Sugar Free Apple Turnovers 

Easy to make delicious to have sugar free recipe for those lazy afternoons.

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:

Filling:

• 2 medium Apples
• 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
• Honey or other sweetener of choice in case natural is not good enough
• 5 tablespoon Water
• 1 tablespoon Cornstarch
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
• 5 tablespoon Water

Dough:

• 2 cup / 300g Flour
• 1 Egg
• ⅔ cup / 150g Butter
• 1 teaspoon Baking powder
• 2-6 tablespoon Water (depends on the consistency of the dough)
• 1 cup / 200ml Olive oil (Or oil of choice for frying)

How to make:

Filling:

1. Place the peeled and grated apples into a mixing bowl.
2. Sprinkle the teaspoon of ground cinnamon into the mixing bowl too.
3. The time has 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.
4. Pour about 5 spoonfuls of water into the mixing bowl.
5. Mix the filling well and pour it into a saucepan to cook.
6. Cook apple in medium heat, stir occasionally.
7. In a mug measure the spoonful of cornstarch and a teaspoon of vanilla extract.
8. Mix it with 5 spoonfuls of water until we get a smooth, yellowish liquid.
9. Pour the vanilla liquid into the cooked apple mixture and stir vigorously.
10. Take it off the heat when it boils.
11. Set aside the saucepan with the filling whilst we’re making the dough.

Apple turnover dough:

1. Measure flour and pour it into a mixing bowl.
2. Measure butter, cut it into pieces and put the pieces into a small bowl.
3. Put the bowl over a saucepan of hot water to make butter soft. It is easier to work with it. (Alternatively put the bowl with the butter into the microwave oven for 10 seconds or so in medium heat.)
4. Crack the egg and put it into the mixing bowl with the flour.
5. Put melted butter and baking powder into the bowl too.
6. Optionally, put a spoonful of honey into the mixture.
7. Knead it well together with by hand until we get a ball like this:
8. Divide it into nine pieces of the same size.
9. Make 9 little balls out of them.
10. Sprinkle some flour on the board and put one ball in the middle. Flatten it with a rolling pin into more or less a rectangle shape.

Assembly:

1. Place a spoonful of filling in the middle.
2. Fold it in half and push the dough together by hand or with a fork. Make sure there aren’t any gaps where the filling could escape.

1. Repeat until it’s done.
2. Pour oil into a frying pan and heat it in medium heat.
3. When it starts sizzling, we can put the first two apple turnovers into the oil to fry.
4. In about 20 seconds (maybe more, depending on the hob) turn it round to fry the other side too. They are supposed to look like something similar to this:
5. Take them out when both sides look golden brown.

Enjoy!

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Sugar Free Apple Turnovers

Prep Time

20 mins

Cook Time

10 mins

Total Time

31 mins

 

Easy to make delicious to have turnovers for those lazy afternoons.

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: Sugar free recipe

Servings: 9

Author: Edi Baker - SunCakeMom

Ingredients

Filling:

• 2 medium Apples
• 1 tsp Cinnamon
• Honey or other sweetener of choice
• 5 tbsp Water
• 1 tbsp Cornstarch
• 1 tsp Vanilla extract
• 5 tbsp Water

Dough:

• 2 cup / 300g Flour
• 1 Egg
• ⅔ cup / 150g Butter
• 1 tsp Baking powder
• 2-6 tbsp Water depends on the consistency of the dough
• 1 cup / 200ml Olive oil Or oil of choice for frying

Instructions

Filling:

1. Place the peeled and grated apples into a mixing bowl.
2. Sprinkle the teaspoon of ground cinnamon into the mixing bowl too.
3. The time has 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.
4. Pour about 5 spoonfuls of water into the mixing bowl.
5. Mix the filling well and pour it into a saucepan to cook.
6. Cook apple in medium heat, stir occasionally.
7. In a mug measure the spoonful of cornstarch and a teaspoon of vanilla extract.
   
8. Mix it with 5 spoonfuls of water until we get a smooth, yellowish liquid.
9. Pour the vanilla liquid into the cooked apple mixture and stir vigorously.
10. Take it off the heat when it boils.

11. Set aside the saucepan with the filling whilst we're making the dough.

Apple turnover dough:

1. Measure flour and pour it into a mixing bowl.

2. Measure butter, cut it into pieces and put the pieces into a small bowl.

3. Put the bowl over a saucepan of hot water to make butter soft. It is easier to work with it. (Alternatively put the bowl with the butter into the microwave oven for 10 seconds or so in medium heat.)
4. Crack the egg and put it into the mixing bowl with the flour.
5. Put melted butter and baking powder into the bowl too.
6. Optionally, put a spoonful of honey into the mixture.
7. Knead it well together with by hand until we get a ball like this:
8. Divide it into nine pieces of the same size.
9. Make 9 little balls out of them.
10. Sprinkle some flour on the board and put one ball in the middle. Flatten it with a rolling pin into more or less a rectangle shape.

11. Place a spoonful of filling in the middle.

12. Fold it in half and push the dough together by hand or with a fork. Make sure there aren't any gaps where the filling could escape.

13. Repeat it 9 times.

14. Pour oil into a frying pan and heat it in medium heat.

15. When it starts sizzling, we can put the first two apple turnovers into the oil to fry.

16. In about 20 seconds (maybe more, depending on the hob) turn it round to fry the other side too.
    

17. Take them out when both sides look golden brown.

18. It's ready to be served. Enjoy!

Recipe Notes

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