Vegetarians call it “dessert from God”, “food of the gods” and other enthusiastic epithets. It’s impossible not to like crumble, because where else can you combine tender shortcrust pastry with the freshness of fruits and berries in sweet juice and with an air cap of whipped cream on top?
What is crumble?
The English word, which gave its name to a dessert that was amazing in its simplicity and gamma of taste, means "crumble, break into small pieces." Queen Elizabeth simply adores his taste, and Gordon Ramsay adds caramel and lemon to it.
Crumble is an intermediate stage between the pudding and the cake, it does not have a base from the dough, only a small crisp, like a shtrezelnoy topping. Such desserts are especially revered by fighters for harmony and a healthy lifestyle, because their calorie content is only 190 calories, and if cooked without starch - even less.
Starch is placed to bind pieces of fruit, although this is not necessary, but crumbs of butter and flour are the main part of this dessert.
What fruits and berries are used for cooking?
Initially, crumble was apple, because it is a primordially British dessert, but after spreading it on the mainland, culinary experts from different countries began to experiment with ingredients. As a result, the sand crumb remained virtually unchanged, but the apples began to gradually coexist or even be replaced by other fruits: pears, cherries, blueberries and raspberries, apricots and peaches.
Almost all fruits are suitable for baking: with plums in combination with apple and cranberry, crumble becomes a “masterpiece in five minutes”, because it takes so much time to prepare.
Cooking the simplest crumble
With plums, you can cook anything from sweet cakes, casseroles and jams to hot sauces and gravy to meat. This wonderful fruit is so original in taste that it can radically change the dish with its presence. Plum crumble is no exception, especially if the plum in it is adjacent to cinnamon. This is truly unearthly bliss for a vegetarian.
For cooking, you need to take one kilogram of plums, remove the seeds and cut each half of the fruit into four parts, then mix the slices with two tablespoons of starch, and it is better to take corn - this will give a special flavor to plum crumble. Then you need to add sugar: if you have a sweet tooth, then 150-180 grams are better, if not, then a hundred grams of granulated sugar will be enough. Stir the sweet fruit mass and put in a baking dish, and sprinkle with crumbs on top, prepared as follows: 100 grams of chilled butter mixed with 100 grams of flour, 150 grams of sugar and 40 grams of walnuts. To do this, it is better to use a blender.
Add half a teaspoon of cinnamon and 70 grams of oatmeal to the resulting crumbs, mix again with a blender: you should get a crumb similar to shtrezel, which is sprinkled with fruit in a baking dish.
Put the dessert in the oven and bake for about thirty minutes until cooked.
Plum crumble recipe with raisins and apples
Cut three apples and six plums into slices, after removing the seeds and seeds, put them in a bowl and sprinkle with two tablespoons of granulated sugar, add 50 grams of raisins and cinnamon on the tip of the knife (about three grams). Then add two tablespoons of liquid honey, mix so that it evenly envelops the fruit, and put the prepared fruit mass in a baking dish, leveling the top.
In a separate bowl, mix:
- 100 grams of wheat flour;
- 100 grams of butter;
- 100 grams of granulated sugar;
- 100 grams of oatmeal.
As you can see, the recipe for apple-plum crumble is simple to impossibility: it is easy to remember, so that every time you do not look into the cookbook. A mass of flour and oil should be rubbed with your hands until the formation of powdery mildew crumbs, which sprinkle pieces of fruit on top. Send to the oven and bake at a temperature of 180 degrees.
Jamie Oliver plum crumble
The most charming cook on the planet prepares this dish in combination with other fruits that emphasize the taste of plums, and spices give such a breathtaking aroma that saliva will flow even from a meat-eater.
So, the list of necessary products:
- 600 grams seedless drain;
- 1 apple
- half a vanilla pod ;
- 400 grams of kiwi
- 200 grams of wheat flour, which should be sifted;
- 100 grams of oatmeal, although the “8 cereals” teams are also suitable;
- 100 grams of butter, it should be well chilled;
- 180 grams of granulated sugar;
- 1 teaspoon of grated or ground ginger (fresh or dried).
Peel kiwi and cut together with plums into slices, apple into thin slices. Mix flour, 70 grams of sugar and butter with a blender, then add flakes and rub the mass with your hands into the crumbly crumb, which is the hallmark of the crumble.
Mix kiwi and plums, add the rest of sugar, ginger and vanilla, mix and put in a baking dish - the one in which you will serve plum crumble on the table. To level the top, put slices of apple on which to pour oily crumb from flakes. Put the mold in the oven already preheated to 180 degrees and bake for about forty minutes.
Jamie Oliver claims that this is an Irish plum baking recipe, so it is best served with whipped cream, as is done in Ireland. Sometimes he is fond of spices, and then his sweet desserts are called "heady" because of the abundance of taste.
What is crumble usually served with?
Most often, fruit casseroles are served with sour cream or cream, whipped with vanilla and powdered sugar, so the butteriness of the cream smooths out the rich taste of the fruit, and shortcrust complements the lightness of the dessert.
One of the features of this plum crumble is that it is served warm, so the cream begins to melt a little, enveloping the berries and giving unearthly bliss to the sweets, irritating their taste buds. Although those who managed not to eat it immediately and leave it in the morning, argue that in the cold, it also tastes very good, although it certainly can not be compared with just baked one.
Some culinary specialists add crushed nuts, almond petals or coconut flakes when serving, but this is a fan of innovations or a gourmet. In fact, there is no need to emphasize the taste of the traditional crumble with nothing but cream - it is already magnificent.