Whenever I go to a pastry shop I eat tulumbe or baklava. Every single time. The simplest pleasures are the best. This is my first attempt at baklava and to be honest, the best one I’ve ever had. Actually, I was afraid how it will turn out. Knitting needle?! When I saw how Minja does it I thought I could never make it. But, the needle turned out to be a revolutionary utensil and from now own, everything phyllo will be made like this This recipe is straightforward and clear, and what’s most important, beginner friendly.
Minja’s Chocolate Baklava (Burma Tatlisi)
(original recipe)
500 g thin baklava phyllo sheets
125 g ground walnuts
50 g chopped walnuts
100 g milk chocolate
1,5 Tbsp sugar
1,5 Tbsp semolina
grated zest of one lemon
100 ml oil
50 ml sparkling mineral water
60 g margarine
Boil mineral water and oil. Remove from heat and let cool. In a bowl mix ground and chopped walnuts, sugar, semolina, grated chocolate and lemon zest. Take one phyllo sheet, spread oil mixture with a pastry brush over, place a knitting needle 5 cm from the sheet edge and fold. Spread about two tablespoons of filling over the folded part. Roll with the help of a needle, but not to tight.
Take 23×33 cm rectangular pan and “wrinkle” your phyllo roll away from the needle (see Minja’s post for the details). Repeat until you run out of the ingredients. Melt margarine and pour over baklava.
Bake in a preheated oven on 200°C for about 20 minutes.
While your baklava is baking, prepare the syrup of 375 ml water and 500 g sugar using the same method as I did for tulumbe only these quantities will produce a thicker syrup. When baklava is done, pour the syrup over while it’s still hot.
Of course, this will taste best if you let it rest in the fridge overnight. But, as usual, we ate everything the same day
Note:This is my entry for FBI Rukavice, event created by mamajac of Cooks and Bakes. This month we are investigating Minjina Kuhinjica.
28 Comments
Wow, that looks wickedly moist!
oh I love Baklava. I ve never had it with chocolate though. Looks delicious! Fantastic photos too.
WOW Marija, I am speechless, these looks so good, I thought you were joking when you said knitting needle! That is such a great idea. Would love to make this for sure.Cheers,elra
What gorgeous Baklava! I’m drooling…Cheers,Rosa
Oh, look at that syrup! Looks delish!
prekrasno ti je ispala, fotke jako lijepe pogotovo ona gdje sipas sirup :)! nikad je nisam radila, mozda bi mogla probat je napravit…:)
ne volim baklavu, ali moram priznati da ova stvarno dobro izgleda
They look fantatsic. Better than any shop bought creations.
ja volim baklave-sve moguće :)jednom sam se toliko prejela za neku slavu da sam posle patila tri dana hahasuper ti je ispala!
I loooove baklava.:))) and this one looks wicked. i na mom je popisu…:)
predivno si je napravila… fotke su fantasticne…
Divno si je napravila. Evo David je upravo video i sad mi traži da je pravim :D
napravila si ju fantasticno, prezentacija vrhunska, a posebno mi se svidja oblik rolica. ja sam radila onako klasicnu, ali ova je puno bolja i efektnija. predivno!
mmm.. izgledaju ko male sarmice:))nisam još nigdje vidila ovako zarolane, maher si svaka čast:))
This looks great. I’ve always kind of idly wondered if there was a way to make chocolate baklava…
I ate these in Turkey every day!!Thanks for the recipe!
OMG!! I can’t say anything else than ‘WOW’!!!
WOOOOW ovo ti je zbilja predobro, ma baš si umjetnik =)i što se tiće recepta i što se tiče slika =)Mislim da definitivno zaslužuješ nagradicu koju si ti dodjeljujem, a možeš ju pokupiti na mom blogu =)Nadam se da će ti se svidjeti =)
To anonymus reader:I understand how you feel, but you must understand that I do not want the speech of hatred on my site. I am very sorry if anyone felt offended by reading any of my posts – as that surely was never my intention.
Beautiful. Simply beautiful. I am drooling for some baklava right now. :-)
Looks perfect. I wish my first try at Baklava looked anywhere near close to yours.
I think I could eat the whole pan. Yum!
Nisam ljubitelj baklave, ali ove tvoje izgledaju božanstveno, ne mogu vjerovat da si ih sada radila prvi put, stvarno si maherica.
Once again beautiful photos.THe baklava looks irresistable.And once again beautiful table linen.
Mmmmmm … that looks so tempting :-)!
That baklava looks so good! I really like the sound of the chocolate in it. I am going to have to try that shape the next time I make baklava.
These look SINFUL!! But who cares!! hehe :-) Lovely work + photos!!
I adore baklava, and have never seen them in that shape before. I haven’t tried making my own yet, maybe I’ll start with that recipe. Thanks!
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