Easy Apple Crumble with Vanilla Custard Sauce

Easy Apple Crumble with Vanilla Custard Sauce: before I even start talking about this deliciously simple apple crumble recipe, I want to apologize for not sharing this earlier. The first time I made this was when I was about 16 or 17. My athamma got me this book from Salem since I was quite crazy about baking and Mallika Badrinath was quite the rage back then.

PinActually, 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 🙂

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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.

PinPeel 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.

PinOnce 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.

PinAdd 2 tbsp 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.

PinMeanwhile, measure out one cup whole wheat flour / atta. Add a pinch of salt and 2 tbsp of sugar to this and mix well.

PinChop 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.

PinSmear 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.

You can use a small cake tray of any shape. In fact, I used an old aluminium ice tray when I was in India. So pretty much anything works! I got this pie dish on sale so I am going all fancy this time 😉

PinLay out the cooled, cooked apples evenly on the greased pie dish.

PinNext, add the butter-atta mixture and spread evenly. Gently press down to make it as even as possible.

PinSprinkle 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.

PinBake 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.

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Vanilla Custard Sauce (eggless)