Crayfish And Curried Cream Cheese Turnovers Recipes

CREAM CHEESE TURNOVERS

Steps:

• Combine pastry dry ingredients in a food processor. Pulse in butter 10 seconds, then water for 10 seconds. Form into a ball and refrigerate for 1 hour.
• Roll pastry in a 12x12 rectangle. Cut into nine even squares. Cover and set aside while preparing filling.
• For filling, beat together cheese and yolk until combined. Add preserves and mix well. Spoon equal amounts of mixture onto each pastry square.
• Moisten edges of pastry with water. Fold to form a triangle and seal edges with the tines of a fork. Brush with egg white and dust with sugar.
• Cut 2-3 air vents in the top of each turnover. Place on a cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
• For icing, beat sugar, vanilla, and milk until smooth. Place icing in a sandwich baggie, nip off 1/8" of one corner. Squeeze icing over warm turnovers.

CRAYFISH AND CURRIED CREAM CHEESE TURNOVERS

Steps:

• Soften the cream cheese in an electric mixer. Add the crayfish, cilantro, tarragon, scallions, garlic, curry paste, chile paste, salt, and lime juice and mix well to combine. Taste for seasoning and add more chile paste or lime, as desired. Chill for at least 10 minutes or up to 8 hours.
• Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Lay 1 sheet of phyllo in front of you (keep the remaining dough covered with a damp towel), with the long side facing you. Using a pastry brush, lightly butter the phyllo, then sprinkle with bread crumbs. Repeat with 2 more sheets of dough, stacking them on top of the first sheet. When you have stacked 3 sheets, cut them into 3 even pieces. Place a large spoonful (about 2 tablespoons) of crayfish filling in a lower corner of each piece and fold, flag style, into triangle shapes. Brush the top of each turnover with butter and sprinkle with crumbs. Place on the baking sheet and refrigerate at least 30 minutes, or until ready to serve.
• Preheat the oven to 400°F when you are ready to serve. Bake the turnovers for 10-12 minutes, until golden brown and crispy. Serve immediately.

CHEESY CURRY VEGGIE TURNOVERS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment.
• Melt the butter in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. When it begins to foam, add the mushrooms, leeks and 1/4 teaspoon salt, and cook, stirring, until well browned, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the curry powder, and cook for 30 seconds, stirring. Add the cauliflower, tomatoes, 1/2 cup water and 1/2 teaspoon salt, and stir, scraping up the spice paste from the bottom of the pan. Bring to a simmer, cover, reduce the heat to low and cook until the sauce has thickened and the cauliflower is tender, about 4 minutes. Remove the lid and, if necessary, continue to cook until the sauce is a thick, almost paste-like consistency and coats the vegetables, about 1 minute more. Transfer the filling to a medium bowl, and let cool completely. Stir in the peas.
• Unfold the puff pastry onto a lightly floured surface, and roll it out into a 12-inch square.
• Quarter the dough to make 4 equal squares. Put a quarter of the filling in the center of each square. Sprinkle 1/4 cup of the Cheddar on the top of each mound. Brush the edges of each square with the beaten egg, then fold 1 corner on top of the opposite corner, making a triangle. Transfer to the prepared baking sheet. Press along the edges with the back of a fork to create a pattern and seal the turnover. Brush each turnover with egg, and make 3 small slits on the top. Sprinkle each with 2 tablespoons of the remaining Cheddar.
• Bake until the turnovers are golden brown and bubbly, 30 to 35 minutes. Serve hot with mango chutney if using.

CURRIED SHRIMP TURNOVERS

Steps:

• Using a round pastry cutter, cut the pastry into 2-inch rounds, placing each round on a waxed paper lined cookie sheet. Roll the remaining scrap into a ball and roll out, using a rolling pin, into a 1/4-inch thick sheet and continue to cut rounds of puff pastry until you've used it all up. Refrigerate the rounds until the filling is ready.
• Heat a saute pan over medium heat for 1 minute. Add the butter, and when it begins to foam, add the diced onion. Cook the onion until it is translucent, add the carrot and apple and saute for 2 minutes. Add the shrimp and cook for 2 minutes, then sprinkle with curry powder and stir to combine well. Season with salt and pepper, remove from heat, and spoon the mixture onto a flat pan (such as a cookie sheet) and cool for several minutes. Put shrimp in refrigerator and chill throughly.
• Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Lightly brush a round of pastry with some of the egg wash. Place 1 teaspoon of the shrimp filling in the center of the pastry and fold the dough in half to encase the filling and create a dumpling. Continue to fill the pastry rounds in this way until all of the filling and pastry has been used up. Place the finished turnovers on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet. Brush the tops of the turnovers with the remaining egg wash and bake for 12 to 15 minutes just before you are ready to serve them. They may be held, unbaked and refrigerated, for up to 48 hours for later use. Serve hot.

CHEESE AND CHUTNEY TURNOVER

Steps:

• Reserve two tbsp of chutney.
• Mix cream cheese, cheese, scallions and curry power and 1 1/2 T of chutney. Place puff pastry on work surface, and cut each sheet into 12 equal squares.
• Equally divide filling between the 24 squares in the center, top evenly with remaining chutney (not the reserved).
• Put egg in a small bowl and beat.
• Egg wash edges, fold over diagonally, and crimp.
• Bake at 400° for 10 minutes, brush with reserved chutney, and bake for 6 minutes more.

CURRIED TURKEY TURNOVERS

Steps:

• If turkey is frozen, let it thaw overnight in the refrigerator.
• For filling, in a 10-inch skillet cook turkey and onion till turkey is brown.
• Drain off any fat.
• Stir in the green pepper, carrot, raisins, curry powder, salt cumin and pepper, cover and simmer 10 minutes.
• If necessary, remove cover and cook over high heat 3 to 4 minutes or till liquid is evaporated.
• Spoon filling into a bowl and let cool.
• Let frozen pie crusts stand at room temperature while the filling cools.
• To assemble turnovers, unfold/unroll/roll-out pie crusts; sprinkle with flour.
• Place crusts, floured side down, on a baking sheet.
• Spread half of the filling over half of each crust, leaving a 1-inch edge along the outside.
• Moisten edge with water.
• Gently lift and fold other half of pie crust over filling.
• Seal and flute edges.
• Wrap each turnover separately in foil; seal, label, and freeze.
• SERVE IMMEDIATELY: Brush turnovers with beaten egg.
• Cut slits in dough to let steam escape.
• Bake in a 375°F oven about 25 minutes or till golden brown and heated through.
• Serve as above with yogurt, sour cream and/or chutney.
• If frozen plan to cook for 40 to 45.