Crumble is an amazingly delicious dessert with a crisp on top and a fragrant soft filling inside. But the classic crumble itself, invented by English housewives, is a rather high-calorie dish. But what about those who want to feast on them, but at the same time count calories and adhere to a healthy diet? There is a way out - crumble with oatmeal. We offer you it today and cook it.
Origin
As we already said, culinary specialists from England came up with dessert. Translated from English, the word means “sprinkle” or “crumble”. Crumble pie with oatmeal is a great find for those who want to get both a delicious filling and crisp.
Initially, the cake was made exclusively with apples. Then many other varieties appeared: pear crumble with oatmeal, peach and berry, pie with dried fruits, chocolate and coconut filling. There are many options, but today we offer you to cook a classic apple version.
It will take
- Oatmeal - one glass, or 250 grams.
- A pound of peeled apples.
- One egg.
- Half a glass of milk.
- 180 grams of butter (in a budget option, you can use margarine instead of butter).
- One glass of flour.
- Sugar - 250 grams.
- 50 grams of any nuts (cashews, peanuts, almonds, walnuts).
- One teaspoon of ground cinnamon.
Cooking process
Oatmeal cramble can be prepared using any kind of apple. If you like the sour taste in desserts, then take green sour apples. If you want sweets, then opt for sweet red apples. They should be peeled and cut into small pieces. In some recipes, core removal is recommended, but this may not be necessary. At your discretion.
Next, the apples need to be slightly extinguished. Put apple slices in a frying pan, add granulated sugar, butter and ground cinnamon. Stew until the apples are soft. Some housewives do not pre-stew apples. Here the choice will also be yours. If you like more crunchy apples in pies, then you don’t need to stew. If you want the filling to melt in your mouth, then do not be too lazy to put out the apples before sending it to the baking dish.
The basis
Mix oatmeal with milk and egg. You should have a slightly liquid mass. We pour it to the bottom of the prepared form. Stack apples on top. By the way, you can add nuts and raisins to the mass when kneading. They will certainly increase the calorie content and nutritional value of the dish, but at the same time give it a special charm and unusual taste.
Oatmeal apple crumble is a layer cake. Two layers are already laid in the dishes. It remains to add a third. It will consist of sugar and flour mixed together. In this friable mass we add butter grated on a fine grater. It should first be slightly frozen in the freezer. So it will be easier to rub on a grater. Sprinkle a layer of apples with this mixture.
We put our crumble with oatmeal and apples to bake in the oven, which was previously heated to 200 degrees. The cooking time for this dish is 30-40 minutes. Everything will depend on the amount of dough and the size of the mold.
Serving apple crumble with oatmeal is recommended with berry jam, honey, yogurt, jam or ice cream. When you get the cake out of the oven, give it time to cool it a bit. Only after that we cover the baking dish with a flat wide plate and turn the cake over.
Diet option
Despite the fact that oatmeal is used in the preparation, and not flour, the cake still turns out to be high-calorie due to butter and eggs. Is it possible to even more lighten the dish in terms of calories? There are options.
First, as we already said, diet crumble is a recipe with oatmeal, not flour. Secondly, we remove from the components such a product as butter, and replace it with low-fat margarine or odorless vegetable oil. Thirdly, high-calorie nuts can not be added. And to serve such a dish is better with honey, and not with high-calorie sweet jam.
Few secrets
- Since oatmeal crumble is a very fragile dish, experienced housewives advise cooking it in batches. If you have small molds, then use them.
- If you want the top crust to be as crispy as possible, we recommend taking granola, granola or very chopped nuts for sprinkling.
- Crumble can also be meat if desired. You will need to replace some ingredients: berries and fruits - with vegetables and meat, sugar - with hard cheese. In the recipe, use more vegetable or olive oil, excluding butter.
- The ideal serving of this dessert is a combination of cold and heat. The cake should be as hot as possible, while at the same time a ball of ice cream laid on top must simply be icy cold.
- If you decide to make a pie with berries, then pour them into a mold without defrosting.
- Crumble is a versatile dish. Many housewives call this cake "We will prepare sophistication from what is at hand." For the filling, you can use: blackberries and apples, pears, rhubarb with ginger, plums, black currants, apples with oranges, gooseberries, vegetables and meat, strawberries and blueberries. In general, everything that is currently in your refrigerator.
- By the way, the prepared crumbly crumb is perfectly stored in the refrigerator. It can be made a little more than you need for one pie. And as soon as your household wants crumble again, you will already have a harvest, which will save time.