On my quest to find the ultimate picnic pudding, I stumbled upon a recipe for a sort of apple samosa.
After a teensy bit of tweaking, I give you my deliciously decadent apple pie-letts. They're easy to wrap-up and sling in your picnic hamper, but equally impressive if you fancied whipping them out at a dinner party.
Best of all?
They're only about 200calories each (sans ice-cream).
They taste, look and smell deliciously naughty, but in fact, they're secretly saintly!
You'll need:-
2 cooking apples
2 oz caster sugar
1tsp ground mixed spice
1 pack filo pastry
2 tbsp melted low fat spread (lurpack light)
Preheat your oven to 180°C or 350°F.
Peel, chop & core your apples & then pop them in a saucepan.
Add your sugar, spice and all things nice.
Add 2 table spoons of water, cover and leave to cook for a few mins.
Stir now and then, until it looks like slightly chunky baby food.
Leave to cool a little.
While you wait, tackle your ever so delicate fill pastry.
Take just 4 sheets of the pastry and lay it flat on a board. Cut into thirds and brush with your melted butter.
Add a little more than a tablespoon of your apple mixture and fold over to make a triangle. Keep folding it over until you get the end of the sheet.
In a cup mix a little sugar with warm water, this will be your glaze.
Paint over the top of your parcels and pop them in a baking tray.
Leave them in the oven for 30-35mins, or until they look brown and crispy.
When they're done, leave them to cool a little, before serving with good quality ice cream.
Sumptuous.
(You can also add sultanas to your pieletts, but as far as I'm concerned, sultanas are the devil's fruit and I would rather not pick them out of my pudding.)
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Amazing. x hivenn
ReplyDeleteOh my, those look yummy - and the low calorie count is an added bonus! I'm definitely adding these on my list of things to bake :)
ReplyDeleteOoohhhh I'm going to buy ingredients and try to make the same, looks very gooood!
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Estelle
http://serendipity2307.blogspot.com
I LOVE your recipes! I have to go searching through your blog though can you do a recipe section? I love them so much!
ReplyDeleteI read this blog last week and tried making these from memory this past weekend. Just had to share a few things but first let me just say - YUMMMMERRRRSSSS!!!!
ReplyDelete1 - Filo dough grows on you. Hard to work with but once you figure it out it is not that bad... still filo dough and me are not best friends.
2 - I was stupid and forgot to peel the apples. I am looking at your images and it looks like you didn't either but your apple peels might be thinner cause I don't see them in the cooked images. In our case it would have been much better if we did cause the peels had a wierd texture.
3 - Eat when baked. We made 7, ate 3 and put the remaining 4 in the fridge which turned them from flaky goodness to mushy and chewy.
Question? How do we inject caramel into that apple mix? I think that would be just what we need to make this even more sinful.
And to defend the Filo dough - once we tasted its flaky goodness, all we kept asking was what else can we stuff in this thing? So it's a mean SOB but oh so yummy!
Thanks!
Sorry - One more message to you... You should repost this. Feels so bad it is lost in the past posts. Deserves a repost if you ask me :)~
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