FRUITY FILO PARCELS
Ingredients
- 1 tinned pear
- drained
- juice reserved
- 4 tsp mixed dried fruit
- 30g/1oz unsalted butter
- large pinch of mixed spice
- 1 tsp caster sugar
- 4 sheets fresh filo pastry
Directions
- Before cooking
- wash your hands and put on an apron. Weigh or measure all the ingredients. Ask a grown-up to heat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6. Measure the dried mixed fruit into a cup then add some pear juice from the tinned fruit – put to one side for five minutes while you chop up the pear.
- Chop up the pear into a bowl with the scissors – ask a grown-up to help you use the scissors. Drain the mixed fruit and add it to the pear.
- Ask a grown-up to help you melt the butter in small saucepan
- then place into a mixing bowl with the mixed spice and the sugar. Stir with the pastry brush. Spread out a sheet of filo with the short side nearest to you and brush the filo with the butter mixture.
- Place a quarter of the fruit mix in the centre at the edge nearest to you and then fold in the long sides to cover the mixture.
- Brush the filo again with some more of your butter mix
- then roll up the length of the pastry to make a parcel.
- Repeat to make four parcels and brush the top of each with the remaining butter mixture. Place onto a baking tray. Ask a grown-up to put them in the preheated oven and bake for 10 minutes. Leave to cool before eating as the filling is very hot! Serve the parcels with plain yoghurt.

