Actually, I lie. This is not the same book. I got this from Chennai this April when we were there because I lose the original one athamma gave me. And with it went the recipe of this super-crazy-easy Apple Crumble Recipe! I had been searching for the book online ever since and finally found it on a road-side second hand book stall in Pondi Bazaar. Such is life 🙂
For more easy and delicious dessert recipes, I recommend:
Easy Apple Crumble Recipe
Ingredients
- Apples - 500gm about 2-3 medium-sized apples
- Wheat flour / atta - 1 cup
- Salted butter - 100gm + a bit for greasing
- Sugar - 2tbsp + 2 tbsp
- Salt - a pinch
- Lemon juice - a few drops optional
- Cinnamon stick - 1 optional
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 350F / 180C
- Wash, peel, and chop the apples into small cubes. Add a few drops of lemon juice to prevent browning
- Mix in 2tbsp sugar and cook on a low fire until soft and mushy. Set aside to cool
- Mix salt and 2 tbsp sugar with the flour
- Lightly mix in the butter without kneading until you get a mixture that resembles bread crumbs.
- Grease a pie dish/cake tray with butter
- Lay the cooked apples evenly
- Add the flour mixture evenly on top and press down gently
- Sprinkle sugar on top.
- Bake in a pre-heated oven at 350F/180C for 25-30 mins
- Serve warm with chilled vanilla custard sauce
Let’s get started with apples. Good round red apples. Actually, any variety will work. Just go with red apples, ok? So about 500gm of that, or lets say 2-3 medium-sized apples.
Peel them. Or if you hate peeling apples as much as I do, make your husband peel them and pretend you are busy with taking pictures or dusting the furniture or something.
Once peeled, chop them up into small chunks. Its okay if they are going brown. To prevent this to some extend, squeeze a few drops of lemon juice on the pieces and mix well.
Add 2 tbsp sugar to the apples and cook on a low fire until soft and mushy. If you feel they are beginning to burn at the bottom, sprinkle some water but don’t add more than that. This should take anywhere between 10-12 mins. Throw in a cinnamon piece if you like the flavour.
Meanwhile, measure out one cup whole wheat flour / atta. Add a pinch of salt and 2 tbsp of sugar to this and mix well.
Chop up 100gm of salted butter that’s almost at room temperature. The Amul salted butter that you get in India is a 100gm packet and works perfect for this. Remember to reserve a teeny bit to grease your pie dish!
Mix the butter and flour mixture gently with your fingers until well combined. Don’t knead. The resulting mixture will look like bread crumbs. In the above picture, there is slightly extra butter because I had a 108gm chunk and I added it all in. When you use just 100gm it will be drier and more crumb-like.
Smear some butter all over your pie dish next. For those of you who sighed and thought “but I don’t have a pie dish!!” fret not.
Lay out the cooled, cooked apples evenly on the greased pie dish.
Next, add the butter-atta mixture and spread evenly. Gently press down to make it as even as possible.
Sprinkle some sugar on top. I use brown sugar these days but go ahead and use your white sugar. There is no reason for this. Its just a nice thing to do. Sugar should be added to everything possible, in fact.
Bake in a preheated oven at 180C for 25-30 mins until the top turn golden brown. Do you see that crust? Now can you imagine what this dish can do your life? It’s also going to smell divine.
Vanilla Custard Sauce (eggless)
Sounds amazing!!!
Awesome recipe…gonna try for sure..
thank you!
Hi!
I've followed your recipe and made apple crumble about 4/5 times and it's always been a hit. Thanks for sharing such a great recipe 🙂
I tried this out last night and it was wonderful, I like it even when it's cold. Great recipe. Thank you! 🙂
Thanks much – I have called over some friends for lunch tomorrow and I am going to go through your steps – first time I am going to be tasting apple crumble let alone be the first time I am making it.
Wish me luck!
Am going to make the wakefield packet custard – but little runny – sauce types…
Thanks for the recipe,im heading straight to the kitchen .i thot it was too complicated so never googled it .u have made it easy .Saw this dish on masterchef Aust and Come dine with me but u tempted me to make it coz u used wheat flour.Can oil be used instead of butter?will i get the same amount of crispiness? if so in what proportion?
i'm afraid you can't substitute oil for butter in this recipe.
gonna try this 🙂
Can we use the microwave ? How much duration n do we need to change the ingredients for the same ?
Priya again, I had lot of flops trying to make cake in a microwave oven. The crust will be soft and sometimes the cake tastes raw. Your tutorial on baking was superb!!! The oven you showed (in which you bake) is lying in my MILs house under the bed from long time. I am so…. surprised that you baked all the recipes in that oven. This time when I go to my MILs house, I am going to take that oven out and try all your baking recipes one by one. Your cup cake mould idea was awesome… BRAINS!!! So please let me know can I bake apple crumble in toaster oven or not. Thankyou so much…
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I want to make the above recipe apple crumble, the way you explained made me tempted to make it as soon as possible but got a doubt can I make this in a toaster oven and what temp. should i maintain. Please help…..