Vanilla Fruit Strudel

Food and drink

20 March 2009 16:14

Lesley Waters cooks Vanilla Fruit Strudel – a dessert full of whole grain health! This light flaky pastry filled with vanilla fruit and crunchy Cheerios – delicious served warm with a dollop of reduced-fat crème fraiche.

Light flaky pastry filled with vanilla fruit and crunchy Cheerios – delicious served warm with a dollop of reduced-fat crème fraiche.

Serves 6
Preparation: 15 minutes
Cooking: 40 minutes 

Ingredients

350g/12oz ripe plums, halved, destined and sliced
4 ripe nectarines, halved, stone removed and sliced
65g/1½ oz Nestlé Cheerios
1 medium orange, juice only
1 vanilla pod, halved and seeds scraped out
1tbsp brown sugar
175g/6oz filo pastry
light olive oil spray
1½ tbsp flaked almonds
icing sugar for dusting 

Method

1. Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 200C/400F/Gas 6.
2. In a large bowl mix together the plums, nectarines, Cheerios, orange juice, vanilla seeds and brown sugar. Set to one side.
3. Cover the table with a clean tea towel or cloth.
4. Lay out the filo slightly overlapping by 10cm/4in into a 30cm/12in square. Lightly spray with light olive oil.
5. Scatter the fruit and Cheerio mixture evenly over the filo pastry leaving a 2.5cm/1in border.
6. Roll up using the cloth to help you. Transfer the strudel onto the centre of a non-stick baking tray lined with baking parchment and shape into a crescent.
7. Lightly spray the strudel with a little more light olive oil and scatter over the almonds. Bake in the oven for approx 35/40 minutes until crisp and golden.
8. Dust with icing sugar and serve warm.

Nutritional information

Per serving
196 cals (9.8% GDA)
3.6g fat (5.1% GDA)
0.4g saturates (2% GDA)
18.6g sugar (20.7% GDA)
0.4g salt (6.6% GDA)
½ serving of whole grain

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