Apple and sultana tartlets

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Apple and sultana tartlets

A festive lower-calorie alternative

25 minutes

Makes 8

Sarah Drabble

Recipe by: Sarah Drabble | Healthy You Editor

Apple and cinnamon is wonderful flavour combination that just shouts Christmas to me. These festive tartlets make a tasty party snack or dessert, and are lower in calories, fat and sugar than traditional mince pies.

Sarah Drabble

Recipe by: Sarah Drabble | Healthy You Editor

Apple and cinnamon is wonderful flavour combination that just shouts Christmas to me. These festive tartlets make a tasty party snack or dessert, and are lower in calories, fat and sugar than traditional mince pies.

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon reduced-fat spread, melted
  • 80g sultanas
  • 1 medium cooking apple, peeled, cored and finely diced
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 2 teaspoons golden syrup
  • 1 tablespoon hot water
  • 4 sheets fresh or frozen filo pastry
  • Sprinkle of icing sugar

CALORIES: 113

FAT: 1.9g

SALT: 0.1g

SUGAR: 10g

Method

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 160ºC/Fan 140ºC. Lightly grease a muffin tin with a small amount of reduced-fat spread.
  2. Mix the sultanas and apple together in a bowl with the cinnamon, golden syrup and hot water. Leave to one side.
  3. Dab some reduced-fat spread over a sheet of filo pastry. Fold the short ends into the middle so that they are overlapping to form a rectangular shape three pastry layers thick. Cut into two roughly equal 10cm squares.
  4. Place each square into a well of the tin. Repeat with the remaining sheets, giving you eight pastry shells.
  5. Divide the fruit mixture evenly between the pastry shells. Crinkle the edges of the pastry up a little to hold the mixture in place.
  6. Bake in the oven for 7–8 minutes until the pastry has crisped.
  7. Sprinkle with icing sugar and serve warm or cold as preferred.

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