Apple Turnover

I have a special requested by my beloved yogi friend, ( yes! Olivia Oshima ) who wants an Apple pie for once.. Since I 've been only giving them homemade  brownies, banana cakes, muffins, cookies stuffs like that, bringing  into my yoga centre and share these nibble goodies with them before and after tough asanas. It's always good to pick a liite sweet bites.


So last week, I picked up those reddish apples from my veg & fruit basket ( i have mixure of red ones, thought i know Graham apples would be better but it's hard to get in HK) were giving by visitors from Chinese new year.. Ok, it seems long time ago for CNY, but those apples aren't rotten yet.
I simply cannot finish off those apples and don't want to wasted them and throw away.  I would have to cook them and make some room for my basket. 


Althought, I was supposed to make an apple pie,  Apple Turnover came out instead at last. It was due to time consuming, plus I made this at work in lunch hour and got to take this pie to yoga around 6ish,  I would have to do this quick + baking time and still took me over 2 hrs in total proccess.
Personally, I don't like too much dough as a choice for dessert, this is why I normally don't order apple pie or buy them outside( either waste of money and too much sugar),   I prefer much more on apple crumble.  So the Apple Turnover came out in the end because I think this is rahter a nicer apperance, as you are able to see the fillings and seeing of what sort of ingredients you get inside.


2 hrs later, around 5.20pm, gotta rush and catch up my bus for yoga 6.30pm class, quick quick quick.....  ( i don't wanna miss this yin class )Ummmmm, smells great with cinnamon & rum.  I had to divided them into 9 pieces and packed these all up for my yogis... .. Phhheww!  the quick running and bit of traffic jam on monday, damn! i hate this, thank goodness as I just made into my class on time :)  and the turnovers were giving them after intensive asana classes.


Recipe :

This pie i used wholemeal flour for the base , sorry for not having accurate measurement, because i work pretty much on what i have got in hand  and my food cupboard). For alternative Gluten -free  dough flour,can be splet, buckwheat, rice flour, teff/ besan / chickpeas..etc. For non refined sugar choice, molasees, maple syrup,honey, malt syrups. 

for dough:
Wholemeal flour
water or milk, yogart, sour cream ( mixure of half & half as your choice)
pinch of salt
1egg (optional)  ( as sometime i ran out or vegan free diet )
2 parts baking powder & baking soda

fillings:
4 large apples  ( any kind you like )
saltanas / raisins
cinnamon/ nutmeg/ cloves ( optional) \
3tsp muscovador sugar/ honey  ( i mixed these2 usually )
lemon juice 
some Rum

To make  base :
1.Mixed with all dough ingrediants together and mixed with hands.( this time i didn't use egg but it helps of the raise and won't fall apart easily)


2.Cut apples into small pieces or thin slices, mix all other filling ingredients in other containers /large bowls .


3.Roll out the dough and placed it in a over container, press through with evenly for the base on the ovendish plate, the dough can be wider than the width of the container for the wrapping afterward. Then pour the apple fillings in, spread them evenly and wrap them up with extra dough over. This would not be completely covered up .


4. Set off to the oven for 1hr, bake in 180- 200 degrees. ( it depends on your oven ,as i used a small toaster version. Voilà!


You can serve this with ice cream or vanilla custard cream, warm & cold combination, it's great for fruit craved day .