Easy and Delicious Bilberry Crumble with Custard Recipe

I love going for walks as I am always on the look out for what grows wildly around where we live as I love to forage for wild fruits. On one of our walks with some friends to The Cloud, we found these Bilberries growing wildly along the path. They are ready to be picked between August to September.  It took my kids and I about an hour to pick these as the berries are tiny and we needed to pick them one at a time (not mentioning the many that got eaten). Now if you are not familiar with bilberries, these look smaller to blueberries and are often found around hilly areas. They can be eaten as it is, made into jams, pies, sorbets, ice-creams, liqueurs or wines. Today I will be sharing a quick and easy recipe where I have made a delicious Bilberry Crumble Recipe with English Custard or Crème Anglaise (full recipe as well on a separate blog).   Rich in nutrients, this is a great way to get kids to eat wild fruits as well. 

What are bilberry and are they the same as blueberries?

Bilberries, also known as European wild blueberries, are part of the same plant family as blueberries but are usually smaller in size, darker in color, almost black. Traditionally the dried, ripe fruit and leaves are used to make medicine. Bilberry is used by mouth to treat poor circulation that can cause the legs to swell. Some people take bilberry for diabetes, high blood pressure, gout, urinary tract infections (UTIs), and many other conditions.  Here’s a youtube video of how to make this easy and delicious bilberry crumble recipe.

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Easy and Delicious Bilberry Crumble with Custard Recipe

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Serves: 4 Prep Time: 15 mins Cooking Time: 20 mins 20 mins

Nutrition facts: 200 calories 20 grams fat

Rating: 3.1/5

( 10 voted )

Ingredients

Billberry Mix:

• 250g Bilberries
• 50g Castor Sugar
• 50g Ground Almond
• 2-3 tbsp Apple Puree/Cooked Apple (Optional, or you can add chopped apples)
• 1-2 tsp Cornflour

Crumble Topping:

• 100g Plain Flour
• 50g Butter
• 25g Dermerara Sugar

Instructions

1. Heat the oven to 200 C (Fan Oven).
Mix the sugar and ground almond, apple puree with the bilberries and add it into the buttered pie dish. You can use a round 7" pie bowl, I have used 2 smaller 5" baking dish.

2. Mix in the cornflour with the bilberries

3. Add the butter and flour into a bowl and work with your fingers until it is mixed well into a sand/crumbs like mixture. Then add in the Demerara sugar. At this point, I tend to freeze this mixture for 10 minutes if the butter is soft.

4. Add a sprinkle of water into the crumble mix to bring it together then sprinkle the mix on top of the bilberries and bake in the oven for around 20 minutes until the top is golden and bubbly.

5. Serve with vanilla ice-cream and/or homemade custard.

Notes

This is best made and eaten on the day as it is moist. If you want to make it in advance then mix the bilberries and keep this in the fridge, freeze the crumble topping and assemble it just before baking the next day. Feel free to also add a dash of Crème de cassis (liquer) if you have it (into the bilberry mix).