Low Fat Dessert Recipes - Vanilla Fruit Strudel

Lesley Water’s light flaky pastry filled with vanilla fruit and crunchy Cheerios is delicious with a dollop of crème fraiche.

Vanilla Fruit Strudel

Serves: 6

Prep time: 15 minutes

Cooking time: 40 minutes

Ingredients:

350g (12oz) ripe plums, halved, de-stoned 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

Reduced-fat creme fraiche, for serving

Step By Step:

1. Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 200°C/400°F/gas mark 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. Lay out the filo slightly overlapping by 10cm/4in into a 30cm/12in square. Lightly spray with light olive oil.

4. Scatter the fruit and Cheerio mixture evenly over the filo pastry leaving a 2.5cm/1in border. Roll up using the cloth to help you.

5. Transfer the strudel onto the centre of a non-stick baking tray lined with baking parchment and shape into a crescent. 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.

6. Dust with icing sugar and serve warm.

Per serving: 196 calories, 3.6g fat, 0.4g saturates, 18.6g sugar, 0.4g salt, ½ serving of whole grain