Chocolate-Hazelnut Baklava

Name: Chocolate-Hazelnut Baklava
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Ingredients: 340 grams bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped; 2 Tbsps cinnamon; 454 grams hazelnuts; 355 milliliters honey; 454 grams phyllo dough; 631 milliliters sugar; 2 unsalted butter, melted; 473 milliliters water

Chocolate-Hazelnut Baklava might be just the middl eastern recipe you are searching for. This recipe serves 24. One portion of this dish contains roughly 5g of protein, 18g of fat, and a total of 410 calories. If you have bittersweet chocolate, sugar, hazelnuts, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. Not a lot of people really liked this dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 35

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Spread the nuts on a baking sheet and bake for 12 minutes, until the skins are blistered; let cool. Leave the oven on.

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Spread

Nuts

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Transfer the nuts to a kitchen towel and rub off the skins, then transfer to a food processor and pulse until coarsely chopped.

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Nuts

Dry Seasoning Rub

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Kitchen Towels

Add the chocolate, 2/3 cup of the sugar and the cinnamon to the food processor and pulse until the chocolate and nuts are finely chopped and the same size.

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Chocolate

Cinnamon

Sugar

Nuts

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Unwrap the phyllo and cover with a sheet of plastic wrap. Generously butter a 9-by-13-inch metal baking pan. Butter and stack 8 sheets of phyllo. Trim the edges. Ease the stack into the pan.

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Butter

Wrap

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Sprinkle about 2 cups of the filling over the phyllo. Butter and stack 2 more phyllo sheets; fold them in half crosswise and place over the filling.

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Filo Pastry

Butter

Sprinkle on another 2 cups of the filling. Top with 2 more buttered, folded sheets and 2 cups of filling. Butter and stack 3 more phyllo sheets, fold them in half and place over the filling. Fold in the overhanging phyllo on top and brush generously with butter. Using a ruler and a sharp knife, cut the baklava (through the top and bottom) into 3-inch squares (there will be a bit left on one long side).

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Filo Pastry

Butter

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Cut each square in half to make triangles.

Bake the baklava for 25 minutes, then lower the oven temperature to 300 and bake for 50 minutes longer, until golden.

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In a saucepan, bring the water, honey and the remaining 2 cups of sugar to a boil. Simmer over moderate heat for 10 minutes. Immediately ladle the hot syrup over the hot baklava and let stand until completely cool, at least 4 hours and preferably overnight.

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Honey