Warm Apple And Apricot Phyllo Purses
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 3 granny smith apples, peeled and cored and cut into 1/3 inch chunks
- 10 dried apricots, cut into 1/4 inch chunks
- 1/2 cup golden raisin
- 1 cup white wine
- 2 large oranges, juice of
- 1/2 small lemon, juice of
- 5 tablespoons brown sugar
- cinnamon, to taste
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 box phyllo dough, defrosted overnight in the refridgerator
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 8 ounces bittersweet chocolate (get good quality stuff)
- Soak the apricots and the raisins in the 1 cup of white wine for 2 hours
- Drain, reserving 1/4 cup of the wine
- Preheat the oven to 320 degrees F
- In a large skillet, melt the butter over a medium flame
- Add the 1/4 cup of white wine
- Add the apples and the drained apricots and raisins
- Saute for 3 minutes
- Add the juice of 1/2 an orange and 1/2 of the lemon into the skillet and continue sauteeing
- Add the brown sugar, mix well with the fruit
- Sprinkle with cinnamon and remove from the flame
- In a small bowl, combine the cornstarch with the juice of the remaining 1 1/2 oranges
- Stir vigorously until smooth
- Put the pan of fruit back on the flame
- Slowly add the cornstarch mix to the pan, stirring continuously
- The mixture should start to thicken and caramelize
- You want it to be sticky, not runny
- Remove from the heat
- Unwrap the phyllo dough and lay out the sheets
- Cut the layered stack lengthwise and widthwise to make 4 rectangular quarter-stacks of 12 sheets each stack
- Take one rectangular sheet, brush around the edges with the melted butter
- Lay the next sheet on top, but at an angle
- Continue doing this 4 more times for a pile of 6 sheets, each sheet at an angle to the one below it
- Place a small mound of fruit in the middle
- Top the fruit with a square of chocolate
- Lift one edge toward the middle, gathering and pleating the dough as you go around the pile, pulling the edges to the middle to form a purse
- Make 8 purses this way (8 piles of 6 sheets each)
- Brush and drizzle each purse with melted butter
- Place the purses on a parchment line cookie sheet
- Bake 10 minutes
- Raise the heat to 350 degrees F, and bake another 15 minutes until the purses are golden
- Serve warm
- If you make the sheets in advance, rewarm for a few minutes in the oven to warm the fruit and melt the chocolate
butter, apples, golden raisin, white wine, oranges, lemon, brown sugar, cinnamon, cornstarch, phyllo dough, butter, bittersweet chocolate
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/warm-apple-and-apricot-phyllo-purses-116438 (may not work)