Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a instant dish, baklava. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Baklava is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Baklava is something that I have loved my entire life.

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.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have baklava using 8 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava:

1. Make ready 1 pounch chopped nuts
2. Make ready 1 tsp ground cinnamon
3. Prepare 1 package phyllo sheets
4. Prepare 1 cup melted butter
5. Take 1 cup white sugar
6. Take 1/2 cup honey
7. Get 1 tsp vanilla essence
8. Prepare 1 tsp grated lemon zest

Baklava is a Mediterranean dessert with layers of phyllo dough, nuts and honey. I've also included two authentic baklava recipes for you to try: a fancy and more involved recipe as well as a simple. Not to be confused with balaclava or Balaklava. The iconic Baklava is astonishingly straight forward to make!

Instructions to make Baklava:

1. Preheat oven at 180°c
2. Butter a rectangular baking dish in which phyllo sheets cab fit easily
3. Toss together cinnamon and nuts
4. Unroll phyllo and divide whole stacks into two portion i.e if there are 20 sheets then divide it into 10-10
5. Then cover these sheets with samp cloth to maintain moisture and avoid from drying out
6. Place two phyllo sheets in the prepared dish bottom and butter them generously
7. Sprinkle 2-3tbsp of nut mixture on that
8. Then repeart the layer of two phyllo sheets on that and then again butter it and place nuts on that and repeat same procedure untill all material gets finished and the top layer should be of phyllo only i.e no nuts on top
9. Now using a knife cut baklava into four or five long rows nad nine to 11 times diagonally to make 36-55 diamond shapes, i.e this process totally depends on the dish size, it might be less or it might be more
10. Bake it in preheated oven until golden brownand crisp for 30minutes
11. While it's baking combine sugar and water in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir in honey vanilla essence and lemon zest and aimmer it for another 20 minutes
12. Remove baklava from oven and immediately put that syrup over it by spoon
13. Let it cool before serving.

The iconic Baklava is my all time favourite pastry that I can't get enough of. You'll love how homemade Baklava is not overly sweet and. 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. Baklava uses phyllo dough stacked with honey and nuts to make a sweet Mediterranean dessert that everyone will love.

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