Apple & Pear Crumble (Oat & Gluten-Free Vegan Recipe)

Autumn means a few things to me in the kitchen: pumpkins, chestnuts, and... apples! While we're fortunate enough to get apples all year round, there's nothing like cooking seasonally.
This recipe is oat-free, as many people with Coeliac's disease react to oats as they contain a protein very similar to gluten. So many gluten-free cookbooks include them despite this (not that I think GF books should be exclusively Coeliac-friendly). Even if you don't react to oats, be careful to watch out for cross-contamination. Unfortunately, gluten-free oats aren't currently being produced in or imported to Australia anyway, making the need for an oat-free crumble recipe all the more dire!

3 pears
3 green apples
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice

2 tablespoons DF butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup plain GF flour
1 cup almond meal
2 tablespoons almond flakes, for sprinkling

Preheat your oven to 160 degrees.

Peel and thinly slice the pears and apples. Coat them in the brown sugar and juice (mix with your hands for the best even coverage). Arrange them in a large baking dish.

In a small bowl, combine the butter, sugar, flour, and meal, and mix well to combine. Spoon over the top of the apples/pears, and use a wet spoon (or fingers) to spread the crumble mixture evenly over the top. Sprinkle the flakes over this.

Bake for forty minutes, and allow to cool before serving. It is best served warm from the oven with cool ice-cream, or pouring custard* (or both!)

The custard pictured is just Soy Land's Custard blended with vanilla almond milk in order to thin it down. If you find the taste of their custard quite harsh, this really changes the flavour and makes it far more palatable.