Easy Apple Turnovers from scratch
Easy Recipe for making flakey,crisp,apple turnovers filled with cinnamon flavored apple filling from scratch.The whole process of making the pastry dough,assembling the turnovers and baking will be done in less than two hours.
Equipment
- Baking tray https://amzn.to/34RMYeF
Ingredients
For the pastry Dough
- 300 g All-purpose flour 2 and 1/4 cups +1 tbsp
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 170 g Unsalted butter 3/4 cup or 1 and 1/2 sticks chilled, cut into small pieces
- 25 g Sugar 2 tbsp
- 120-135 ml Water 8-9 tbsp
For the Apple Filling
- 2 Apples (peeled, cored and diced small)
- 50 g Granulated sugar 1/4 cup
- 1/2 tsp Ground cinnamon
- Pinch of salt
- 1 tbsp Corn flour
- 60 ml Water 1/4 cup
- 1 tbsp Lemon juice optional
For topping
- 1 Egg
- 1/2 tbsp Milk
- 12 g Sugar 1 tbsp for sprinkling on top
Instructions
Prepare the pastry dough
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar and salt. Add the cold butter and, toss it into the flour mixture and try to incorporate the butter into the flour.Add cold water, little by little into the flour mixture and, using a fork, gently toss and stir together until large lumps form and all of the flour has been moistened. Using your hands, pat the dough into a ball and wrap with plastic wrap or parchment paper. Refrigerate for 30 minutes or more until the dough is firm
Prepare the apple filling
- In a small pan, add the sugar, cinnamon powder,salt,corn flour and water and bring it to boil .When it get thickened,stop cooking and take it out from the stove.
Assemble the apple turnovers
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- On a lightly floured work surface, roll out one half of the dough to ⅛-inch thickness. Cut the pie dough sheet into circles using a cookie cutter or into long rectangles or squares using a pizza cutter.Spoon about 1 to 2 tablespoons filling onto each dough sheet and fold it in half so the other side comes down over the filling. Seal the hand pie, and make a decorative edge by pressing the edges of the dough together with the tines of a fork.Transfer them to the parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Freeze for 20 minutes or Refrigerate the assembled hand pies for 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F
Bake the apple turnovers
- In a small bowl, whisk together an egg and milk for the egg wash. Remove the chilled hand pies from the refrigerator, and lightly brush with the egg wash. Using a sharp knife, cut a few small slits on the top of each hand pie, then sprinkle generously with coarse sugar.
- Bake @400 F for 10 minutes and then reduce the temperature to 375 F and bake for another 18-20 minutes or Bake until the hand pies are golden brown, the baking time vary according to how thick we rolled the dough.
- Remove the pies from the oven, and let stand to cool slightly before serving.Enjoy!
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Notes
- Use Cold Ingredients and try to keep the dough cold all the time
- Don't Overwork the dough
- Don't add too much water while preparing the pie dough
- Work as fast as you can while working with the dough