The Amazing Summer Crumble: A Peach and Pistachio Delight
This summer dessert is full of fantastic flavors, featuring poached peaches with floral flavors of elderflower cordial and a really cheat version of a crumble on top with some shortbread biscuits, pistachio, and brown sugar. The perfect combination of flavors and textures comes together to create a truly unique and delicious treat.
To begin, the peaches need to be prepared by cutting them down and around, just twisting off from their skin. This is the best way to ensure that they come off easily and intact. If the peaches are nice and fresh, this process should yield perfect quarters of peach. The skin can then be left on for added texture and flavor.
Next, a poaching liquid needs to be made using elderflower cordial. The same principle applies as with other squash or fruit juices, but in this case, it's specifically designed to pair well with peaches. A glug of the cordial is all that's needed, along with enough water to turn it into a drinkable consistency, rather than a syrup which can be too strong. This will allow for the peaches to cook gently and evenly.
If fresh peaches are available, they should be used in this recipe as they'll provide the best flavor and texture. However, if not, tin peaches can be used instead. They're already partially cooked in tins, making them perfect for this recipe without having to undergo any further cooking time. In either case, the peaches will come up to a gentle simmer once heated.
Once the peaches have finished poaching, it's time to make the crumble topping. This is where things get really simple. Just take some shortbread biscuits and crush them into rough chunks, as desired. The goal here isn't for perfection but rather an effortless approach that saves all the awkward work of rubbing in butter and flour.
Adding a tablespoon or two of brown sugar helps enhance the overall flavor of the crumble while providing a bit of extra sweetness to balance out any tartness from the peaches. Just apply enough melted butter to bind everything together and you're ready for assembly.
Assembling the dessert is quite straightforward, with a focus on simplicity and minimal effort required. The poached peaches should be lined up in their respective quarters, leaving some space between each one for even cooking when they go into the oven later.
To add the crumble topping, there's enough of it to split evenly between two servings, so half can be placed atop each serving before popping them into the oven at 180 degrees Celsius for fifteen minutes.
By this time, the crumble should have turned golden brown and provided a delightful contrast in texture and flavor. Serving the warm crumble with some clotted cream and fresh mint adds an extra layer of sophistication to what might otherwise be a simple summer dessert. But trust us, it's anything but.
Paired with that classic British favorite, clotted cream is perfectly suited for balancing out the sweetness and tartness found within this delightful peach and pistachio crumble. And when served alongside some fresh mint, the combination takes on an unmistakable elegance and sophistication that elevates even the most basic of summer desserts into something truly special.
With its rich flavors, satisfying texture, and simple yet elegant presentation, it's no wonder this summery crumble is sure to become a new favorite in your household.
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with peach get a glug of that and then enough water to turn it into a drinkable drink as opposed to a syrup which is too strong at the moment and enough just to cover our peaches so if you can get hold of fresh peaches absolutely brilliant if not tin peaches would work fine and then you wouldn't have to poach them at all cuz they're already partially cooked in tin okay leave those there to come up to a gentle simmer and we're going to make a really simple crumble now we've made loads of crumbles before and I don't think any as simple as this this is stasio which works great with the peaches so if you can just take those nuts and crumble I think it's a great combination so if you can just chop up those pistachios into rough chunks we don't want sort of pistachio dust but we do want it quite fine and then I'm going to use our best cheat going some shortbread biscuits or short cake biscuits and that's all it is all you need to do is take them put over your bowl and use your brutal strength just to crush them that's literally it saves All That Awkward rubbing in of butter and flour that is it shortbread biscuits good to go pop up a stut in there this is a really easy recipe to do isn't it yes absolutely and and fresh flavors a way of getting fresh fruit into a dessert as well bit of brown sugar little bit of flour which is going to help it crumble and go crispy later on that's just a tablespoon of that and then the whole thing gets bound together with just a tiny knob of butter which should be melted okay so makes it even easier but if you stir that through really don't need a lot in this plenty of moisture going to come from our peaches which already like literally only need to Bubble away 3 or 4 minutes there I can begin to fish out so if I take these peaches out of here and just line on in our bow you see ready just feel they slightly soften they were already nicely ripe they don't take long at all and we're going to keep all the skin in there as well so I reckon you want kind of eight pieces two peaches worth there's enough in here for two people there we go perfect and some of that liquid in there as well yeah so you got something juicy in there got that fantastic pink color crumble your crumble over the top and you want a fair amount of this again there's enough there to split between two bowls so you want half of that crumble on there good perfect you want some of those peaches poking through but other than that all good that can go into our oven 180° C for 15 minutes goes nice and crunchy on top and then we can serve it with some clotted cream and that is a true summer crumble there we go look at that you can see all those pink blush juices leaking out the side there blushing look blushing some clotty cream you grab some mint it's a fantastic bit of clotty cream on top that will just soak into that when we serve it looks gorgeous and that you can smell it already a summer version of crumble it's Peach and pistachio crumble sorted look at that so much juice that is amazing Apple was my favorite but that is up there up there peach peach a summer version with the Elder flour and the pistache juice how simple is that crumble almost in salty it was saly little salt and crumble right there that's Soo good anyone can make thatthis is an amazing summer crumble it's Peach and pistachio so this summer dessert is full of fantastic flavors we've got our poach peaches the floral flavors of elderflower cial okay and then a really cheat version of a crumble on top with some shortbread biscuits pistachio and brown sugar we'll get our fresh peaches all we need to do is just qu to these so the best way to do it is to cut down and around and if they're nice and fresh they should just twist off like that okay and then you cut again around that one y and that's going to come off nice and easy e that pull that one out and that's what you're left with all we want is these quarters so still their skin on into the pan okay now these peaches we're going to cook very very gently in a poaching liquid and that's made with an elderflower Cordo so the same as you get a squash or something like that you like orange squash or whatever this is just an elderflower cordial very floral perfume but great with peach get a glug of that and then enough water to turn it into a drinkable drink as opposed to a syrup which is too strong at the moment and enough just to cover our peaches so if you can get hold of fresh peaches absolutely brilliant if not tin peaches would work fine and then you wouldn't have to poach them at all cuz they're already partially cooked in tin okay leave those there to come up to a gentle simmer and we're going to make a really simple crumble now we've made loads of crumbles before and I don't think any as simple as this this is stasio which works great with the peaches so if you can just take those nuts and crumble I think it's a great combination so if you can just chop up those pistachios into rough chunks we don't want sort of pistachio dust but we do want it quite fine and then I'm going to use our best cheat going some shortbread biscuits or short cake biscuits and that's all it is all you need to do is take them put over your bowl and use your brutal strength just to crush them that's literally it saves All That Awkward rubbing in of butter and flour that is it shortbread biscuits good to go pop up a stut in there this is a really easy recipe to do isn't it yes absolutely and and fresh flavors a way of getting fresh fruit into a dessert as well bit of brown sugar little bit of flour which is going to help it crumble and go crispy later on that's just a tablespoon of that and then the whole thing gets bound together with just a tiny knob of butter which should be melted okay so makes it even easier but if you stir that through really don't need a lot in this plenty of moisture going to come from our peaches which already like literally only need to Bubble away 3 or 4 minutes there I can begin to fish out so if I take these peaches out of here and just line on in our bow you see ready just feel they slightly soften they were already nicely ripe they don't take long at all and we're going to keep all the skin in there as well so I reckon you want kind of eight pieces two peaches worth there's enough in here for two people there we go perfect and some of that liquid in there as well yeah so you got something juicy in there got that fantastic pink color crumble your crumble over the top and you want a fair amount of this again there's enough there to split between two bowls so you want half of that crumble on there good perfect you want some of those peaches poking through but other than that all good that can go into our oven 180° C for 15 minutes goes nice and crunchy on top and then we can serve it with some clotted cream and that is a true summer crumble there we go look at that you can see all those pink blush juices leaking out the side there blushing look blushing some clotty cream you grab some mint it's a fantastic bit of clotty cream on top that will just soak into that when we serve it looks gorgeous and that you can smell it already a summer version of crumble it's Peach and pistachio crumble sorted look at that so much juice that is amazing Apple was my favorite but that is up there up there peach peach a summer version with the Elder flour and the pistache juice how simple is that crumble almost in salty it was saly little salt and crumble right there that's Soo good anyone can make that\n"
