Healthy Desserts Recipes - Spiced Rhubarb Tart

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup (150g) low-fat ricotta cheese, sieved

• 1 tablespoon finely grated orange rind

• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 

• 1 egg yolk

• 1 tablespoon caster sugar

• 4 sheets fillo pastry cooking oil spray

rhubarb topping

• 5 cups (550g) chopped fresh rhubarb

• 1/2 small (65g) apple, peeled, chopped

• 1 teaspoon finely grated fresh ginger

• 1/3 cup (75g) caster sugar

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Method:

1. Combine cheese, rind, cinnamon, egg yolk and sugar in medium bowl. Cut pastry sheets in half; layer pastry sheets together, coating every second sheet with cooking oil spray. Cut 24cm round from layered pastry; cut decorative shapes from pastry scraps, if desired.

2. Place pastry round on oven tray which has been coated with cooking oil spray; spread cheese mixture evenly over base, leaving 3cm border.

3. Bake, uncovered, in moderate oven about 20 minutes or until cheese mixture is set. Spread Rhubarb Topping over base; decorate with pastry shapes.

4. Bake, uncovered, in moderate oven about 25 minutes or until firm. Serve dusted with a little sifted icing sugar, if desired.

5. To make Rhubarb Topping: Combine rhubarb, apple, ginger and sugar in large pan, stir over heat, until sugar dissolves. Cook, uncovered, stirring occasionally, about 15 minutes or until mixture is thick.