Banana and Chocolate Empanadas

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Ingredients

  • 2 bananas
  • 1-2 teaspoons superfine sugar
  • juice of 1/4 lime
  • 6-7 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 8 sheets of phyllo pasty, thawed and halved lengthwise
  • melted butter
  • cinnamon
  • powdered sugar

Preparation

Step 1

Peel and dice the bananas and put them in a bowl. Add the sugar and the lime juice and mix all together. Stir in the chocolate.

Lay 1 long rectangular sheet of phyllo out on a counter and brush with butter. Keep the remaining phyllo covered with a clean, damp kitchen towel. Put a couple of teaspoons of the banana and chocolate mixture in one corner of the pastry, then fold over into a triangular shape to enclose the filling. Continute to fold in a triangular shape until the phyllo is completely wrapped around the filling. Put on a large cookie sheet. Repeat the process with the remaining phyllo and filling.

Bake in a preheated oven for 15 minutes, or until the pastries are golden. Remove from the oven and dust with cinnamon and powdered sugar.

Serve warm, but be careful - the filling will be very hot!