Vegetable Crumble is a family favourite in our house.
The girls liked it when they were still living at home, and my husband loves it, he’ll always enjoy it whenever it’s on offer. Made using ordinary root vegetables with a really lovely topping.
How do I make vegetable crumble?
Chop an onion, potatoes (no need to peel) and carrots. Saute all the root vegetable in a little oil until soft. You really need to do this, once you add the tomatoes, the potato and carrot only soften very slowly because of the acid in the tomatoes, and boiled onion is not the flavour we are after here.
Once the veg are cooked through, add a tin of tomatoes, a couple of bay leaves and some chopped parsley if you have it. No need to worry if you have no herbs, you’ll be fine without them.
Tip the vegetable mix into the baking dish you will be using.
Mix all the topping ingredients together, these include flour and oats, cheese, vegetable oil and a handful of sesame seeds. Once completely mixed, pile on top of the base and cook until golden brown
What is a savoury crumble like?
I have made many variations of savoury crumbles. They are filling and sustaining, they do have slow release oats in there after all. Packed full of vegetables in a way that children, and other veggie-phobes may enjoy. It is a tasty mix that most people seem to like.
This can be made vegan be simply omitting or substituting the cheese.
Want a gluten free crumble? Just use a gluten free flour, and check your oats.
Variations for savoury crumbles
- Any root vegetable you have will work well here. If you have seeds of any description, a spoon or two in the topping is delicious, I like sesame and sunflower.
- The base can be any vegetables that you think will work, I’ve tried loads of different combinations and like all of them so far.
- try parsnip and chestnut
- add mushrooms
- use swede, carrot, potato and mushroom
- If you don’t have any cheese, leave it out, the crumble will still taste lovely.
- Use about half a tin of condensed soup instead of the tin of tomatoes
- Any seeds will work – sesame, pumpkin, sunflower etc
Vegetable crumble features in weekly meal plan 3
More savoury crumbles you might like
Vegetarian Christmas Meal Plan – Vegan Walnut and Chestnut Crumble
Ingredients
Topping
- 100 ml oil 14p from a 1 litre bottle
- 1 kg white potato
Base
- 150 g white potato
- 340 g carrots
- 185 g swede
- 150 g onion
- 400 g tomatoes
- 400 g beans cannellini, haricot etc
- 3 tbslp parsley fine chopped, optional
- 2 bay leaves optional
Instructions
- Prepare the vegetables and saute in a little oil / butter / fat from the joint until soft.You really need to do this, once you add the tomatoes, the potato and carrot only soften very slowly because of the acid in the tomatoes, and boiled onion is not the flavour we are after here.
- While the vegetables are softening, slice about a kilo of potatoes into coins, ??? thick. You can either peel them or not.
- Tip into a microwavable dish, cover them with a lid or plate and microwave until soft. It takes 10 minutes in my microwave. Set aside.
- Once the veg are cooked through, add a tin of tomatoes, a couple of bay leaves and some chopped parsley if you have it. No need to worry if you have no herbs, you'll be fine without them.
- Tip in a tin of beans or chickpeas, juice and all
- Season with salt and pepper, I used a teaspoon of each and a sprinkle of chilli flakes, not many
- Tip the vegetable mix into the baking dish you will be using.
- You might need to bubble the mix to reduce the liquid down a bit
- Lay the cooked potato slices over the top
- Drizzle with oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper - I like to use Aleppo pepper which looks pretty, or you could use cayenne or paprika.
- Now blast in a hot oven until the topping is crispy, and the base is hot, serve immediately
Equipment Needed
Notes
Variations for savoury vegetable bakes
- Any root vegetable you have will work well here.Â
- The base can be any vegetables that you think will work, I’ve tried loads of different combinations and like all of them so far.
- try parsnip and chestnut
- use different kinds of beans, or spicy mixed beans
- swap the beans for big green or brown lentils
- use mushroom ragout as the baseÂ
- The vegetable bake is vegan as it is, or you can add all kinds of meaty things
- add cooked bits of bacon, pepperoni etc
- or chopped chickenÂ
- or maybe prawnsÂ
I have made the vegetable crumble a couple of times now. It gets better each time. My friend enjoys it too