Hi guys, hope you're well. Okay, so i've got a brilliant recipe for christmas
crumble, come on! Now crumble has been a top search on jamieoliver.com and you guys are loving it and
of course you know I love a crumble. This one is quick, it's easy, it's got some brilliant christmasy
hacks. The first hack is i'm going to use a jar of beautiful cranberry sauce. 100 grams of that gives
you the fruit, the flavour of christmas and the sugar. Then we're going to use a kilo and a half
of apples and pears. Now this is the season for apples and pears and don't get the cooking apples
that need more sugar, go for the eating apples and try and mix the varieties up. So you can see you've
got different colours, different flavours. They'll all cook differently but if you mix up the pears
and apples it will taste amazing. The cranberry sauce gives us that brilliant cheat of sugar
and the flavours of christmas. So mix up the apples and pears. I'm going to add another christmasy
ingredient and that's the clementine. Add in the fine zest of one clementine and i'll go in with
the juice as well. So that clementine juice smells so good! If you wanted to put a little christmas
spice in there, a little nutmeg grated in there or a little tiny pinch of cinnamon, that's amazing. Put
in some christmasy sherry just a nice little lug like that and then all you have to do is mix it up,
put a lid on and cook that slowly for about 10 minutes until tender and delicious. Let me show
you the crumble topping now, it is so simple. So in a traditional sense we're going to go in with 50
grams of unsalted butter. We're then going to go in with a hundred grams of plain flour but then
we go in with 50 grams of flaked almonds. I'm gonna go in with 50 grams which is about two tablespoons
of sugar in there as well. So just rub this all together to make that classic crumble topping.
Here's a nice little curve ball, grab yourself one or two or three if you want mince pies and
I'll literally just crumble it up in my hand and that is the flavour of christmas, right. So straight in
there and you can see the texture and the colour changing, brilliant little cheat and I love that.
So when that's cooked, I'll show you how to put it together. you're gonna love it.
So the apple and pear and the cranberry, it's had about 10 minutes, it smells amazing. I'll
turn that off now. Get yourself one large or two nice moulds. I quite like when I do a crumble to
make one for now and one for the freezer or the fridge, right. It's just a nice thing to have around
so you can just whack it in another day, so the gift that keeps giving. So I'm just going to fill
this bowl with half of this mixture, it smells so nice! What I love about using eating apples
and the pears, is it doesn't just completely fall apart and turn into pulp. I'm just gonna
spoon this in like that. I'll take half of this and just sprinkle this on top. Now I try to put
most of it in the middle and then kind of almost go a little bit around the outsides and that way
it kind of allows it to breathe and you kind of get nice little blippy bits here as well. So
that's lovely. So that's one down and then this second one to go. So I'll just simply pour that
into there. I freeze these, I put them in the fridge. You know in two weeks time I want a lovely dessert.
My family love a crumble, we never get tired of them, but it's really lovely to change up the
toppings and of course the fruit combinations. So there you go, two done, super simple. One for
the freezer, one for the oven. About half an hour at 180 degrees celsius which is 350 fahrenheit
and then I'll serve it up with some custard and maybe a little bit of ice cream as well,
gorgeous.
So the crumbles had 30 minutes it's smelling amazing and come on look at that come and have
a look. Golden, sticky gorgeousness. So there you go, it's looking amazing, the question is what to
have with it? Ice cream or custard? I think you know what i'm gonna do. So get yourself a little plate,
get yourself a little spoon. Let's get in there to the soul of this beautiful crumble, come on! Look
at that. Hot and steamy apples and pears. For me the mince pies going in that crumble give it an
amazing texture and flavour, but it's not too much, it's not too heavy. It's just that little bit of
christmas which I love. Let's get some ice cream in the story, classic custard and there you go.
Christmas crumble, custard and ice cream, let's get amongst it, come on. Bit of custard...
oh my lord. That reminds me of being a kid, that reminds me my nan, my mum. In this month
for festivities, get out there, try those little cheats to make your very own christmas crumble.
Lots of love guys, happy cooking and until next time, take care.