Chocolate-Coconut Filo Triangles With Vanilla Ice Cream
- Ready In:
- 27mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Serves:
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6
ingredients
- 4 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
- 1⁄4 cup grated sweetened coconut, toasted
- 1⁄4 cup blanched almond, toasted
- 1⁄2 cup butter, softened
- 6 sheets phyllo pastry, halved crosswise
- vanilla ice cream
directions
- In a food processor, chop chocolate fine; add coconut, almonds and ¼ cup of butter.
- Blend mixture until smooth.
- Melt remaining butter.
- Working with 1 strip of filo at a time, arrange the strip on a work surface with short side facing you (cover the remaining filo with a damp towel to keep from drying out).
- Brush strip lightly with some of the melted butter.
- Fold down top right hand corner of filo to form a triangle; put 1 tablespoon of filling in center and continue folding in same way, to enclose filling completely (the folding process is like you are folding the flag to make a triangular shape).
- Brush with some of remaining butter and repeat 11 more times, making 12 filo triangles.
- (can be prepared up to 2 weeks in advance and kept wrapped and frozen) Preheat oven to 400F and bake triangles for 8-12 minutes (the longer time if you’re baking them frozen), or until golden.
- Serve hot with ice cream.
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Its a keeper thats for sure!!! Easy to make and fast!!! I cut each phyllo pastry at three stripes so I had more and smaller triangles! When I tasted the first without any ice cream I decided to made syrup and put it to the half of the triangles. So I ended up with the half amount as a baclava treat and the rest I 'm planning on offering them,this evening to some friends, with vanilla ice cream! Thanks Ev for one more great recipe!!!
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Wonderful! The only problem I had was a misunderstanding in the directions. When it states to cut the sheets "crosswise", I thought that meant to cut from the long side over to the long side... I think what it really meant was to cut the sheets "lengthwise". Either way, it worked eventually. I ended up cutting the sheets in half and then in half again. The filling is divine. It would not be the same if you were to sub in/out anything. They are all dependant on each other and produce a wonderful tasting treat. I will definitely make these again! Thanks!
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OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!
I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.