Spiced blueberry crumble

Name: Spiced blueberry crumble
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 40 g (1½ oz) light muscovado or light soft brown sugar; 80 ml (⅓ cup) mild olive oil; 50 g (1¾ oz) caster sugar; 4 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and cut into 1cm (½ inch) pieces; ⅓ teaspoon fine sea salt; 100 g (3½ oz) oats; 40 g (1½ oz) dark muscovado or dark soft brown sugar; ½ teaspoon ground ginger; 2 teaspoons Sweet spice mix; 500 g (1 lb 2 oz) frozen blueberries, thawed; 100 g (3½ oz) wholemeal spelt flour

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Whisper of Cardamom

By Eleanor Ford

Published 2024

About

Crumble purists, look away. This is more a formless flapjack of a topping, heavy on oats and gingery spice. But it is our house crumble recipe (known always simply as grumble) and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

Ingredients

For the crumble topping

100 g (3½ oz) oats
100 g (3½

Dessert
Vegan
Spicy

Method

To make the crumble topping, stir together all the ingredients to make a loosely clumped rubble.

Mix the ingredients for the filling in a 1.5 litre (6-cup) baking dish. Scatter over the topping.

Put in the oven, then turn the temperature to 180°C/160°C fan (350°F). Bake for