friedPie - Pumpkin Turnover
Source of Recipe
from mimi's cyber kitchen in July of 2002
friedPie - Pumpkin Turnover
filling:
1 small pumpkin
1 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Peel pumpkin.
Cut pumpkin into medium sized cubes and boil in water
until tender. Drain.
Place pumpkin in a large bowl and mash.
Add sugar and cinnamon.
turnover pastry:
4 cups flour
1 Tablespoon granulated white sugar
3/4 coconut milk
1 teaspoon vegetable shortening
1/2 teaspoon baking powder, (optional, adding should
...make the pastry puff a bit)
Mix flour and coconut milk until easy to handle.
Roll dough thinly and cut into 2 inch rounds.
Place one tablespoon of filling onto dough.
Fold over and press ends.
Then pinch ends with fork to seal.
Fry turnovers in hot oil in a deep skillet until
golden brown.