EMW || Plum pear hazelnut crumble

Plums, pears, hazelnuts and miso are match made in sweet umami heaven. Photo credit Carmen’s Kitchen - I will upload with my own once I take a good one like this!

INGREDIENTS

Fruit filling

800 g plums, stoned removed & quartered

2 pears, cored & cut into small chunks

1/2 cup (125 ml) water

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 tsp ground cinnamon (or 1 cinnamon stick)

½ tsp ground nutmeg

1 tbsp brown sugar (optional depending on ripeness of fruit)

1-2 tsp miso

Crumble topping

80 g butter, melted

1 tsp miso, whisked into the melted butter

½ cup almond meal

1 cup quinoa flakes

1 cup hazelnuts, roughly chopped

¼ cup brown sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

½–1 tsp baking powder

METHOD

Preheat oven to 160-170°C.

Prepare the fruit in a saucepan combine plums, pears, water, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar and miso.

Simmer gently for 5–7 minutes until the fruit just softens and releases its juices. Transfer fruit to a baking dish.

To make the crumble topping - combine all the dry ingredients in a medium sized bowl. Then combine the melted butter and miso and stir until a smoothish paste. Add the miso butter to the dry mix and bring together with your fingers until everything is well combined - its good if it’s crumply and a little clumpy 

Scatter the crumble evenly over the fruit. Bake for 20 or so minutes until the topping is golden and the fruit is bubbling around the edges.

Buon appetito 🍋