Phyllo Dough Berry Burritos

I was craving berry pie, but didn’t want the fat. Here’s how I made a berry burrito.

In the freezer section of the grocery store, near frozen pies, you may find this Greek pastry dough.

It has only 1 gram of fat per serving & is flaky without lots of fat. It must be thawed, comes in stacks of very thin delicate sheets of dough that dry out easily, so you must work quickly. After you thaw a portion (not the entire box), remove what you need and seal the remaining thawed dough in a big baggie & refrigerate it.

I started with the filling, by adding some coconut sugar to ripe berries in a bowl, then smashed them with a potato masher.

Then I very carefully separated a few sheets of Phyllo dough (I don’t recall how many, maybe five). I laid them stacked on top of one another, spooned a line of berries, then carefully rolled them like a flattened thick cigar. I did nothing to the ends, just left them open.

I sprinkled a little bit of coconut sugar on top, then baked them on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper at 375 degrees for about 20 minutes, until golden brown. They are very delicate & flaky, fall apart easily.

They were good, but I cannot eat a whole bunch at once, so I saved leftovers for the next day. I heated up the leftovers in the oven to make them crunchier, instead of soggy. On day two they were even better than day one!

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MY JUST EGG COPY-CAT RECIPE: Mung Bean Homemade Vegan Egg

Sept 16, 2021

LEFT-JustEgg RIGHT-homemade
Taste Test… homemade wins!

Ingredients

1 cup yellow lentils/mung beans, soaked overnight (actually 1 hour soak & rinse in HOT water works well)

1 cup almond milk

¼ tsp black salt (Kala Namak)

½ tsp turmeric

½ tsp garlic powder

½ tsp onion powder

1 ¼ tsp baking powder

3 tbsp nutritional yeast

Instructions

* Soak mung beans in water, and rinse them next morning.

* Blenderize everything together (I used hand-held blender stick) until it is smooth, thin & easy to pour.

* Use as you would use egg – non-stick fried, scrambled, baked, etc.

* Store in fridge (covered) up to 7 days.

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UPDATE: Today (1/21/24) I found a copy-cat recipe on youtube. Compare his to mine:

Ingredients: 

1 cup split yellow mung beans 

1 1/3 cups of water 

1 tsp dehydrated onion flakes *or 1/2 – 3/4 tsp onion powder 

1/2 tsp of salt 

1/2 tsp of turmeric 

Add after cooking (sprinkle on top of your food): 1/4 tsp kala Namak (Black Salt) 

1/4 tsp black pepper 

Method: 

1. Rinse the mung beans well and then soak for at least 4 hours or overnight. 

2. Discard the water and add the mung beans to a blender. 

3. Add 1 1/3 cups of water, onion flakes, salt, and turmeric and blend until smooth. 

4. Now it is ready to use however you would like! Scrambled eggs, fried egg, or omelette. 

5. Sprinkle Kala Namak (Black Salt) on top of what you make for an eggy flavour, since the cooking process will cook out most of the eggy flavour. Add black pepper as well. Enjoy! 

And here’s his video: