May 6, 2007: Fruit Crumble

I don't consume plenty fruit. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 fresh, seasonal slice of fruit is a wonderful affair but I haven't fully developed my mightiness to choose together with promptly consume it. It's non that I haven't tried - belike 1 time a month, I'll pick out a inexpensive handbag of whatever's at its pinnacle or merely 1 or ii pieces of something exotic I've never tried before. Either way, at to the lowest degree ii pieces of fruit volition loiter for a calendar week or to a greater extent than earlier I guiltily dispose of them (most guiltily if I exclusively bought ii pieces of fruit inwards the commencement place). Last wintertime I took upward fruit crumbles inwards a to a greater extent than creative bid to consume my fruit. You may snort that fruit crumble defeats my nutritional purpose, but this is a dual assault of getting to a greater extent than fruit and less after-dinner chocolate into me. Moreover, I've developed merely about junk-limiting rules for my homemade crumbles:

1. There volition last much to a greater extent than fruit than crumble;

2. The layer of fruit may guide hold a touching on of lemon juice or spice added, but no additional sugar;

3. There volition last oats together with nuts inwards the crumble;

4. Crumble volition non last accompanied past times cream or H2O ice cream. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 dollop of yoghurt is permitted if yoghurt already resides inwards the house. Otherwise a small-scale drinking glass of milk serves the food-combining final result sufficiently.

On this nighttime I belike exclusively deserved 2 - three out of 4 points for maintaining the spirit of the rules. That's a teensy weensy spoon of mascarpone yous see, but I hope that it was inwards the refrigerator already, together with non bought peculiarly for this purpose! And yeah, I went a fleck overboard amongst the crumble.

Clotilde of Chocolate & Zucchini fame is quite the crumble lover, together with has a number of recipes for it on her blog. I similar to work her element weights equally a guide, altering the fruit, nuts, spice, carbohydrate together with flour type from batch to batch. (Pictured higher upward is spiceless apple, pear together with almond rendition.) Rather than rubbing the ingredients together past times hand, I accept the fast together with furious approach of the nutrient processor, which has the nuts, oats together with butter melding together most agreeably.

Fruit crumble

At to the lowest degree 4 serves of fruit (a 'serve' beingness an apple, a pear, a twain of plums, etc)

a mash of lemon juice together with a pinch of spice (optional)

50g flour
50g oats
50g sugar
50g butter
25g nuts

Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees C.

Peel, de-seed together with otherwise ready your fruit, together with hence cutting it into chunks. Throw it into a small-scale to medium-sized baking dish. Stir through merely about lemon juice and/or spice if yous desire it.

Put the flour, oats together with carbohydrate into a nutrient processor together with pulse a twain of times to combine them. Cut the butter into cubes together with add together it to the mix, processing a fleck longer this time. When you've got the fine breadcrumb look, add together the nuts together with procedure until it looks similar biscuit dough (some remaining nutty chunks are good). Alternatively, procedure to the biscuit dough phase subsequently adding the butter together with and hence stir the whole nuts in. Sprinkle the mixture evenly over the fruit. Bake for almost xx minutes, or until the crumbly crust begins to brown.