DESSERTS

Phyllo Fruit Pizza & Roll

low carb vegan recipe

Makes 8 servings.

Preheat the oven to 375°F/190°C.

Variation: before baking it, from one of the short edges, roll it up into a log and it will turn out more like a strudel or fruit carpet roll.

Follow the exact same steps as with preparing the phyllo layers as described in the Phyllo Dough Pizzas recipe in the Pizzas section, creating a well-brushed margarine or oil stack of 5–6 phyllo layers waiting to be topped. Or, you can save on calories by using cooking spray instead.

Run fresh or thawed from frozen fruit through a food processor. Pour the fruit slurry onto the top phyllo layer, and spread around with a brush. Bake for 15 minutes. The fruit will get very hot so let cool before eating. Eat it hand held or with a knife and fork, with the help of a pizza cutter of course.

This is best for a cheat meal or weight maintenance, given the sugar in the fruit.

Phyllo Fruit Roll

5–6 layers of phyllo dough
1 ziplock bag of frozen fruit (~2–3 cups worth)

Preheat the oven to 375°F/190°C (sometime during the next step).

Run your chosen frozen fruit through a blender to pulverize it into little frozen fruit pebbles.

Use the Cooking Spray Phyllo Crust method discussed in the Pizza section. Start to make the Fruit Pizza described in this section, by laying out the frozen fruit pebbles evenly across the top layer of phyllo.

Before placing it in the oven, roll it up just like a carpet roll, or the Burek or Pizza Roll described earlier in this book. Then bake for 15 minutes and that’s all she wrote bob’s your uncle finito.

Unlike the phyllo pizzas or pizza roll or burek, the fruit roll — like the fruit pizza — is really too hot to handle when right out of the oven, due to the very hot fruit juice. This needs to cool down to room or fridge temperature before it is manageable to eat.