A brilliant cheat's dessert, this fruit bake is super-quick and its store cupboard ingredients make it thrifty too
Ingredients
- 900g Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and cut into chunks
- juice ½ lemon
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- 4 tbsp plain flour
- 85g unsalted chilled butter, cubed
- 85g soft brown sugar
- 50g oats
- 25g chopped walnut
- ice cream or crème fraîche, to serve
Method
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Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. In a bowl, mix the apples with the lemon juice, cinnamon, 1 tbsp of flour, 15g of butter and 1 tbsp of brown sugar. Place in a small glass baking dish, cover with cling film and cook in the microwave for 5 mins at 600W, or slightly less time if you have a higher wattage.
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Meanwhile, rub the remaining flour, butter, sugar, oats and nuts with your fingers to a crumble-like but chunky texture.
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Spoon the cooked apples into an ovenproof dish. Scatter over the crumble and bake in the oven for 20 mins until crisp. Serve with ice cream or crème fraîche.