Baklava is a sweet Mediterranean and Middle Eastern dessert filled with honey and nuts, and it’s pretty hard to resist. Baklava with Nutella, on the other hand, is a modern take on this traditional recipe that sounds like a calorie bomb, but it’s definitely worth trying.
Dina Polyashov from Simply Home Cooked shared this interesting recipe on her blog. She described this dessert as “crunchy buttered phyllo dough layered between Nutella and pecans, then drizzled in a honey syrup.” This sounds more than delicious, so make sure to try it soon.
Ingredients:
Ingredients for the syrup:
- 3/4 cup water
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1 1/2 tbsp lemon juice
Ingredients for the baklava:
- 40 sheets phyllo dough
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup Nutella
- 2 1/2 cup pecans finely chopped
Instructions:
- Begin by making the syrup first. This way it has time to cool down before you pour it over the baked baklava. Combine water, sugar, honey, and lemon juice in a saucepan. Bring it to a boil over medium-high heat. Then reduce be heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and let it cool.
- Depending on the brand, you may need to trim your phyllo sheets to fit the baking dish. Butter the bottom of a deep 9 x 13 baking dish. Place 8 sheets of phyllo dough into the baking dish, brushing melted butter on top of each sheet before placing the next. Make sure the remaining phyllo sheets are covered with a damp cloth during the process. If it is not covered, it will dry out very quickly.
- Spread 1/4 cup Nutella on top of the 8th phyllo sheet, then evenly sprinkle 1/2 cup chopped pecans.
- Add 6 buttered phyllo sheets, and this time only add 1/2 cup pecans. Then add 6 more buttered phyllo sheets 1/4 cup Nutella and 1/2 cup pecans. Add 6 buttered sheets and 1/2 cup pecans. Add 6 more buttered phyllo sheets, 1/4 cup Nutella and 1/2 cup pecans. Then finish with 8 buttered phyllo sheets and butter the top generously.
