Peach & Blueberry Grunt

  • Ingredients 10 Ingredients
  • Total time 50 min total
  • Servings Serves Serves 6
  • Difficulty Medium
  • Cuisine United States
  • Category Dessert
Recipe byThe ZestyPlate Kitchen
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A warm American fruit pudding of juicy peaches and blueberries under spiced cinnamon-sugar swirls, baked until crisp and golden.

A grunt is an old-fashioned fruit pudding topped with soft, cinnamon-scented dough, and this peach and blueberry one tastes of high summer. The fruit bubbles away underneath while swirls of spiced dough bake up golden on top. Served warm, it tends to vanish almost as fast as you can dish it out.
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Prep 25 min Cook 25 min Total 50 min Medium
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Ingredients

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  • 1 tsp Corn Flour
  • Zest of 1 Orange
  • 2 tbs Caster Sugar
  • 6 Peaches
  • 250g Blueberries
  • 200g Self-Raising Flour
  • 50g Butter
  • 100g Muscovado Sugar
  • 1 tsp Cinnamon
  • 6 tblsp Milk
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Desert Pudding Fruity
Peach & Blueberry Grunt

Preparation

  1. Heat the oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Butter a wide, shallow ovenproof dish. Blend the cornflour with the orange zest and juice, then tip into a large pan with the sugar. Halve, stone and slice the peaches and add them. Bring slowly to the boil, stirring gently until the sauce turns shiny and thickens, about 3-4 minutes. Off the heat, stir in the blueberries and tip into the prepared dish.
  2. Put the flour in a mixing bowl and add the 50g butter. Rub it in until the mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs, then stir in half the sugar. Combine the remaining sugar with the cinnamon and set it aside.
  3. Add the milk to the dry ingredients and bring it together into a soft dough. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface, knead briefly, then roll into an oblong roughly 16x24cm. Brush with melted butter and scatter evenly with the spiced sugar. Roll up from one long edge and cut into 12 slices. Arrange them around the top of the dish, leaving the centre open.
  4. Bake for 20-25 minutes, until the topping is crisp and golden. Serve warm.

Tips from the ZestyPlate Kitchen

  • Choose peaches that are ripe but still firm so they keep their shape instead of dissolving into the sauce.
  • Leave the middle of the dish uncovered; the fruit needs to bubble up and the topping needs to cook through.
  • Brush the rolled dough with melted butter before scattering the spiced sugar for the neatest swirl.
  • Serve it warm with cream, custard or a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Frequently Asked Questions

The name supposedly comes from the grunting noise the fruit makes as it bubbles and steams beneath the dough. It is a traditional dish from the eastern United States and Canada.

Yes. Frozen peaches and blueberries go straight in, no thawing needed, though give it a few extra minutes in the oven and a touch more cornflour to thicken the juices.

Of course. Apple and blackberry, plums, or mixed berries all make a fine grunt. Adjust the sugar depending on how tart the fruit is.

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