Strawberry Crumble Recipe Strawberry Crisp Recipe

What is a Crumble?

Crumble is a simplistic fruit recipe that transforms any fruit into a wonderful dessert when covered with a crisp, buttery crumb topping. A crumble is a sweet or savoury meal that can be cooked in a variety of ways. Crumbles gained popularity in the United Kingdom during World War II .when the topping served as a cost-effectivealternative to pies due to rationing of pastry ingredients. There are some different stories behind the origin of the name. The widely accepted version is that the berries would drop off the leaves and become “strewn” concerning the plant. Overtime “strewn-berries” became “strawberries”. Similar Recipes,Apple Crumble Pear and Cherry CrispMango Crumble The cool thing about this is, you can make it to your guest who drop in without any notice. You can make this into individual portions to serve them.

Ingredients for Strawberry Crumble

Strawberry :

Strawberries are a vibrant red fruit that is juicy and tasty. They’re high in vitamin C and manganese, and they also have a good amount of folate (vitamin B9) and potassium. Strawberries are high in antioxidants and plant chemicals thatmay help with heart health and blood sugar regulation.

Cornflour :

It is also known as corn starch or maize starch. It provides a natural thickness this fruit crumble. You could try replacing the corn starch with tapioca or arrow root starch.

Cold Unsalted Butter:

The butter mixes in with the crumble topping to help giving it that lovely crunchy topping. For a dairy free option you could swap the butter with margarine. Hope you like this and off you go to the recipe.

Strawberry Crumble Preparation

Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Take all crumble ingredients in a bowl, add in butter and rub it with your fingers or fork to resemble it coarse crumbs. Put this in fridge till needed. Take strawberries, sugar and cornflour in a bowl and mix well. Take half of the crumble in a baking pan and press evenly so it forms a base. Top with the fruit mix. Now top with remaining crumbles and pop them in oven. Bake for 40 to 45 mins till the top is bubbly and golden. Remove it and set aside to cool down. Scoop and serve with vanilla ice cream.

Pro Tips

Crumble topping can be made in bulk and stored in freezer for many months. Serve hot with cream or ice cream or cold with creme fraiche. If you have any questions not covered in this post and if you need help, leave me a comment or mail me @[email protected] and I’ll help as soon as I can. Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest ,Youtube and Twitter for more Yummy Tummy inspiration.