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Low Fat Pear-Cranberry Strudel

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Low Fat Pear-Cranberry Strudel

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By Fiona Haynes - Low Fat Cooking Expert
WW Points
Serves 4.
Total Time: 40 minutes

This pear-cranberry strudel makes a great holiday or weeknight dessert. The beauty of phyllo, or filo, dough is that it's low fat, has no saturated or trans fat, and no cholesterol, making it a terrfic alternative to regular pastry. It's light, crisp and flaky, and so long as you use butter-flavored cooking spray between layers rather than real melted butter, it's a perfect low fat choice for pies, tarts and, of course, strudels.

Ingredients:
2 ripe pears, peeled, cored and chopped
2 tsp lemon juice
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
6 sheets 9-inch by 14-inch phyllo dough, thawed
Butter-flavored cooking spray

Preparation:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a cookie sheet with nonstick cooking spray or lay a silicone baking mat inside.

Place chopped pears in a medium bowl with lemon juice, cranberries, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir well.

Place one phyllo sheet on cookie tray and spray with butter-flavored cooking spray. Repeat with next four sheets. Lay final sheet on top. Spoon filling along length of dough sheets, leaving a border of at least 1 inch from the edges.

Tuck in the short ends and roll the strudel. Bake seam side down for 25 minutes or until golden.

Per Serving (1/4 of recipe): Calories 168, (Calories from Fat 12), Total Fat 1.4g (sat 0.3g), Cholesterol 0mg, Sodium 83mg, Carbohydrate 37.6g, Fiber 3.3g, Protein 1.5g ++++ WWP: 3