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Avocado Turnovers with Cajun Honey Dipping Sauce

Avocado turnovers filled with avocado and shrimp, served with a Cajun honey dipping sauce.

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Why it works: Lemon and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,973 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Avocado Turnovers with Cajun Honey Dipping Sauce

Oven400°F
Timeabout 12 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. In a heavy, deep saucepan, mix honey with lemon juice, tomato paste, hot pepper sauce, thyme, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.

  2. Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, until mixture is well blended and just begins to boil; remove from heat.

  3. Cool the sauce; reserve.

Make the filling

  1. Puree 3 avocados until smooth.

  2. Thoroughly mix avocado, shrimp, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, garlic, 1/2 teaspoon salt (or to taste), and 1/2 teaspoon pepper (or to taste); reserve.

Shape and bake

  1. Roll out pie dough 1/8-inch thick.

  2. Cut dough into 3-1/2-inch rounds.

  3. Re-roll dough as necessary to make 72 rounds.

  4. Place 1/2 tablespoon filling on half of each round.

  5. Fold dough over; seal tightly with tines of a fork.

  6. Remove turnovers to parchment-lined sheet pan.

  7. Lightly brush turnovers with egg wash.

  8. Bake at 400°F until golden brown, about 12 minutes.

  9. Serve warm or at room temperature.

Plate and serve

  1. Fill 1 ramekin with 1/4 cup reserved sauce.

  2. Sprinkle sauce with 1 teaspoon green onion.

  3. Set ramekin on serving plate.

  4. Arrange 3 turnovers on plate.

  5. Garnish with 1 slice avocado and thyme sprigs.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

573Calories
37 gProtein
28 gFat
53 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 14 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Shrimp100g cooked99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Green Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saucenot in our table0
Meatnot in our table0
Pastrynot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lemon + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Tomato + avocadotop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,385 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Pepper + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Tomato + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,370 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Honey
Provides sweetness and body to the dipping sauce, balanced by the acidity of lemon juice.
Avocados
Pureed, they add creamy moisture and richness to the shrimp filling.
Short pastry dough
Forms a crisp, flaky shell that bakes golden around the filling.
Shrimp meat
Adds savory, tender bites of protein to the avocado filling.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sauce and helps keep the cut avocado from browning.
Tomato paste
Adds concentrated savory depth and body to the sauce.

The step that matters

Seal the turnovers tightly. Pressing the edges firmly with a fork closes the dough so the moist avocado filling does not leak out and scorch during baking.

Swap the avocado

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (honey, sauce, lemon, tomato, pepper, thyme, shrimp):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadothe original
  3. Mangofits about as well
  4. Cherryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against honey, sauce, lemon, tomato, pepper, thyme, shrimp. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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