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Pear, strawberry and macadamia crumble

Pear, strawberry and macadamia crumble
Australian Macadamias
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Australian Macadamias
australian-macadamias.org [1]
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6

Pear, strawberry and macadamia crumble

Ingredients

  • 6 Buerre Bosc pears, each peeled and cut into six segments, seeds removed
  • 50g sugar
  • Zest and juice 1 orange
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 1 vanilla pod, split and seeds scraped
  • 1 punnet strawberries, hulled, large halved


Method

  1. Preheat oven to 170°C
  2. Place the pears, sugar, orange juice and zest, cinnamon and vanilla pod and seeds in a saucepan. Over a moderate heat simmer gently for approximately 15 minutes until the pears soften. Add strawberries and set aside
  3. Spoon the pear mixture into a large ovenproof dish and sprinkle over the topping (alternatively divide the mixture evenly between six small ovenproof dishes and place on a baking sheet before placing in the oven)
  4. Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until golden


Toppings

Ingredients

  • 200g plain flour
  • 100g cold butter, diced
  • 90g raw caster sugar
  • 100g raw macadamias, coarsely chopped


Method

  1. To make the crumble, place the flour, butter, sugar and macadamias in a large bowl and rub the mixture together with your fingers until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs


Tips & Hints

  1. Serve with creme fraiche, cream, Greek yoghurt or vanilla ice cream

Links
[1] http://australian-macadamias.org