RECIPE: CHILI TURNOVERS - 400 F

  3/4 cup Quaker Masa Harina
  1/2 cup sifted All-Purpose Flour
  2 tsp. Baking powder
  2 TABLESPOONS shortening, liquid or melted
  1/2 cup warm water
  filling: 1 1/4 cups (10.5 oz can) chili

  For Masa pastry, sift together Masa Harina, flour and baking powder.  Add
shortening and water and stir until blended.  Knead dough with hands about 1/2
minute.  Divide dough into six parts. Shape each to form a ball.  Roll each
ball between two sheets of waxed paper to form a circle, about 7" across.
Remove top sheet of waxed paper.

  Place about 3 TABLESPOONS chili on half of circle; fold other half of dough
over top.  Peel back waxed paper.  Press edges of masa pastry to seal; flute
edges.  Prick top with fork.  Invert turnover on hand; peel off waxed paper
and place on lightly-greased cookie sheet.  Bake in preheated hot oven (400 F)
about 20 minutes.  (Makes 6)  --Quaker Oats Company, Chicago IL

  [Chili-Lovers' Cook Book, pg 116; Golden West Publishers, Phoenix AZ, 1984.]

  [We tried this the other night, with Trader Joe's Chicken Chili inside.  We
divided the recipe in half, which worked out pretty well.  The only comments I
have to add is that rolling the pastry between the wax paper sheets should be
done with a rolling pin; I had used my hands to roll out the balls, and so for
some reason I tried rolling them out by hand.  It didn't work, I couldn't get
them nearly flat enough.  I only had 3"-5" circles, which couldn't hold 3
TABLESPOONS each.  I wound up with two single-TBLS and one 2-TBLS turnovers.
Debbie had one of the smaller ones, I ate the other two. Also, in case you
didn't know this (I didn't), "fluting the edges" is done with a fork -- I
would have said "crimp the edges."  That's why you prick the top with a fork,
the fork's already in your hand.]

  [Obviously any chili will work -- this is a recipe for presentation
thereof.]

July 1991

Hazel Boston-Baden, P.O. Box 17522, Anaheim CA 92817.
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