Turnover (food)

Turnover
A picture of an apple-filled turnover, bought from a diner
An apple-filled turnover
TypePastry

A turnover is a type of pastry made by placing a filling on a piece of dough, folding the dough over, sealing it, and then baking or frying it. Turnovers can be sweet or savoury and are often made as a sort of portable meal or dessert. They are often eaten for breakfast.

It is common for sweet turnovers to have a fruit filling and be made with a puff pastry or shortcrust pastry dough and covered with icing; savoury turnovers generally contain meat and/or vegetables and can be made with any sort of dough, though a kneaded yeast dough seems to be the most common in Western cuisines. They are usually baked, but may be fried.

Savoury turnovers are often sold as convenience foods in supermarkets. Savoury turnovers with meat or poultry and identified as a turnover in the United States (for example, "Beef Turnover" or "Cheesy Chicken Turnover") have to meet a standard of identity or composition and should contain a certain amount of meat or poultry.[1]

  1. ^ Refer to the United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety Inspection Service Food Standards and Labeling Policy Book Archived 2011-02-05 at the Wayback Machine entries for "Turnover" and "Poultry Turnover."