Fruit Crumble

Blueberry crumble

Mmmm, purple goodness..

I have a little bit of hoarding problem when it comes to food: I love to freeze food. There are a bunch of leftover curries, frozen fruits, frozen cakes and frozen liquidy stuffs in my freezer. A few days ago I found the leftover syrup from when I did spiced poached pear . I'm planning on making a granita out of that so I thawed it and forgot about it.

During the weekends I've accumulated a few props for my food photography project, so after work today I decided to make something easy (work was killing me today!). So then I decided on making fruit crumble, incorporating the pear syrup to give it a kick. It took me 5 minutes to prepare and 15 minutes to bake it, that's how easy it is. And if you're like me, stashing away food in the freezer, most likely you can find some frozen berries/ fruits in the freezer. For this crumble I used blueberries, but you can use any fruit you like (apple, pear, name-another-type-of-berries, banana and even passion fruit). You can also use any spices (or if your prefer not to) such as star anise, cinnamon, ginger and so on. It is a very versatile and foolproof dish which is why I LOVE IT SO MUCH! :)

Fruit Crumble (enough to feed 2 people or an extremely hungry person)

What you need: 

For the crumble

55 grams plain flour

35 grams unsalted butter, diced and chilled (makes it easier to crumb)

35 grams sugar

For the filling

100 grams fruit of your choice

2 tbs sugar (I used 1 tbs syrup and 1 tbs sugar)

1 tbs lemon juice (you can add the zest too to give it a zingy taste)

1/2 tsp cinnamon (again, you can change this to whatever spices you want)

How to do it:

Preheat the oven to 180 °C.

Heat up the fruit and the rest of the ingredients for the filling in a saucepan for 5 minutes. Pour the mixture into oven-proof dish, I used a shallow 12.7 cm ramekins

Place the flour and butter in a bowl and rub them together until the mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs, then add the sugar. 

Sprinkle the crumble topping on top of the fruit.

Bake in the oven for 15 minutes or until the top is golden brown.

Serve warm (maybe with vanilla ice cream?).

ENJOY! xx