blueberry grunt recipe

Nova Scotia blueberry grunt is a classic East Coast fruit dessert! This is a very simple, traditional recipe which makes the most of seasonal wild blueberries.

Nova Scotia Blueberry Grunt

blueberries

water

sugar

butter

all-purpose flour

baking powder

salt

butter (room temperature)

milk

Bring the blueberries, water, sugar, and butter to a boil in a medium-large pot that has a tight-fitting lid. Cook the blueberries for 3 to 5 minutes. Reduce the heat to medium-low and continue to simmer the berries until the liquid is syrupy, about 8 to 10 minutes.

While the berries are cooking make the dumpling dough. In a medium-large bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt with a fork. Using your hands, rub the butter into the flour until the mixture is coarse and crumbly. Add the milk, then use a fork to mix everything together to a soft dough. Set aside.

Once the berries are cooked, use a spoon to drop chunks of dumpling dough all over the hot berries. Keep going until all of the dough has been used. Cover the pot with a large square of parchment paper and top it with the pot lid. Continue to simmer the berries for 15 minutes. Do not open the pot lid while the dumplings are steaming.

Remove the lid from the pot, and ***carefully*** lift off the parchment paper (be mindful of the hot steam underneath the paper which can burn your skin!!!). The top of the paper will be quite wet from the condensation of cooking. Do not let it spill into the pot! Serve blueberry grunt warm from the pot topped with ice cream or whipped cream or both.

Can I cook the blueberries cobbler in the oven instead

I have a ton of blueberries from my bushes and I was looking for something to make. I used this recipe for the technique - I had never heard of making a cobbler-type dish on the stove. I made the blueberry part substituting in 1/2 cup cranberries and using splenda instead of sugar. It worked well. I just used bisquick for the cobbler part and followed the directions on cooking and it came out perfect.

My grandfather made this in the fall when our large extended family would go pick wild blueberries here in Washington state. He made in a cast iron Dutch oven with the lid on that he would put in a hole he'd dug in the ground. He'd then cover with hot coals from the campfire and cover everything with a layer of dirt and let it cook. We'd serve it with fresh hand cranked homemade vanilla ice cream. So good!

First off, I just want to say how much I love that photo of the blueberries on the plate.  Absolutely stunning.  Now, as for the recipe itself, it sounds amaaaazing.  I always wondered what made a grunt a grunt (though I never looked it up for some reason).  Delightfully simple, and perfect for the explosion of blueberries here on the West Coast.  Cheers!

I used to love seeing my mother make blueberry grunt on the stove. I also remember burning my mouth with the hot blueberries. Good tips on where to source the berries in HRM!

Your photographs of Nova Scotia Blueberry Grunt looks so delicious, Kelly.  Wild blueberries are so wonderful - I can imagine how good this would taste, especially with vanilla ice cream melting on top.  Yum.  :)  Thanks so much for sharing.

You bring me right back to my childhood with this recipe.  I grew up in Newfoundland, which is right next door to Nova Scotia, so I know all about picking blueberries the second half of every summer break.  My mom used to make these grunts all the time.  Thank you for the memories.  I have to try making my own version!

I love the simplicity of this recipe and those wild blueberries! Gorgeous dessert for the summertime :)

There is no such thing as "too much blueberry" - it is sooo goood, particularly when you make smething as delicious as this grunt. Love the recipe and really looking forward to trying it!

That bowl of blueberries just had me salivating.... there is nothing like freshly picked WILD bluberries. The ones in the stores just don't cut it.

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Blueberry grunt is basically a cobbler, however, where cobbler is baked in the oven, grunt is traditionally made on the stovetop. To make Nova Scotia blueberry grunt, wild blueberries are first cooked, and then topped with bits of dumpling dough. The whole mixture is then steamed on the stovetop in a tightly covered Dutch oven. It’s said as the dumplings steam, you can hear the berries “grunting” in the pot.

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