Ingredients:

• 2 green (granny smith) apples
• 1 1/2 cups blackberries
• 1/4 cup light brown sugar
• zest and juice of one orange
• Butter for greasing

For topping:

• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1/2 cup castor sugar
• 1/2 cup slivered almonds crushed
• 2 tablespoons cold butter
• 1/2 teaspoon crushed cardamom seeds
• Pinch of salt

Method:

• Preheat oven to 400F
• Peel and core apples.  Cut them into about 1/4 inch cubes
• Grease a baking pan and set aside
• Add cut apples to the baking dish and scatter blackberries over apples
• Sprinkle brown sugar and orange zest evenly over the blackberries
• Pour orange juice over the fruits.
• To make the topping cut butter into small chunks
• Rub butter with flour until it resembles coarse bread crumbs
• Add sugar, slivered almonds, salt and cardamom and mix well
• Scatter topping over the fruits and press lightly
• Bake for about 30-35 minutes
• If the topping is not browned, increase heat to 425F and bake for another 5 minutes.
• Serve warm with ice-cream.

Tagged: almonds, apple, blackberries, brown sugar, butter, cardamom