Mix all the topping ingredients together and put to one side
100 ml oil, 100 g flour, 75 g oats, 100 g cheddar, 50 g salted peanuts
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.
340 g white potato, 340 g carrots, 150 g onion
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.
400 g tinned tomatoes, 3 tbslp parsley, 2 bay leaves
Season with salt and pepper, I used a teaspoon of each and a sprinkle of chilli flakes, not many
Put the base in an oven proof dish and pile the topping over it
Bake at 190° for about half an hour. If you have any available, a crisp green vegetable goes well
Notes
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
If you don’t have any cheese, leave it out, the crumble will still taste lovely