in an oven proof dish. You don’t have to add all the liquid or juice in, just enough to cover the apples, you don’t want the crumble sitting in liquid.

For the crumble I put all the ingredients in a food processor. The crumble should be like large breadcrumbs. Add the crumble mixture to the apples.

Bake for 25-30 until the crumble is crunchy and brown, until golden brown.

Serve with vanilla ice cream or custard or double cream.

I could adjust this recipe and use wholemeal flour and rolled oats to be a bit more healthy, I’m sure it would still taste great, I just didn’t have any on hand.

You could also add raisins or currants to the apple filling but Serena’s not so keen on them so I left them out but you could add this and reduce the amount of sugar used.