Skip to main content
Dessert

Avocado Turnovers with Cajun Honey Dipping Sauce

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

From the Recipes Wiki (Fandom) · 17 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Honey and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 672 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

The recipe

Oven400°F
Timeabout 12 minutes

Ingredients

Contains: egg, wheat, shellfish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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.

Recipe from the Recipes Wiki (Fandom).

This recipe comes from the Recipes Wiki on Fandom and is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Our formatting and summaries are shared under the same licence.

Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Honey + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together672 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Lemon + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,973 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + avocadotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,385 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Pepper + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11,585 recipes

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

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.

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

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

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Mangoabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Cherryabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against honey, sauce, tomato, pepper, thyme, avocado, shrimp. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“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.

You might also like

Illustration of Lemon CakeIllustrationLemon Cake228 recipesIllustration of Lemon IceIllustrationLemon Ice147 recipesIllustration of Lemon SherbetIllustrationLemon Sherbet103 recipesIllustration of Lemon CustardIllustrationLemon Custard64 recipes