Fig and Cheese Phyllo Triangles
A little while ago, one of my readers, Lisa from Lisa B in da City, left the following comment on my Dark Chocolate Souffle post...."Are you up for a challenge? I'm looking for a low carb, low sugar, lowfat dessert. With no berries."
Well Lisa, I have never been able to turn down a challenge.... and YES, that has gotten me into some pretty hot water in the past! (especially if I've been drinking, but luckily for all my cohorts in crime, this isn't a "bare your soul" sort of blog!)
This recipe for Fig and Cheese Phyllo Triangles, meets Lisa's criteria. There are approximately 100 calories, 2g fat, and 20g carbs per turnover (we each ate 2 for dessert).
These were delicious and quite sweet. When I make them again, I will try cutting down the sugar by half. I would still sprinkle the sugar between the layers of the phyllo, but I would leave it out of the filling completely because the figs and fruit juice concentrate should be sweet enough on their own.
Anybody else have a request? Bring it on!
Fig and Cheese Phyllo Triangles
1/3 cup dried figs, finely chopped
3 tbsp frozen fruit juice concentrate
1/3 tsp cinnamon
2 oz low fat cream cheese
1/4 cup sugar
2 tbsp egg substitute
6 sheets phyllo pastry
cooking spray
1/4 cup graham cracker crumbs
powdered sugar
1. Combine chopped up figs with frozen juice and cinnamon. Bring to a boil and simmer for about 10 minutes.
2. In a medium bowl beat together the cream cheese, egg substitute and 2 tbsp of sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in the figs.
3. On a large surface layout one sheet of phyllo pastry. Spray it with cooking spray and sprinkle with 1 tsp of sugar and 2 tsp of graham crumbs. Repeat with two more sheets of pastry. Cut the large rectangle horizontally into six strips. Place a mounded tablespoon of filling at the bottom of each strip and fold them up into triangles.
4. Repeat with the remaining three sheets of phyllo pastry.
5. Spray outside of triangles lightly with cooking spray and bake at 375°F for 15-20 minutes until golden brown.
6. Sprinkle with icing sugar.
11 comments:
Nice to know that you finally do a low fat recipes =D
these look delicious janet...who wudda thunk they were low cal?? Nice job :)
you amaze me!
love it!
p.s. even though ive been nominated, i voted for your blog too! culinate!
I LOVE it!
It looks and sounds absolutely divine. Thanks for doing that!
For your next challenge, will you come prepare it for me as well? ;-)
I think you did a wonderful job, Janet!! This looks so delicious and yet not heavy at all!
I'll think of something for you. ;)
Janet, those triangles look delicious! I will try this and take your recommendations about reducing the sugar. I made phyllo triangles recently using bananas and nutella as the filling. It is relatively lower in fat, well, if you compare it with a typical choc cake ;-)
Sorry my ignorance, but I just making some things sure before I get into action with this beautiful recipe; is the cooking spray oil? Which kind of juice concentrate is the frozen thing? Can I substitute it with a non-frozen one? And may I use a real egg white instead of the egg substitute? Well I suppose the last one's obvious :-D
But I'd be very happy if you'd lend me a hand in this! Eager to try. Already bought phyllo, like to make things with it. Greetings from Helsinki, Finland! Unfortunately my blog's in Finnish :-)
Hi Ylimuuli,
The cooking spray is indeed oil, I use a brand called "PAM" but if you don't have that, you could just brush a small amount of oil onto the phyllo with a pastry brush.
For the frozen juice concentrate I used a mixed fruit flavour (grape, apple and pineapple), but I think any flavour would be nice - apple would very good. If you use un-concentrated juice, I don't think it would make a huge difference (except maybe to the sweetness, but these were sweet anyway).
You can use a whole egg, but the recipe only calls for 2 tbsp of egg, so a whole egg might be a bit too much (use a small one).
I hope these work out for you. I loved them!
I'm not too good with Finnish - but I'm going to go look at your blog anyway. Cheers!
Thank you so much for further instructions! These are gonna be on the menu tonight :-P D'you think one might try it with dates or mango instead of figs? I don't have anything againts figs but those I'd have in the cupboard already... Maybe the can mango is a bit wobbly? Maybe I'll do some experimenting with different fruits, I luuv experimenting :-D
And welcome to my humble blog, I also have to take a closer look into your since it has pearls like this.
Oh and if you find something that looks tempting in my blog I'll be more than happy to translate. Cultural exchange! ;-)
Hi Ylimuuli... I think you could use just about any fruit in this dessert. Go ahead and experiment, and let me know how it turns out.
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