Naturally Sugar Free Apple Turnovers
Looking for naturally sweet bite that brightens up the day? Let’s make some apple turnovers and open the door for even more!
The worst part of quitting sugar is to renounce our favorite sugary snacks and desserts. Especially high sugar stuff like McDonald’s apple pies. Giving up on sugar means giving up our life as we’ve known it. Sugar free life is like being on the other side of life. Fear not though as there is life after sugar too. Namely the sugar free apple turn-over is here as our savior in need.
It’s the one without any refined sugar or preservatives. It’s as natural as it gets. However if deep fried pastry is a notch above our naturalness then head over to the baked Sugar Free Apple Pie. It’s a real treat too!
Ingredients
Apple Cinnamon Filling
- 4 pieces / 500g Apples (peeled, shredded)
- Honey or sweetener of choice to taste (optional)
- 1 teaspoon / 0.5g Cinnamon
- ½ cup / 100ml Water
- 1 tablespoon / 8g Cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon / 5ml Vanilla extract (optional)
- ¼ cup / 60ml Water
Note: If short on apple other fruits or even jam can be used as filling. Also try it with protein filled cottage cheese:
Cottage cheese filling
- 10 oz / 300g Cottage cheese
- 3 tablespoon / 45g Honey or sweetener of choice to taste (optional for sweet turnovers)
- 1 teaspoon / 5gVanilla extract (optional)
Dough
- 2⅓cup / 300g Flour
- 4 tablespoons / 50g Butter
- 3 teaspoons / 12g Baking powder (follow instruction on packaging)
- 1 piece / 60g Egg
- ¼ cup / 60ml Water
Frying
- 2 cups / 500ml Oil
How to make Apple turnover
Filling
- Grate the apples. Peeling is not paramount. Some like to do it, but since vitamins are right under the skin, healthier otherwise.
- The time has already come to use any optional sweetener of choice. Try to keep it low as apples are generally sweet enough and don’t really require extra sweeteners. Sprinkle the ground cinnamon on top and mix it well together.
- While adding about a quarter cup of water pour the filling int a saucepan to cook. Cook apple in medium heat, stir occasionally for about 5 – 10 minutes. Replace the amount of water that evaporates if a more jucy filling is desired otherwise not necessary.
- Meanwhile the apple is cooking mix a spoonful of cornstarch, teaspoon of optional vanilla extract and some water in a bowl. When added to the apple sauce this will thicken it somewhat so if we want a denser filling add more cornstarch. Optionally we can skip this step entirely.
- Pour the liquid into the cooked apple mixture then stir vigorously.
- Take it off the heat when it starts to boil and set aside the saucepan with the filling whilst we’re making the dough. The cooler the filling gets the better as handling buttery pastry with hot filling isn’t one of the easiest task in the kitchen.
Apple turnover dough
- Measure flour, butter, baking powder and pour it into a mixing bowl with and egg. (soften or even melt the butter a bit as it will be hard to knead it otherwise)
- Add the water. Water is crucial ingredient that activates gluten in the flour that holds together the whole pie from falling apart into a shapeless brown mass in the hot oil pan. Knead it well together by hand until the dough comes together and not sticking to the hands or the side of the bowl. Add a bit more of flour if the dough is too sticky.
- Divide it into nine pieces of the same size.
- Make 9 little balls out of them.
Assembly
- Sprinkle some flour on the board and put one ball in the middle.
- Flatten it with a rolling pin then put some filling on one side of the dough.
- Fold it in half. A help of a spatula may be needed to pick up the flattened dough nicely.
- Press the dough together by hand or with a fork. Make sure there aren’t any gaps where the filling could escape. Remove the excess dough if necessary and make new balls from them. Repeat until the dough runs out.
- Pour oil into a frying pan and heat it in medium to high heat. Drop a tiny piece of dough into the oil. If it starts sizzling, we can put the first two apple turnovers into the oil to fry. In about 1 -3 minutes (maybe more, depending on the cooktop turn it round to fry the other side too.
