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Apple crumble fresh from the oven

Tasty & Healthy Apple Crumble

A standard arrangement of a crumble topping over some apple fruit - but using a healthier and tastier crumble topping composed of wholemeal flour, oats, hemp seeds and ground almonds with some plant butter. The fruit is just sliced & then chopped bramley apple with a few cloves to add extra flavour. It is very low in sugar content.
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine Vegan, British
Servings 6 people

Equipment

  • Large oval pie dish
  • medium bowl

Ingredients
  

For fruit filling

  • 650 g bramley cooking apples
  • 65 g Golden Caster Sugar

For crumble topping

  • 125 g whole-wheat flour organic is best
  • 75 g rolled porridge oats organic is best
  • 75 g vegan margarine
  • 70 g Soft Brown Sugar
  • 20 g of hulled hemp seed
  • 20 g of ground almonds
  • 1 teasp ground cinnamon optional, but I love it.
  • 10 g milled flax seed optional but adds extra nutrition

Instructions
 

Preparing the fruit filling

  • Pre-heat the oven to 180°C Fan.
  • Prepare the , cooking apples (bramley preferably) washing it first then removing the core and slicing it into 2 to 3cm pieces. I prefer not to peel them, but some do.....
  • arrange the fruit evenly in a large oven proof dish - oval pyrex is traditional, but not mandatory.....
    arranging the fruit in the dish
  • sprinkle with soft brown sugar or golden caster sugar turn over a few times with a spoon and set aside. My pyrex dish holds 3 litres as a guide. You can add a few cloves......
    sprinkle with sugar and turn over

Making the crumble topping.

  • Using a zeroable scale, weigh in the margarine, flour, oats and other ingredients into a large mixing bowl.
    weighing in the crumble ingredients
  • Rub the flour, oats, seeds & nuts and margarine together until it looks crumbly and the margarine has been evenly dispersed through the flour. A pair of long dinner knives – one in each hand are good to start it off are good, then finish with the finger tips.
    rubbing the fat into the crumble mixture
  • Sprinkle the crumble topping evenly over the top of the fruit, using a fork to even out the distribution if necessary, but don't press it down.
    sprinkle the crumble topping onto the fruit
  • Cook in the oven for 35 - 40 minutes until lightly golden brown. If it looks like the fruit is not cooked, cover with aluminium foil to prevent it over browning on top.
    Tasty & Healthy Apple Crumble
  • Allow to rest for 5 to 10 minutes before serving with warm custard, vegan ice cream, vegan single cream or all three!
    apple crumble part served

Notes

  • You can use any fruit however - but 600g of fruit is about right for the dish specified.
  • Use as little sugar as possible - around 10% of the weight of the fruit is a good rule of thumb. You may need a little more for very tart fruit, and a little less for very sweet fruit - but for cooking apples, rhubarb, damsons &  gooseberries - 10% is good.
  • If the crumble starts to burn before the fruit looks to be cooked - cover with aluminium foil, and cook for another 5 minutes or so.
  • Despite what "they" say, you can easily freeze this uncooked for 6 months - just make sure you take it out far enough in  advance to defrost and warm to room temperature before putting in the oven to cook.
  • This is lovely with custard - see my frothed microwave custard recipe for simply the best fool proof custard!
Keyword apple, nutritious, healthy, quick, crumble, fruit, hemp seeds, ground almonds
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