Christmas 🎄 gluten free mince crumble,

Good evening folks

When you're first diagnosed with a food intolerance all you see is food that you can not eat, then you start to look at all the foods that you can eat and from different cultures and then variations on a theme.

With mince pies you only get a small dollop of mince. So this is what I often make this time of year, I use 150g plain GF flour 60g butter and 30g sugar and for the mince I use one jar of good quality mince and 2 Bramley apples with some sultanas and some chia seeds as chia seeds with cooked fruit is really nice as it absorbs a lot of moisture so the fruit is more like a compote than just stewed fruit and chia seeds pack a nutritional punch, the crumble does not use much sugar and I always use brown sugar.

I'd either have it with live yoghurt or cream and today its coconut cream. For those of you who want to make a simple GF flour mix rice flour and tapioca starch make a good combo. And you want to use 20-25% tapioca starch to rice flour. This mix is also really good for GF biscuits etc as you usually use eggs.

So here's one of my favourite Christmas dishes 😊🎄

[Zest]

Mmmmm, this looks lovely - I particularly like the notion of Coconut Cream - sounds very creamy. I only had 2 courses for my Festive Christmas lunch today - but this would have been a fantastic dessert!

Zest

[Hidden in reply to Zest]

Hi Zest, thank you...I only had 2 courses oh poor you LOL...sometimes less is better, as that starter and a main course would be perfect for me. So I hope that you enjoyed it 😊

Jerry 😊

[Zest in reply to Hidden]

lol - Yes, I 'only' had 2 courses It was the right amount, for definite!

[Activity2004 Administrator]

Love how the crumble you did came out, Hidden ! Sounds great!

[Hidden in reply to Activity2004]

Hey thanks, I love crumbles and often have apple ones. 🍏

Jerry 😊

[Activity2004 Administrator in reply to Hidden]

Wonderful, Jerry!😀

[Hidden]

looks lovely Jerry, and i would love to have some with some cream. i've forgot all about mince pies but i was looking at chrismas puding recipes yesterday..and ended up thinking maybe just try the fruit cake again.☺

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Thanks March, I do like a good Christmas pudding and I’ m very fond of fruit cake, so it all sounds good to me 😊

[Kitten-whiskers Administrator Vegan star]

That looks lovely Jerry : >

[Hidden in reply to Kitten-whiskers]

Hey thanks K-w 😊