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Sloe gin-soaked plums with oat and nut crumble

Spice, vanilla and ruby-red sloe gin complement the sweet plums in this grown-up dessert

Spice, vanilla and ruby-red sloe gin complement the sweet plums in this grown-up dessert

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Cooking Time

Cook: 1 Hour

Cooking Time

Serves: 8

Cooking Time

Price: 55p per serving

Nutritional Information

Each 96g serving contains

Energy
879kj
210kcal
11%
Fat
6.6g
Med
9%
Saturates
2.3g
Med
12%
Sugars
17.3g
High
19%
Salt
0.02g
Low
<1%
of your reference intake.
Typical energy values per 100g:
916kj/219kcal

Ingredients

1 vanilla pod

8 plums, halved and destoned

4tbsp dark muscovado sugar

100ml sloe gin (regular gin or raspberry gin will also work)

1 cinnamon stick

2 balls stem ginger from a jar, chopped

75g plain flour

30g unsalted butter

30g rolled oats

20g hazelnuts, chopped

20g flaked almonds

Method

1
Preheat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4.
2
Split the vanilla pod and scrape out the seeds. Toss the pod and seeds in an ovenproof dish with the plums, half the sugar, sloe gin, cinnamon stick and stem ginger. Arrange the plums cut side up, cover with foil and bake for 25 mins until tender.
3
Meanwhile, to make the crumble topping, rub together the plain flour and butter until it resembles fine crumbs. Stir through the rest of the sugar, oats and hazelnuts.
4
Baste the plums with the juices from the dish, then top each one with 1tbsp of the crumble. Sprinkle over the flaked almonds. Return to the oven and cook, uncovered, for 20 mins until the crumble is golden.