Chocolate Baklava

Name: Chocolate Baklava
Prep time: 1 h 55 min
Cook time: 1 h 55 min
Total time: 1 h 55 min
Yield: 18
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon butter; 227 grams dark chocolate (such as Callebaut®), finely chopped; 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 118 milliliters honey; 2 Tbsps lemon juice; 177 milliliters orange juice; 454 grams pecans, finely chopped; 454 grams phyllo dough, thawed; 57 grams semisweet chocolate; 118 milliliters water; 118 milliliters white sugar

Chocolate Baklava might be a good recipe to expand your dessert repertoire. One portion of this dish contains roughly 5g of protein, 26g of fat, and a total of 401 calories. This recipe serves 18. This recipe covers 12% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 1 hour and 55 minutes. It is a rather inexpensive recipe for fans of middl eastern food. If you have pecans, orange juice, semisweet chocolate, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a 10x14-inch baking pan with butter.

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Mix pecans, dark chocolate, 3/4 cup sugar, and cinnamon in a bowl. Trim phyllo dough to fit prepared baking pan.

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Dark Chocolate

Filo Pastry

Cinnamon

Pecans

Sugar

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Bowl

Layer 8 sheets of phyllo dough in prepared baking pan, brushing each sheet with melted butter; sprinkle with 2 cups pecan mixture.

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Filo Pastry

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Pecans

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Spread butter on 4 more sheets of phyllo and layer over pecans; sprinkle with 2 more cups pecans. Repeat layers with 4 more sheets of phyllo and remaining pecans.

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Spread

Pour any leftover butter over baklava.

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Butter

Cut through the top few layers of phyllo lengthwise, leaving bottom layer intact, to create 4 long rows. Make evenly-spaced zigzag cuts along each row to create small triangles, again leaving bottom layer of phyllo intact.

Bake in preheated oven until phyllo dough is golden brown and flaky, about 1 hour; immediately finish cutting through to bottom layer of baklava.

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Filo Pastry

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Bring orange juice, honey, water, 1/2 cup sugar, and lemon juice to a boil in a saucepan; reduce heat to medium and simmer until thickened, about 20 minutes.

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Orange Juice

Lemon Juice

Honey

Sugar

Water

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Pour sauce over baklava.

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Sauce

Melt remaining 2 ounces chocolate and 1 teaspoon butter in the top of a double boiler over simmering water, stirring frequently and scraping down the sides with a rubber spatula to avoid scorching.

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Chocolate