This easy Apple Turnover recipe is filled with apples, cinnamon, and golden raisins and made with a phyllo dough crust. It’s the perfect light fall dessert or breakfast!

Apple Turnovers

You will love this low-calorie dessert if you’re going apple picking and need some apple recipes. Using phyllo dough sheets makes the best light crust for apple turnovers with minimal effort, and you can easily double or triple the recipe to serve a crowd. For more apple recipes, try my apple bread, homemade applesauce, and this delicious apple butter.

Apple Turnovers Ingredients

• Apples: Peel, core, and chop one pound of Gala apples.
• Raisins: I used golden raisins, which are a little sweeter and moister than regular raisins.
• Cinnamon for a warm fall flavor
• Salt: I like Diamond Crystal kosher salt. If you use table salt, use 1/8 of a teaspoon.
• Sweetener: Use two tablespoons of brown sugar, or if you want to reduce the added sugar, try brown monk fruit.
• Cornstarch thickens the apple mixture to prevent the turnovers from getting soggy.
• Phyllo Dough: Thaw eight sheets of phyllo dough.
• Olive Oil Spray moistens the phyllo dough and helps the turnovers turn golden when baked.
• Powdered Sugar to sprinkle on the pastries before serving

How to Make Apple Turnovers

1. Apple Turnover Filling: Put the apples, raisins, sugar, cinnamon, and salt in a nonstick skillet over medium heat. Cover and cook for about 15 minutes until the apples are just beginning to soften.
2. Cornstarch: Stir the cornstarch into the apples.
3. Cut Phyllo Dough: Take the phyllo out of the package and cover it with a damp kitchen towel. Put one sheet of dough on your cutting board and spray lightly with oil. Top with another sheet and spray again. Cut the phyllo in half, long ways, so you have two stacks of long, narrow strips.
4. Fill and Fold the Turnovers: Put three tablespoons of apple filling at one end of each stack. Fold one corner up and over the filling to enclose it in a triangle, and continue folding the triangle over itself until you reach the other end. Spray the top lightly with oil, and transfer the turnover seam- side down to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Repeat with the other phyllo stack, and then repeat with the remaining dough and filling.
5. Bake at 375°F for 30 to 32 minutes until the phyllo is golden and crispy.
6. Serve: Let the turnovers cool on the baking sheet for at least 10 minutes. Then, dust with powdered sugar before eating.

Variations

• Apples: Swap Galas with Honeycrisp apples.
• Raisins: Substitute regular brown raisins with golden ones.
• Reduced Sugar: If you are watching added sugar, omit the powdered sugar.
• Double or triple the apple turnover recipe if you’re serving these at a party.

FAQs

Storage

Store apple turnovers at room temperature for one day or in the refrigerator for 5 days. Let them cool completely before placing them in an airtight container to avoid getting soggy.

Freezer

You can also freeze apple turnovers for up to three months. To reheat, thaw them in the fridge and warm them in the microwave or toaster oven. If you don’t have time to thaw the pastries, heat them up from frozen until heated through.

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