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Strawberry crumble recipe with oats

Strawberry crumble is an easy and popular summer fruit dessert. It's made of two layers: a strawberry filling and a crumble topping with oats and flour. Read text above for tips, variations, other recipes with strawberries and other fruit dessert ideas! :)
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword Crumble, oats, Strawberries
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Servings 8 people

Ingredients

For the Strawberry filling:

  • 2 lbs fresh strawberries trimmed and cut in half or quarters depending on size, see notes
  • 1 to 2 Tbsp lemon juice
  • 2 Tbsp cornstarch or other starch
  • 4 Tbsp sugar 1/4 cup | 50 g sugar, white granulated sugar, brown sugar or half of each
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

For the crumble topping:

  • ¾ cup all purpose flour 100 g
  • ¾ cup sugar 150 g or a little less
  • 1/2 to 3/4 cup old fashioned oats 45 g to 68 g
  • ½ tsp cinnamon powder
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 1/2 cup cold unsalted butter cut into small cubes 8 Tbsp | 110 g

To serve:

  • vanilla Ice cream optional

Instructions

  1. Rinse strawberries, drain, trim and cut into halves or quarters, depending on size.
  2. Preheat oven to 375°F | 190°C.

Make the strawberry filling:

  1. In a bowl, toss strawberries with all the other strawberry filling ingredient. Pour mixture in the baking dish. You can toss the ingredients directly in the dish if you want.

Make the crumble topping:

  1. In another bowl, mix flower, sugar, salt and spices. Add the butter and crumble with the tip of your fingers. Work fast so you don't melt the butter.

  2. Add oats and mix to coat.

  3. Sprinkle this crumble on top of the strawberry filling.

Bake the crumble:

  1. Bake in the hot oven, middle rack, about 30 minutes, or until strawberry filling is bubbly on the edges of the baking dish and the topping golden brown.

To serve :

  1. Serve warm, with vanilla Ice cream.

Recipe Notes

STRAWBERRIES

You can use frozen strawberries. No need to defrost before using them.

Preferably, use organic strawberries. For non organic strawberries, see how to wash them to get rid of pesticides.

BAKING DISH SIZE

Use a baking dish (casserole dish | pie dish) or a cast iron pan of about 2 liters,  1 3/4" to 2" | 4.5 to 5 cm deep.

Choose one of these baking dishes (approximate size):

1 pie dish, what I used here, 9" or 10" | 23 to 26 cm
1 square baking dish 8 x 8" or 9 x 9" | 23 x 23 cm or 25 x 25 cm
1 oval baking dish, about 12" | 30.5 cm
1 rectangular baking dish 11 x 7" | 28 x 18 cm

MEASURING CUPS & SPOONS

I use American measuring cups and spoons.