Apple crumble with apples

3 servings
40 min

How to make a crumble? Prepare the products. Choose hard, not sweet varieties for apples. They hold their shape better and taste better in baking of this kind. If your apples are sweet, then I advise you to reduce the amount of sugar, otherwise it will be cloying. Brown sugar goes to the filling, white - to the dough. Instead of walnuts, you can take any others or completely exclude them.

First of all, cut the oil into cubes and put it in the freezer. It should be very well chilled.

Grind the nuts into medium-sized pieces.

Put them in a dry frying pan and toast for 5 minutes over a medium heat. This way you will enhance the taste of nuts. They will become crisper and more fragrant. It's not an obligatory step at all, but by trying it once, you'll make sure the nut is tastier when toasted.

Wash the apples and peel them. Cut them into halves, cut out the middle. Cut the apples into small pieces.

Pour brown sugar and cinnamon into a dry pan. Put the prepared apples.

Place the pan over a small heat and, stirring the apples, wait for the sugar to melt. Gently mix the apple wedges with the resulting caramel. As soon as juice is released from the apples and, mixed with caramel, covers each piece, turn off the heating - the filling is ready.

It remains to make dough - sand crumbs. Pour the flour and sugar into a bowl. Remove the oil from the freezer, put it in the flour.

Using a fork, rub the oil with flour to the state of small crumbs. The goal is to quickly mash the oil so that each piece of it is covered with flour and sugar. Then, when baked, the butter will make the flour crisp. If it melts, then such an effect will not work. Therefore, it is necessary to work quickly and not with your hands, from the heat of your hands the oil will begin to melt.

For the preparation of crumble, either one large form or several portions can be used. At the bottom of the tin, place the caramelized apples. top with nuts. I prefer a lot of apples, so I put them on two-thirds of the volume.

Top with the sand crumbs. Place the crumble molds on a baking sheet. I advise you to cover it with parchment - if a lot of apple juice is released when baking, then, having run away, it will not stain the baking sheet.

Bake the crumble in the oven at 180 ° C for 25 minutes. Remove the finished dessert, cool a little. Serve warm with a ball of ice cream.