Pear, Chocolate and Ginger Crumble is simply heavenly. Once you’ve made this crumble you’ll want to make it again and again!

Pear, Chocolate and Ginger Crumble

Before Christmas I was tempted by all the buy 3 for 2 offers in the baking aisle and decided that crystallised ginger and bags of various nuts were an absolute must have. So I have to confess that all the nutty, gingery biscuits I had in my head became pipe dreams and I found myself after Christmas with my purchases still mainly in tact.

I have never used crystallised ginger before but love the flavour so decided to come up with a dish one day. My husband was a bit dubious about my idea so I googled Pear, Chocolate and Ginger Crumble and saw that Nigel Slater had made a Pear and Oat Chocolate Crumble – great minds think alike I thought! So I took my idea added a sprinkle of Nigel’s and so this dish was born.

You can play around with the topping putting in whatever nuts you have in your cupboard or if you don’t have any just leave them out and if you’re not keen on ginger then you can leave that out too – it’s your crumble! I’ve made this dish twice now and my family absolutely love it and it’s so simple to put together. To save on lemon juice (to stop the pears browning) I popped my them straight into the melted butter and sugar and gave them a good coating as I prepared them. The surface can only oxidise and go brown when it comes into contact with the air so coating will prevent this.

As this dish uses pears which can be bought cheaply as well as value chocolate and store cupboard ingredients I am entering it into Credit Crunch Munch which is run by myself and the lovely Helen at Fuss Free Flavours who is hosting this month. I am also entering Javelin Warriors Cookin w/Luv “Made with Love Mondays” challenge as this dish is made from scratch. Next I entering the “We Should Cocoa” challenge where the theme is fame as Nigel Slater helped me make this dish (so to speak) it’s run by Chocolate Teapot and Chocolate Log Blog and hosted by The Kitchen Maid this month! Then of course I have to enter Janice at Farmersgirl Kitchen “Dish of the Month” as I have adapted a Nigel Slater recipe.