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Michel Roux's Pear and Plum Crumble - 45min, Medium

Name: Michel Roux's Pear and Plum Crumble
Prep time: 55 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 100 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: plums halved and de-stoned; pears, peeled, cored and roughly chopped; sticks vanilla, split and seeds removed; sugar; port; cold butter, cubed; self-raising flour; rolled oats; pecan nuts, chopped; demerara sugar; Vanilla ice cream or cream, to serve

Discover the blissfully simple recipe for Michel Roux's Pear and Plum crumble. A golden crunch over a dish of aromatic, simmered fruit- tuck into this post-dinner indulgence.

Ingredients

600 gramsplums halved and de-stoned
500 gramspears, peeled, cored and roughly chopped
2sticks vanilla, split and seeds removed
100 gramssugar
100 millilitersport
75 gramscold butter, cubed
100 gramsself-raising flour
50 gramsrolled oats
60 gramspecan nuts, chopped
100 gramsdemerara sugar
1Vanilla ice cream or cream, to serve

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350F/180C/Gas 4.
Put the fruit in a wide pan with the vanilla seeds and pods, sugar and port. Bring to a simmer and loosely cover. Cook for 10-15 minutes until the fruit is tender, then tip into an oven proof baking dish and set aside to cool.
In a bowl rub together the butter and flour until well incorporated and a sand-like consistency, then add the oats and nuts. Finally add the sugar and mix everything together well. Sprinkle the mixture over the fruit and bake for 25- 30 minutes or until the top is lightly golden and the fruit is bubbling.
Serve right away with vanilla ice cream or cream.