Quick Summer Fruits Crumble

Quick Summer Fruit Crumble- a quick summer dessert using blueberries, raspberries and blueberries. Serve it up with ice cream or custard. Use frozen fruit if you can't get fresh.


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One of the other great things about summer is all the delicious fruit that comes into season- strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, apricots, blackcurrants, nectarines. I love it all! We're not quite in the season for those fruits yet in the UK, although some early British strawberries are knocking around. 

In my determination to bring summer on, I decided to make a Quick Summer Fruit Crumble for dessert, using the fruit that I could find. I mixed raspberries, blackberries and blueberries together in the bottom of a ceramic dish and poured the crumble mixture over the top. No pre-cooking and no peeling required makes it a super-quick crumble to make! As I didn't have fresh blueberries to hand, I used frozen. 

Frozen fruit works really well in a crumble and is so handy. You can have a huge variety available in your freezer and just whip some out when you need it.

Top Tips

  • Always rub your crumble topping by hand. Using a food mixer can make it a bit too stodgy when baked.
  • If using frozen fruit for the raspberries or blackberries, defrost it in a sieve over a bowl first to reduce the amount of liquid.
  • Don't stew the fruit. Summer fruits break down very quickly and it will be sloppy when baked in the oven as well.
  • Sprinkle sugar on the fruit to taste. The raspberries can make it quite tart, but if you prefer it that way, you might want to use less sugar.
  • If your crumble isn't golden at the end of the cooking time, you can switch your oven to grill mode for a few minutes before removing.


Summer fruits in an ovenproof dish and a portion of crumble in a bowl

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Make the Recipe

Summer fruits in a dish
Lay the fruit in the bottom of a dish and sprinkle sugar over.

Rub the crumble mixture between your fingers.

Crumble ready to go in the oven
Sprinkle the crumble mixture over the top.

Cooked summer fruit crumble
Bake until golden.

Serve
Add custard if desired.


comfort food, crumble, crisp, summer fruits
dessert
British
Yield: 4
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Summer Fruits Crumble

Summer Fruits Crumble

Prep time: 10 MCook time: 25 MTotal time: 35 M
Quick Summer Fruit Crumble- a quick summer dessert using blueberries, raspberries and blueberries. Serve it up with ice cream or custard. Use frozen fruit if you can't get fresh

Ingredients:

  • 150g blueberries
  • 150g raspberries
  • 150g blackberries
  • 140g plain flour
  • 80g caster sugar
  • 100g butter
  • 70g oats

Instructions:

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 180 (160 fan, Gas mark 4).
  2. Tip all the fruit into the bottom of a ceramic dish.
  3. Sprinkle a tablespoon of the caster sugar over the top.
  4. Cut the butter into small chunks.
  5. Mix the flour, oats and sugar together in a bowl and rub the butter in until it looks like oaty breadcrumbs.
  6. Pour the crumble mix over the fruit and even out with a spoon.
  7. Pop in the oven for 25 minutes, or until the crumble topping is golden brown. If it doesn't seem to be browning how you want, pop it under a hot grill for 4-5 mins at the end to crisp it up.
  8. Enjoy with custard or ice cream.

Notes:

Always rub your crumble topping by hand. Using a food mixer can make it a bit too stodgy when baked. If using frozen fruit for the raspberries or blackberries, defrost it in a sieve over a bowl first to reduce the amount of liquid. Don't stew the fruit. Summer fruits break down very quickly and it will be sloppy when baked in the oven as well. Sprinkle sugar on the fruit to taste. The raspberries can make it quite tart, but if you prefer it that way, you might want to use less sugar. If your crumble isn't golden at the end of the cooking time, you can switch your oven to grill mode for a few minutes before removing.

Calories

526

Fat (grams)

22

Sat. Fat (grams)

13

Carbs (grams)

77

Fiber (grams)

8

Net carbs

69

Sugar (grams)

32

Protein (grams)

7

Sodium (milligrams)

163

Cholesterol (grams)

53
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