Ingredients
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- 3 cups fresh blackberries
- 3 T tapioca flour (can sub cornstarch)
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 T lemon juice
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 T butter
- 1 package (2 sheets) frozen puff pastry dough
- Flour for rolling out dough
- 1 egg, beaten with 2 tsp water
Instructions
Make the Blackberry Filling
- Place the blackberries, salt, sugar, lemon juice, and tapioca flour in a heavy-bottomed saucepan on stove over medium-high heat.
- Stir to mix ingredients, then mash berries with a wooden spoon or potato masher to help release berry juice. Cook, stirring frequently, until mixture just comes to a boil.
- Remove pan from stove. Stir in butter until it melts.
- Cool blackberry filling completely in refrigerator before making turnovers. Filling will thicken considerably as it cools.
Make the Turnovers
- Thaw puff pastry (see post for thawing tips).
- After pastry is thawed, preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line rimmed baking pan (one or two, depending on size) with baking parchment.
- Roll a sheet of pastry out on floured surface into a 12-inch square. Cut pastry into four 6-inch squares. Whisk egg and water together, to make an egg wash.
- Place approximately 3 T of blackberry filling onto the center of each square. Use fingers to spread a half-inch line of egg wash around edges of one pastry square.
- Fold pastry over filling and into a triangle, matching edges. Press fork tines firmly along the pastry edges, paying special attention to the corners. (See post for tips). Repeat steps 4 and 5 with remaining squares. The roll out remaining pastry sheet to make four more turnovers.
- Place turnovers on prepared baking pan. Brush top of each turnover with egg wash. Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes, until turnovers have puffed nicely and turned golden brown.
- Remove pan(s) from oven. Cool turnovers completely before enjoying.