Pear Crumble

Ingredients for 4 people:

• 50 g butter
• 1 kg pears
• 30 g currants
• A pinch of ground cinnamon
• 15 g sugar
• Ground cinnamon
• Butter to grease the mould
• Whipped cream for serving
• Ingredients for the dough:
• 100 g sugar
• 100 g flour
• 100 g ground almonds
• Pinch of salt
• 100 g cold butter

Preparación:

1. Prepare the dough:
2. Place the sugar, flour, almonds and salt in the mixing jar.
3. Mix on speed 2 for 2 minutes.
4. Add the butter – cold – cut into small pieces and mix with the rest of the ingredients on speed 2, 2 minutes, until you obtain a kind of “coarse semolina”.
5. Wrap the dough in cling film. Form into a cylinder and store in the fridge or freezer.
6. Place the butter in the mixing jar.
7. Select “sauce”, speed 1, 60 degrees, 1 minute.
8. Peel the pears and remove the cores. Put them in the jar, cut into quarters, and select “sauce”, speed 1, 80 degrees, 6 minutes.
9. Mix in the currants, sugar and cinnamon.
10. Select “sauce”, speed 1, 80 degrees, 6 minutes.
11. Brush a baking dish with butter. Place a base of pears on top.
12. Grate – with a grater – the cold dough on top of the pears.
13. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees Celsius for 20-25 minutes or until the crumble is golden brown.
14. Serve the crumble warm, accompanied with whipped cream.