Fennel and Apple Crumble
This Apple and Fennel Crumble is a flavorful upgrade to traditional fruit crisps. The natural sweetness of apples blends with aromatic fennel, while a crunchy sliced almond and brown sugar topping delivers the perfect bite. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream or yogurt for a rustic dessert everyone will love.
Servings 6
Calories 307kcal
Ingredients
Base
- 14 grams / 1 tablespoon butter
- 12 grams / 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 fennel bulb based removed, halved and finely sliced
- 450 grams / 3 medium apples peeled, cored, halved and finely sliced
Crumble Topping
- 120 grams / ¾ cup plain flour
- 60 grams / ¾ cup sliced almonds
- 40 grams / 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 2 grams / 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 55 grams / 4 tablespoons butter room temperature and cubed
Instructions
Base
- Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350F.
- Heat the butter on low heat, add in the fennel and sugar, cooking approximately 8 minutes, stirring every few minutes to cook evenly.
- Add the apples and continue cooking, stirring to soften the apples up a little, cooking for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally to cook evenly.
- Place the apple and fennel mixture into your baking dish and spread out evenly.
Crumble topping
- Place the flour, sliced almonds, sugar, salt, ground cinnamon and ground nutmeg into a bowl and stir to combine.
- Toss in 40 grams / 3 tablespoons of the cubed butter and cut together until it resembles a rough crumb mixture.
- Spoon over the apple fennel mixture evenly and spread out until fully covered.
- Top with small cubes of the remaining butter.
- Bake for 35 minutes until golden brown.
- Remove and allow to cool to warm.
- Spoon into bowls and serve with some pouring cream or scoops of ice cream.
- Dig in!
Notes
- Apples: The apples used here were Granny Smith apples thanks to their firm texture and light sweetness. It is recommended to use either Granny Smith or Royal Gala. These hold their shape during baking and a slight sweetness which requires less added sugar.
- Sliced almonds: The sliced almonds dd a great textural difference and complimentary flavor to the apples and fennel, though you could remove if you are allergic or don’t like them. You could replace with roughly chopped walnuts or pecans for a perfect fall flavor, if these are easier to source.
- Flavor of fennel: The anise flavor in fennel is a really beautiful flavor alongside the apples, though if you really can't stand it, this would work well without or even replacing the apples for pears would be great here.
- Baking dish: The baking dish used here is 24.5x17 cm / 9.5x6.5 inches which is small to medium sized.
Nutrition
Calories: 307kcal