Saturday 15 August 2009
At last - the CRONish pasty!
That traditional English dish the Cornish pasty is a nutritional mightmare. The filling isn't too bad, mainly vegetables with a little lean meat, but the surrounding pastry can add 450 to 750 calories per pasty depending on thickness, in the form of white flour, butter and lard. If you were an impoverished tin miner toiling 12 hours a day underground this may well have been the best you could get, but not now! I experimented using bread dough to replace the pastry - fiddly and not ideal. Then I hit on the solution - low carb tortillas. I used Mama Lupe's as that is the only brand I can get in the UK - by post from the low carb megastore. 60 calories each. Make your filling - my favourite so far is mashed sweet potato with chopped steamed leeks and grated Leskol (fat-free cheddar is something we can only dream of over here, and unlike soft cheeses you can't really make it at home). Put the filling on the tortilla - leave enough space so you can press the edges together. Now brush the edges with liquid eggwhite and press together. Pierce the pasty with a fork to let the steam out, put on a plate and microwave till hot.
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I think I'd leave out the folding, spray a non-stick pan with a tiny bit of olive oil or non-cal stuff, and have a wonderful CRON quesadilla. :-) But cool, great idea... and great post title!
Would Quark be too runny as a non-fat cheese sub, do you think?
(If you fancy the quesadilla idea, I'd try spreading sweet potato, then chard, quark, chard, sweet potato, maybe some chilli in one of the layers.... must find that mail order site, hungry now!)
I think quark may go runny if heated - i have been experimenting with it as a butter-substitute making sponge cake at 25 cals a slice. [used eggwhites instead of whole eggs and a combination of ww flour and oatbran instead of white flour. also did a variation with grated pumpkin] But i do love quesadillas, i did one with grated leskol and a smear of tapenade and some fresh herbs. mmmm
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