Food & Wine
Homemade baklava
This sweet, nutty, flaky dessert is a staple in many Greek and Turkish homes and is a lot simpler to make than it looks.
Serves: 18
Ingredients:
- 250g of butter
- 5 cups of chopped wallnuts
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
- 1 package of filo pastry
- 6 tablespoons of honey
- 1 cup of water
- 1 cup of caster sugar
- 1 lemon peel
Method:
- After preheating your oven to 180°C, line a 20cm by 30cm baking pan with butter.
- In a bowl, mix nuts and cinnamon and set to side.
- Unroll your filo pastry and cut stack to the size of your baking dish. Cover with damp cloth.
- Take two sheets of pastry and place in dish. Butter the top.
- Take three tablespoons of nut mi and sprinkle atop.
- Top with two more filo sheets. Repeat until you’ve used all ingredients.
- Cut your stack into diamond shapes.
- Bake until crispy and golden (about 50 minutes.)
- As baklava bakes, boil water and sugar until dissolved.
- Add in honey and peel of lemon and allow to simmer for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Remove from heat to cool and discard lemon peel.
- Once syrup has cooled, take baklava out of oven and top with syrup.
- Allow to cool uncovered.
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