Pear Turnover GF DF Low

6 turnovers

Pastry: readymade or make a pastry according to a recipe

  • This recipe uses 2 sheets of prepared gluten and dairy free Puff Pastry from CHOICES bread shop (no soy).

Filling Ingredients

  • 3 soft, ripe pears
  • 2 ½ cups water
  • 1 vanilla bean pod
  • 2 tsp Maize cornflour
  • Extra ¼ cup water

Meringue Ingredients

  • 2 egg whites
  • ½ cup castor sugar
  • Beat egg whites until stiff. Gradually beat in the sugar for about 6-10 minutes.
  • Pipe onto the pear turnovers if desired

Method

  • Preheat oven to 2000C.
  • Have pastry at room temperature
  • Line an oven tray with baking paper
  • Peel pears
  • Dice into roughly 1 cm squares
  • Add pears and whole vanilla bean pod to a saucepan
  • Add 2 ½ cups of water and bring to the boil
  • Boil the pears until the liquid reduces to almost none (about 15 minutes)
  • Stir periodically
  • Take the vanilla pod from the pears
  • Combine the cornflour with the ¼ cup water and stir this through the pears to thicken
  • Remove the mixture from the stove and cool slightly

Assembling the turnovers

  • Sprinkle extra plain GF flour over a clean bench & place 1 sheet of Choices Puff pastry on the floured surface
  • Cut out 2 x 15cm diameter circles of pastry
  • Take the left over pastry from this sheet and knead it together. Roll it out to the same thickness as the remaining sheet and cut 1 more 15cm diameter circle.
  • Repeat with remaining pastry sheet to have 6 pastries
  • Place each pastry on the baking sheet in 2 lines of 3
  • Divide the pear evenly among the pastries but spread the pear only on one half of the circle leaving a small edge of exposed pastry to join with the other side
  • With a pastry brush or finger, wet the exposed pastry edge with a little water
  • Fold the pearless half of the pastry over the pear and press the edges of the pastry together
  • Gently press a fork around the edge or crimp with fingers to ensure it is sealed
  • Cook for 10 minutes at 2000C in a normal oven, then fan force the oven for a further 15 minutes of cooking
  • Eat as is…. or pipe some meringue mixture on the edge for extra sweetness
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