Who’s Hamish? He’s Helena’s husband who has been the perfect ‘housewife’ during lockdown and nailed the art of one particular pud: the Amaretto crumble! Why is this relevant? Well, one little Three Drinkers Instagram live where it was mentioned and demand for the recipe has been off the charts, so here it is! Have a go, have a taste and please tag us in your photos on Instagram. (@thethreedrinkers @wine.husband)
Ingredients
1 x Punnet of strawberries, chopped to 2cm squared.
1 x Medium cooking apple, peeled and diced as above.
3 x Medium sized, very ripe bananas. Mashed.
30ml Amaretto
1 x pinch of salt
1 x pinch of cinnamon (optional)
For the crumble
50g Ground almonds
100g Plain flour
85g Salted butter
50g Demerara sugar
Handful of porridge oats
1 x pinch of salt
1 tbsp brown sugar
6 x chunks of butter approx 1 cm cubed.
1 x tbsp Mascarpone or vanilla ice cream to serve.
Hamish Nicklin and his amazing Amaretto crumble
Method
Turn on the oven to 200 degrees (fan). Mix all the fruit with a pinch of salt (and cinnamon if using) in an ovenproof dish and pour over the Amaretto. Set aside. In a bowl, add the almonds, flour, sugar, pinch of salt and butter together and rub the mixture in between your fingers until it’s all combined and is the size of large breadcrumbs. Alternatively, you can chuck the flour, butter and almonds into a blender and pulse it until it’s combined, then remove and rub in the sugar until you get to the large, sticky breadcrumb stage.
Spread the crumble mixture evenly on top of the fruit in the dish. Sprinkle over your handful of oats so they coat the crumble mixture. Sprinkle your tablespoon of brown sugar evenly over that. Space the cubes of butter around the top.
Bake for 30 - 40 minutes until the top is golden brown and the fruit starts bubbling at the side. Serve with a blob of Mascarpone or ice cream. Naughty, but sooo nice.
Serve with Tokaji sweet wine if you can get it! With its marmalade sweetness, honey richness and tart acidity, it’s the perfect match.
TRY: Tokaji from The Royal Tokaji company. Buy it here.
TRY: Amaretto from Disaronno. Buy it here
Good luck!
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