Fermanagh Apple and Oat Pudding
A comforting Ulster baked pudding of spiced tart apples layered with buttery toasted rolled oats and brown sugar, baked until crisp and golden.
- Prep
- 20 min
- Cook
- 40 min
- Total
- 60 min
- Servings
- 4
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Calories
- 410 kcal
Equipment
- •Medium ovenproof baking dish
- •Frying pan
- •Mixing bowl
- •Peeler
- •Wooden spoon
Nutrition
Per serving, approximate
- Calories
- 410 kcal
- fat
- 19 g
- carbs
- 58 g
- fibre
- 6 g
- protein
- 5 g
- calories
- 410 kcal
Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 180C (160C fan).
- 2
Grease a medium ovenproof baking dish thoroughly with a little butter.
- 3
Melt the butter in a frying pan over a low hob heat.
- 4
Add the rolled oats to the pan and stir for five minutes until lightly toasted.
- 5
Take the pan off the heat and stir in half of the brown sugar and the salt.
- 6
Toss the sliced apples in a bowl with the remaining brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon zest, and lemon juice.
- 7
Spread half of the seasoned apples across the bottom of the prepared dish and splash over the water.
- 8
Scatter half of the buttery oat mixture evenly over the apple layer.
- 9
Layer the remaining apples over the oats and finish with the rest of the oat mixture on top.
- 10
Bake on the middle oven shelf for 40 minutes until the apples are tender and the top is golden.
- 11
Leave the pudding to rest for five minutes before serving warm.
Chef's tips
Bramley apples cook down to a luscious, soft texture that pairs best with the crisp oats. If the oat topping colours too quickly before the apples soften, tent a piece of foil loosely over the dish for the final 10 minutes.
Ingredient substitutions
- Bramley cooking apples → tart eating apples like Granny Smith, reducing the brown sugar by one tablespoon
- rolled porridge oats → gluten-free rolled oats
- soft light brown sugar → Demerara sugar or caster sugar
Storage
Store leftovers covered in the refrigerator for up to three days.
Reheating
Reheat in an oven at 170C for 15 minutes until piping hot, or warm individual portions in the microwave.
Common mistakes to avoid
- •Slicing the apples too thickly so they do not cook through in time
- •Burning the oats in the frying pan before assembling the pudding
- •Omitting the splash of water which helps the base layer of apples steam and soften
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