Cherry Turnovers

I wanted to make cherry turnovers today, because:

1) they sounded good, and

2) I had an opened jar of Trader Joe's Dark Morello Cherries

and didn't want them to go to waste.

  However, I couldn't find a suitable recipe.

Any recipe that calls for a can of cherry filling or

pre-made pastry dough isn't really a recipe, is it?

So, I combined the pastry dough from this Big Oven recipe 

with my own very simple cherry filling recipe.

Cherry Filling

1 Jar Trader Joe's Dark Morello Cherries (24.7 oz)

3 Tablespoons tapioca

Directions

Pour the entire jar of cherries (juice and all) into a saucepan.

Add the tapioca and stir and simmer until the sauce thickens to your preference.

Let this cool until your ready to fill your turnovers.

 I didn't add any sugar because the cherries already have sugar in them.

 I was able to make twelve quite large turnovers.

I like to cut the pastry dough into squares (about 5"x5")

and fold them diagonally for triangle shaped turnovers.

 The crust turned out REALLY good!

For my egg wash, I only use the yolk with a tad of water.

They would be great with some vanilla ice cream...

The filling is not too sweet - just perfect.

I hope you have a great first week of June!

Carmen