Low-Fat Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie

Submitted by Chef mariajane

"This is such a fantastic tasting beginning of the summer pie - so tasty -"

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 1 pie crust (9-inch)
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1⁄2 teaspoon grated orange rind
• 1⁄3 cup unsweetened orange juice
• 2 1⁄2 cups fresh rhubarb
• 1 1⁄2 cups strawberries, halved

• PIE TOPPING

• 3 tablespoons flour
• 3 tablespoons brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons quick-cooking oats, uncooked
• 2 tablespoons margarine

directions

1. Combine sugar and cornstarch in saucepan; stir in orange rind and juice. Bring to a boil, cook, stirring constantly, for 1 minute. Remove from heat. Add rhubarb and strawberries; stir gently. Spoon into pastry shell.
2. TOPPING: Combine flour, brown sugar and quick cooking oats in a bowl and then cut in 2 tablespoons margarine with a pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse meal. Sprinkle over rhubarb mixture.
3. Bake at 400F for 30 minutes.
4. Cool completely on wire rack.