Name: Three Blue Ducks’ baked apple, soy caramel, crumble and cream
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 200 gm (2¼ cups) rolled oats; 75 gm honey; 40 gm unsalted butter, melted; 40 gm brown sugar; 3 dried dates, thinly sliced; 8 roasted almonds, coarsely chopped; 200 gm caster sugar; 20 ml whisky; 3 tsp soy sauce, or to taste; 6 Granny Smith apples, coarsely chopped into bite-sized pieces; To serve: double cream

Three Blue Ducks’ baked apple, soy caramel, crumble and cream

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for baked apple, soy caramel, crumble and cream by Three Blue Ducks restaurant in NSW.

Serves 6

Prep

25M

Cook

20M

Total

45M

“A wonderfully flavoursome dish from the caramelised apples to the organic oats and completely natural honey,” says Shannon Debreceny.

Ingredients

200 gm (2¼ cups) rolled oats

75 gm honey

40 gm unsalted butter, melted

40 gm brown sugar

3 dried dates, thinly sliced

8 roasted almonds, coarsely chopped

200 gm caster sugar

20 ml whisky

3 tsp soy sauce, or to taste

6 Granny Smith apples, coarsely chopped into bite-sized pieces

To serve: double cream

Method

Main

1.Preheat oven to 160C. Combine oats, honey, butter, brown sugar, dates and almonds in a bowl, mix well and bake on an oven tray lined with baking paper until golden (20 minutes).

2.Meanwhile, heat a large frying pan over medium-high heat, scatter sugar over and cook until a light caramel forms (4-5 minutes), add 200ml water (be careful as hot caramel will spit) and stir until dissolved (2-3 minutes), add whisky and soy, stir to combine, add apple, stir to coat well and simmer until apple softens (3-6 minutes). Divide apple mixture among six 300ml ovenproof bowls and keep warm.

3.Spoon almond topping over apple mixture and serve with double cream.