Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, baklava. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Baklava is a sweet dessert made of layers of phyllo filled with chopped walnuts and pistachios, soaked with honey syrup. Baklava or baklawa is a rich, sweet pastry featured in many cuisines of the former Ottoman countries. It is made of layers of phyllo dough filled with chopped nuts, such as walnuts, almonds, or pistachios, and sweetened with syrup or honey.

Baklava is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Baklava is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have baklava using 9 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava:

1. Get 400 gms chopped nuts
2. Prepare 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3. Take 16 ounce package phyllo dough
4. Make ready 1 cup melted butter
5. Make ready 1 cup white sugar
6. Get 1 cup water
7. Take 1/2 cup honey
8. Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
9. Get 1 tsp grated lemon zest

It's a great make-ahead dessert perfect for the holidays or special occasions. Not to be confused with balaclava or Balaklava. The iconic Baklava is astonishingly straight forward to make! The iconic Baklava is my all time favourite pastry that I can't get enough of.

Instructions to make Baklava:

1. Pre heat the oven at 108˚C.
2. Trim filo pastry sheets according to the tray.
3. Grease an aluminum tray with butter and place 2-3 pastry sheets on it.
4. Apply butter over the filo pastry and repeat the process till you complete layering 10 sheets.
5. Sprinkle the walnuts over it and drizzle butter. Place 2-3 more filo pastry sheets over it and brush butter on top and repeat till process till you complete layering another 10 sheet.
6. Sprinkle almonds and repeat the same process with pistachios till all the sheets are used up and the tray is full.
7. Cut into diamonds and bake in a preheated oven at 180 for 25 – 30 minutes.
8. Heat a deep nonstick pan. Add sugar and 1 cup water and the juice of half a lemon.
9. Stir till sugar dissolves and cook till it thickens.
10. Pour the sugar syrup over the baked filo sheet and let it rest for 5 -7 minutes.
11. Serve.

You'll love how homemade Baklava is not overly sweet and. Baklava is a rich, sweet Middle Eastern pastry made from layers of filo filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with honey or syrup. It is surprisingly easy to make (thanks. Baklava is a delicious phyllo pastry popular in Middle Eastern countries. In baklava, layers of crisp phyllo dough alternate with a sugary spiced nut mixture, and the whole thing is then soaked in fragrant.

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