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 tablespoon 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 tablespoon 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 tablespoon 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)
jayasree
Apple crumble looks delicious. love your step-by-step pics, as always. i have tried with half and half of wheat flour and APF. Loved the way you paired it with custard sauce.
RedChillies
Wonderful recipe Nags and this is such a keeper. I don't know how you do it, but love your step by step recipes.
Lisa
Oh goodness! This must be one of the most tempting apple crumble recipes I have come across. Making note of this and resisting the urge to head into the kitchen. It's after midnight and I must get up in the morning for work. Sigh ..
Divya Kudua
Ahem..so this was the one on Twitter..Apple Crumble..oh yeah:).I know what to buy first when I make a trip to Nilgiris next,they stock her books there:).I haven't tasted Apple crumble,but after reading your descriptions and the pictures,I guess I have to make it on my own and relish!!Yummy dessert!!
Nags
Sonu - this required all this attention 😉
Nags
SJ - Deal!! When do I get my bookmark? 😀
Ann - yes you are right. He is a darling and helps without any fuss 🙂
Ann
Nags,totally awesome..couldnt stop laughing reading your note on peeling..haha..but what if i pretend..I will end up doing the same..so give it in bracket that if you possess a darling hubby who peels..lovely there
Great picture and awesome narration..will try this .
RAKS KITCHEN
I have 4 of Mallika badrinath's cookbook,but not this one,2 I too bought from my home town Salem..:)
Crumble looks so yum:)
Nags
I've heard of fruit cobbler but never knew it was that simple! Will try it out soon 🙂
Btw, too bad your blog is invite-only. Konkani recipes sound cool 🙂
Arc
Hi Nags,
Cool recipe.. here in the US, there is a similar recipe called fruit cobbler, which is simpler.. no cooking of fruits. Just dunk the fruits, and top it with yellow cake mix and liberally add butter at the top and bake. We serve it with ice-cream.
Arc