A crunchy and crumbly fruit-filled shell: here is the recipe for the classic apple crumble and our tips for preparing it with crumbled biscuits or in a savory version
Originating from Great Britain and ofIreland, the crumble is a dessert prepared with a sort of very crumbly pastry and filled with ingredients of all kinds. The most classic is the Apple Crumble, but you can prepare it with so many different types of cooked fruit or even with salty ingredients.
Its main feature is explained by the name itself, which means crumbled: this dessert is in fact prepared with a mixture of flour, butter and sugar with a particular consistency, but it can also be made with dry biscuits crumbled.
Apple crumble: classic recipe
Making the classic apple crumble is easy. Let's see the classic recipe and some useful tips.
Ingredients
For the crumble
150 g flour
100 g Butter
100 g brown sugar
For the stuffing
50 g Caster sugar
3-4 Apples
15 g Butter
Cinnamon
Method
For the apple crumble recipe, start washing the apples, peel them and cut them into chunks. Pour the granulated sugar into a large saucepan and let it caramelize until it becomes slightly dark, add the apples and a knob of butter and cook for a few minutes. If you like it, add cinnamon or lemon zest to perfume.
In a bowl combine the flour, the brown sugar and the very cold butter: knead the dough quickly with your fingertips until you get a dough from the sandy texture. You don't have to work it long, otherwise the dough will get too hot. (For a more intense taste, you can also add cinnamon to the dough)
Grease a baking dish and sprinkle it with a thin layer of dough, add the cooked apples and cover with the rest of the dough. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for about 25-30 minutes.
Tips
With this same procedure you can also use other types of fruit, such as le pears, the prunes, the peaches or i Red fruits. In addition, part of the flour can be replaced with finely chopped dried fruit, such as hazelnuts, almonds or pistachios, or with the cocoa.
The crumble can be served in slices, accompanied by one icecream ball, or it can be prepared in monoportion using some cocotte.
The preparation technique of this dessert can also be used to enrich the spoon desserts: once the crumbled dough is prepared, place it on a baking tray covered with parchment paper and bake it at 170 ° for about 8-10 minutes. Once left to cool, you can sprinkle it on creams, ice cream and desserts of all kinds to give flavor and crunchiness.
Crumble with crumbled biscuits
If you don't have flour and butter available or you don't want to knead, you can also prepare the crumble with i cookies dry crumbled. Fast and antiwaste, this recipe is very easy and allows you to recycle those broken cookies on the bottom of the box!
Crumble 200 g of biscuits together with 60 g of butter with your fingertips or with the help of a mixer: the result should not be a compact dough, but sandy. Place your filling on the bottom of the pan and cover with the dough; cooking times will be reduced compared to the classic recipe, it will take you about 12-15 minutes.
Savory crumble
The crumble can also be salty and turn into a tasty one starter or in a rich man second dish stuffed with meat, vegetables and greens. The preparation technique is the same, but instead of sugar the grated Parmesan cheese and add salt and pepper. Even the flour can be replaced with the bread crumbs or enriched with i Pine nuts and the herbs.
As for the filling, it's all up to your imagination: zucchini, potatoes, cured meat, eggplant, onions, tomatoes…
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