Enjoy!
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Sugar Free Apple Turnovers Recipe
Looking for naturally sweet bite that brightens up the day? Let's make some apple turnovers and open the door for even more!
Servings 9
Calories 207kcal
Ingredients
Filling
- 4 Apples peeled, shredded
- Honey or sweetener of choice optional
- 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
- ½ cup Water
- 1 tablespoon Cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract optional
- ¼ cup Water
Dough
- 2⅓ cups Flour
- 4 tablespoons Butter
- 3 teaspoons Baking powder follow instruction on packaging
- 1 Egg
- ¼ cup Water
- 2 cups Olive oil Or cooking oil of choice for frying or bake it in oven
Instructions
Filling
- Grate the apples. Peeling is not paramount. Some like to do it, but since vitamins are right under the skin, healthier otherwise.
- The time has already come to use any optional sweetener of choice. Try to keep it low as apples are generally sweet enough and don't really require extra sweeteners. Sprinkle the ground cinnamon on top and mix it well together.
- While adding about a quarter cup of water pour the filling int a saucepan to cook. Cook apple in medium heat, stir occasionally for about 5 - 10 minutes. Replace the amount of water that evaporates if a more jucy filling is desired otherwise not necessary.
- Meanwhile the apple is cooking mix a spoonful of cornstarch, teaspoon of optional vanilla extract and some water in a bowl. When added to the apple sauce this will thicken it somewhat so if we want a denser filling add more cornstarch. Optionally we can skip this step entirely.
- Pour the liquid into the cooked apple mixture then stir vigorously.
- Take it off the heat when it starts to boil and set aside the saucepan with the filling whilst we're making the dough. The cooler the filling gets the better as handling buttery pastry with hot filling isn't one of the easiest task in the kitchen.
Apple turnover dough
- Measure flour, butter, baking powder and pour it into a mixing bowl with and egg. (soften or even melt the butter a bit as it will be hard to knead it otherwise)
- Add the water. Water is crucial ingredient that activates gluten in the flour that holds together the whole pie from falling apart into a shapeless brown mass in the hot oil pan. Knead it well together by hand until the dough comes together and not sticking to the hands or the side of the bowl.
- Divide it into nine pieces of the same size.
- Make 9 little balls out of them.
Assembly
- Sprinkle some flour on the board and put one ball in the middle.
- Flatten it with a rolling pin then put some filling on one side of the dough.
- Fold it in half. A help of a spatula may be needed to pick up the flattened dough nicely.
- Press the dough together by hand or with a fork. Make sure there aren't any gaps where the filling could escape. Remove the excess dough if necessary and make new balls from them. Repeat until the dough runs out.
- Pour oil into a frying pan and heat it in medium to high heat. Drop a tiny piece of dough into the oil. If it starts sizzling, we can put the first two apple turnovers into the oil to fry. In about 1 -3 minutes (maybe more, depending on the cooktop turn it round to fry the other side too.
Notes
Enjoy!
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(Nutrition facts doesn't include frying oil.)
Nutrition (per serving)
Calories: 207kcal (10%) | Carbohydrates: 35g (12%) | Protein: 4g (8%) | Fat: 6g (9%) | Saturated Fat: 3g (19%) | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 32mg (11%) | Sodium: 195mg (8%) | Potassium: 110mg (3%) | Fiber: 2g (8%) | Sugar: 6g (7%) | Vitamin A: 215IU (4%) | Vitamin C: 3mg (4%) | Calcium: 94mg (9%) | Iron: 2mg (11%)
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It’s so easy and so fast to prepare that I could do it every day.
Nothing is stopping you from doing that ;D
I’m surprised that it is actually sweet without added sugar!
Fruits are nature’s candy and candies are sweet by nature! 😀
Really tasty sugar free turnovers! Loved them!
Happy you liked it! Thanks for the feedback