¼ tsp ginger, ground
½ tsp cinnamon, ground
½ cup sugar
⅔ cup butter, unsalted, 5 ¼ oz
⅓ cup water
1 tbsp brown sugar
1 lb Fuji apples , peeled and cut into ½ cubes, with lemon juice
1 tbsp molasses, mild flavored
2 tsp breadcrumbs
confectioner’s sugar, optional
1 scoop vanilla ice cream, optional
phyllo pastry sheets
In a bowl, mix together the ginger, cinnamon, and sugar. Set aside.
Melt the butter in a pan over medium-high heat. Add in water, brown sugar, and the cinnamon-sugar mixture, then mix well.
Add in the Fuji apples with lemon juice along with the molasses. Stir until dissolved.
Place the apple mixture into an ice cube tray and make sure that they are evenly placed. Freeze for 4 hours.
Trim the phyllo pastry sheets into 13 x 4-inch stacks.
Brush the sheet with melted butter and sprinkle at least 2 teaspoons of breadcrumbs.
Add the frozen apple cube.
Fold phyllo sheets flag style creating a triangle and enclosing apple cubes. Brush apple turnovers with melted butter.
Bake the strudel turnovers at 400 degrees F for 10 minutes.
Plate your apple strudel turnovers, garnish them with confectioners’ sugar, and serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
The pastry chefs at Spago make fresh strudel dough, but all you need is packaged phyllo here. As an alternative for breadcrumbs, you can finely grind a crustless white sandwich bread in a processor, then toast the crumbs in a 350 degrees F oven for about 10 minutes until dry. You’ll need one 14-cube ice-cube tray for the filling. If you don’t have molasses on hand, it can be substituted with either honey or maple syrup. Personally, we prefer maple syrup and the depth of flavor that it brings as compared to honey as a substitute for molasses. Ground ginger can be easily substituted with fresh ginger. However, dried spices are much stronger than their fresh counterparts. So be sure to use more. In this case, 1/4 teaspoon of ground ginger should be replaced with 1 tablespoon of fresh ginger.
Sugar: 22g
:
Calcium: 16mg
Calories: 229kcal
Carbohydrates: 24g
Fat: 15g
Fiber: 1g
Iron: 1mg
Potassium: 105mg
Protein: 1g
Saturated Fat: 3g
Sodium: 185mg
Vitamin A: 707IU
Vitamin C: 3mg
