Steps to Prepare Homemade Baklava

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, baklava. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. 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. Make ready 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3. Prepare 16 ounce package phyllo dough
4. Make ready 1 cup melted butter
5. Prepare 1 cup white sugar
6. Get 1 cup water
7. Make ready 1/2 cup honey
8. Prepare 1 tsp vanilla extract
9. Take 1 tsp grated lemon zest

Steps 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.

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