Apple Crumble
calories: medium
category: dessert
cost: medium
difficulty: easy
preparation time: 45
Preparation Peel the apples and remove the core. Cut the apples into pieces and put the minto a pot together with 200 gr. of sugar and add the cinnamon. Let it boil on a low heat for about 20 minutes.
When the apples are ready put them into a wide shallow oven dish until they are cool. In the meantime, put the flour , the rest of the sugar and the butter into a bowl. Crumble the ingredients together using your fingers until they are the size of bread crumbs.
Arrange the crumbled mixture on top of the apples carefully and place the oven dish in a pre-heated oven at 150° C. for about 30 minutes or until your apple crumble is crisp and golden brown. Use a spoon to serve this dessert in the portions that you desire. Apple Crumble may be served with whipped cream or ice-cream and in America for those who have a particularly sweet tooth, sprinkled with a hot chocolate sauce. The Chef's tips This recipe can be served either hot or cold and has become particulaty popular in Italy and the States. We suggest you drink a sweet wine such as Moscato with your Apple Crumble. Curiosity This dish originated in England and goes back to the Second World War because during this periodo f great restrictions only a few ingredients were needed for this recipe. Butter could be replaced by margarine and so on. Later the Apple Crumble started to have more richer toppings such as ice-cream or cream.
When the apples are ready put them into a wide shallow oven dish until they are cool. In the meantime, put the flour , the rest of the sugar and the butter into a bowl. Crumble the ingredients together using your fingers until they are the size of bread crumbs.
Arrange the crumbled mixture on top of the apples carefully and place the oven dish in a pre-heated oven at 150° C. for about 30 minutes or until your apple crumble is crisp and golden brown. Use a spoon to serve this dessert in the portions that you desire. Apple Crumble may be served with whipped cream or ice-cream and in America for those who have a particularly sweet tooth, sprinkled with a hot chocolate sauce.
