These cheesy turnovers are like the ones you get from a bakery, only better!
I have a lifelong love of British baked goods and the savoury section is no exception. When we first got back to the UK, I thought all my bakery dreams had come true. However, unlike my tummy, my bank account is not a bottomless pit and baked treats can be exxy… Cost of living crisis and all that!
Anyhoo, I kept seeing these tasty savoury wraps in the local bakeries and couldn’t wait to have a crack at them myself. Making them at home is so easy and so affordable – they are delicious hot or cold and go great in a lunch box.
While the turnovers will not win any beauty contests, they always pass the taste test!
I make them in my Ninja Foodi because I am a little bit obsessed but you can just as easily bake these in the oven. The results will be equally delicious but you’ll have to bake the turnovers in two batches if you’re using the air fryer.
You can really experiment with the flavour combinations too. As long as you use cheese, anything goes. We’ve tried cheese and chorizo, cheese and bacon, cheese and pesto and cheese and ham (although for the latter it will look very cooked – see lunch box above!)
For a vegetarian option, try cheese and tomato, cheese and Vegemite/Marmite and if you want to be really fancy, add some vegetarian pesto.
It’s one of the great mysteries of my universe why UK and Australian puff pastry sizes are so different but that they are. Aussie pastry sheets are sold frozen, in packs of 5 or 6 and are super affordable. UK pastry is mostly sold chilled and in 1 sheet packs.
Not only that, it’s thick and works out really expensive. WHY?! I was so outraged, I even put in a complaint to Jus-Rol but alas I feel my pleas for packs of pastry have fallen on deaf, doughy ears!
Anyway, where was I?! Oh yes, back to pastry sheets… I can get six turnover squares out of one sheet of UK puff pastry, I reckon you’d get 4 generous wraps out of an Aussie sheet.
These turnovers will keep 2 to 3 days in an airtight container but honestly, they never last that long at our place. Don’t say I didn’t tell you they’re addictive!
What would be your favourite turnover combination? What’s your favourite bakery treat?
Makes 6
Ingredients
1 fresh puff pastry sheet
50g cheddar cheese, shaved/thinly sliced
6 rashers of bacon and/or 2 tomatoes, sliced
1 egg, beaten to glaze
How to – Oven
- Heat the oven to 200C/180C fan-forced. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
- Unravel the pastry and cut into 6 squares – cutting 3 columns along the widest part of the pastry and then cutting each strip into 2 squares.
- Place the squares on the diagonal. If you’re using pesto or vegemite spread it down the centre of the “diamond.”
- Divide the cheese down the centre of each “diamond.” Top with a rasher of bacon and/or slices of tomato.
- Brush the two exposed corners of the pastry with beaten egg and fold over the corners so that they enclose the filling.
- Brush the top of the wraps with the egg wash. Place on baking tray and bake for 15-20 minutes until the pastry is puffed and golden.
- Transfer to a cooling rack for 5 minutes before devouring!
How to – Ninja Foodi
- Unravel the pastry and cut into 6 squares – cutting 3 columns along the widest part of the pastry and then cutting each strip into 2 squares.
- Place the squares on the diagonal. If you’re using pesto or vegemite spread it down the centre of the “diamond.”
- Divide the cheese down the centre of each “diamond.” Top with a rasher of bacon and/or slices of tomato.
- Brush the two exposed corners of the pastry with beaten egg and fold over the corners so that they enclose the filling.
- Brush the top of the wraps with the egg wash.
- Set the Ninja Foodi to BAKE for 2 minutes at 190C.
- Insert the air fryer basket into the Foodi and carefully place 3 turnovers into the basket. Cook for 12 minutes on Air Fry at 190C. Move the turnovers around in the basket half way through cooking.
- Transfer to a cooling rack for 5 minutes. Repeat process with the remaining 3 turnovers.
