Ingredients
- 3 ~ 4 medium size apples
- 100g of sugar
- 70g of butter
- 150g of flour
- Frozen mixed berries (works well with frozen mangoes too)
- Optionnal for precooking -> Lemon juice
Introduction
Apples, like many fruits (except bananas maybe), are expensive in Japan. Of course it really depends on the season and on where you buy them but usually I only buy 1 or 2 apples at a time. It spend a good five minutes checking every fruits and it always seems like an big investment to me :) Though sometimes when I buy a bag of 4, 5 apples, they are floury and are not very good to eat. Then I make crumbles :) . Frozen fruits are pretty cheap and easy to find. You can make this recipe with apples only or add mixed frozen berries / frozen mangoes.
Instructions
- Peel and cut apples into dice.
- Precook them in a pot with a bit of water, sugar and lemon juice. If you don't have lemon juice, don't add it.
- Once soft, remove from fire and let it cool down.
- Add the berries to the pot and mix well. You can also add berries separately to have two distinct layers of fruits.
- Pre-heat oven to 180°C.
- In a large bowl, add sugar and flour. Mix well together.
- Cut the butter into cubes and add them to the flour / sugar mix.
- Mix with your hands to get a sandy texture. Don't mix too much, your hands will melt the butter and you want to keep some big pieces in the mix.
- In a baking pan, add fruits with the batter on top. In the oven for 25 minutes.