Rhubarb strudel.  

With rhubarb being so plentiful this time of year, I'm always on the lookout for different ways to use rhubarb which is how I stumbled across this recipe for rhubarb strudel.

I liked the idea that Ruth who originally wrote this recipe experiments in the kitchen and shared her ideas. I also liked the idea of adding vanilla to add a bit of interest.

I also used brought puff pastry as if you've ever tried to make puff pastry it's a long task.

Ingredients

500g rhubarb picked fresh from my own plants washed and sliced into 2cm slices.

3 tablespoons sugar.

1 vanilla pod.

1 teaspoon ground nutmeg. I grate my nutmeg fresh.

500g store brought puff pastry.

Method.

1. I scraped the vanilla out of the pod and added the scrapings into a pan with the rhubarb, sugar and nutmeg.

2. I mixed well and placed the pan over a hob for a couple of minutes.

3. I rolled out the puff pastry to about the thickness of a pound coin. Keeping the pastry in a rectangular shape. I then placed the pastry in a baking tray.

4. I spread the rhubarb mix along half of the pastry lengthwise. I then folded over the rest of the pastry and sealed.

5. I baked in the oven for 30 minutes on gas mark 6. Until golden brown then sliced and served.
   Well I thoroughly enjoyed this dish. The vanilla nutmeg and rhubarb all work really well together and served with some nice ice cream I was in heaven.

Best of all I found another use for rhubarb other than crumble.

So give it a try to let me know what you all think.