Pear And Chocolate Crumble Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 4 ramekins.
• Prepare pear base: Combine pears, brown sugar, chocolate chips, and cinnamon in a bowl. Distribute evenly among the prepared ramekins.
• Prepare topping: Combine flour and sugar in a bowl. Add butter and mix until crumbly. Stir in chocolate chips. Pack crumble topping firmly over pear mixture in the ramekins.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the crumble topping browns, about 50 minutes. Allow to cool slightly before serving, about 10 minutes.

Steps:

• Place the flour, sugar and butter in a food processor. Pulse until it forms a fine powder. Add the oats and pulse to mix. Chill.
• Peel and core the pears. Cut into small cubes about an inch in diameter. Put the pears in a saucepan with the lemon juice and the sugar. Bring to the boil and then simmer for a while until the pears begin to tenderise. This depends on how ripe your pears are. If they are like bullets then you may need to do this for 20 to 30 minutes. If they are juicy and ripe then just bring to the boil. Allow to cool.
• Preheat oven to 200 deg Celsius.
• When the pears are cool, place them an oven proof dish. Add the chocolate and give it a mix. Do not be tempted to add more chocolate, it will over power the dish! Finally add the topping and sprinkle with some more brown sugar.
• Cook for 20-25 minutes or until piping hot.
• Serve with custard or vanilla ice cream and enjoy.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Drain the pears (keeping the syrup) and cut each half in half. Tip into a dish or ovenproof pan about 22cm across. Drizzle 2-3 tbsp of the syrup from the can over them.
• Melt the butter and syrup in a saucepan, then stir in the oats and a pinch of salt. Quickly mix in the chocolate, but don't let it melt. Tip the mixture over the pears.
• Bake for 30 mins until golden and crisp. Cool for 5 mins before serving with some double cream or ice cream, if you like.