1-1/2 Ingredient Fiber Crust
"This has the TASTE and the TEXTURE of a graham cracker crust, but without the fat and calories and with necessary fiber. It's absolutely delish! Feel free to use more cereal if you prefer thicker crusts. The recipe is more than EASILY adaptable! Use for cheesecakes, pies, quiches, whatever requires a crumb crust!"
- Ready In:
- 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 2
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 1 cup all-bran cereal (All-Bran with Extra Fiber or All-Bran or Fiber One)
- water
directions
- Crush cereal to a powder in a ziploc.
- Add any sweetener or spice (s) to taste here and shake together.
- Dump evenly into a 9" springform or pie plate.
- Fill a pouring cup with some water and moisten fingers.
- Drizzle A LITTLE water at a time just to moisten the crumbs.
- Spread and press crust evenly.
- Use as stated in recipe either baking before or simply pouring filling in, then baking or refrigerating Enjoy!
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Reviews
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It was absolutely wonderful! I used this crust, somewhat skeptically, for a very rich cheesecake. It made for a wonderful contrast from the cheesecake, and made it not so sweet! I absolutely love this crust and will definitely be using it more often! Thanks so much for the recipe! -
This is such a great idea! A healthy, lowfat, delicious pie crust from ingredients I already had on hand?!? It's too good to be true! The only complaint I had was that I could not get the All-Bran to a powder consistency in a plastic bag; I ended up transferring it to a food processor to get the desired consistency. Then, instead of water I used Torani Sugar Free White Chocolate syrup, which gave the All-Bran a really good flavor. Thanks for the idea! -
I’ve used this recipe many times and now do the following tweaks: I add 2-3 digestive cookies to the food processor while crushing the Allbran, a couple of Tbsp melted butter along with the water. I use this for pumpkin pie regularly (like every month or 2) for my kid who doesn’t love vegetables or fibre cereal but will eat a giant slice of this pie (and has since he was 2). So my goal is to make it as yummy as possible while keeping it pretty healthy. And the adults actually like this crust better than frozen pastry so I keep making this one! Also it’s really fast and I usually have all the ingredients on hand.
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This is a healthy crust but it does NOT taste like graham cracker crust. I put the bran flakes into the blender and got great crumbs. I added some splenda to the crumbs. This crust was for a cheesecake and I would not use it for a cheesecake again. I will try it again for a savory pie. -
Well, it worked ok as a crust as it held the stuff in and was pretty tasty. (I pre-baked it and then sliced a bannana on top, added some fat free/sugar free chocolate pudding, and then a layer of fat free cool-whip.) But I certainly would not say that it has the taste of a graham cracker crust. As long as you are not expecting it to be the same, it is pretty good.
Tweaks
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This is such a great idea! A healthy, lowfat, delicious pie crust from ingredients I already had on hand?!? It's too good to be true! The only complaint I had was that I could not get the All-Bran to a powder consistency in a plastic bag; I ended up transferring it to a food processor to get the desired consistency. Then, instead of water I used Torani Sugar Free White Chocolate syrup, which gave the All-Bran a really good flavor. Thanks for the idea!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
nomnom
Wilmington, Delaware
I graduated from the University of Delaware's HRIM program in '06.
Been several years since I was last active and experimenting, but I'm coming back into it.
I used to be vegetarian (even had a touch of the veganism), and I still love me my veggies, but I also love me my meat. I will never stop liking tofu no matter what. Don't knock until you try it cooked PROPERLY. Tofu is so easy to mess up.
