LIGHTER APPLE TARTS
Ingredients
- 125g/4½oz fat-free Greek-style yoghurt
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
- 2 tsp chia seeds
- 200g/7oz ready-rolled light puff pastry
- 2 tbsp apricot jam
- 2 large sharp
- green eating apples (300g/10½oz in total)
- quartered
- cored
- thinly sliced
- 1 tbsp semi-skimmed milk
- 2 tsp granulated sweetener
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground mace (or nutmeg)
Directions
- To make the yoghurt
- mix together all the ingredients in a small bowl. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours
- preferably overnight.
- Preheat the oven to 220C/200C Fan/Gas 7 and line a baking tray with baking paper.
- Cut the puff pastry into quarters (they should be about 10x13cm/4x5in) and place on the lined baking tray.
- Divide the jam between the pastry and spread with the back of a spoon
- leaving a 1cm/½in margin all the way around each piece. Lay the apple slices
- overlapping
- on top of the jam. Brush the exposed edges of the pastry with the milk.
- Mix together the sweetener
- cinnamon and mace and sprinkle liberally over each tart.
- Bake for 15–20 minutes
- or until the pastry is golden-brown and crispy.
- Serve with a generous spoonful of the yoghurt on the side.

