Baklava
From riverrat715 16 years ago
- 60 minutes to make
- Serves 3
This is a wonderful Greek desert and can be made with a variety of nuts but the most common are walnuts.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 lbs walnuts chopped fine shopping list
- 1/2 cp sugar shopping list
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon shopping list
- 1/8 tsp cloves shopping list
- 40 sheets fillo dough shopping list
- 1 cp butter melted shopping list
- syrup 2 cps sugar shopping list
- 2 cps water shopping list
- 1 cp honey shopping list
- 1 tbs lemon juice shopping list
- 1 lemon peel shopping list
How to make it
- In a 12 by 16 baking pan brushed with melted butter layer 8 sheets of dough overlapping to cover bottom of pan, buttering each sheet as you go.
- Mix walnuts , sugar and spices
- spread one third of nut mixture over dough
- repeat with second set of eight sheets of dough
- again spread one third of nut mixture over dough
- repeat steps one and two a third time
- cover with remaining sixteen sheets
- score diagonally in 1 1/2 inch diamonds
- brush with remaining butter
- bake in a 350 degree oven one hour
- While baklava is baking make syrup
- Brink all ingredients to a boil and boil for 10 minutes.
- strain syrup
- Remove baklava from oven and cool slightly
- pour warm syrup over baklava
- cool completely
- cut into diamonds and enjoy enjoy enjoy
The Rating
Reviewed by 7 people-
sounds delicous thanks high5
momo_55grandma
in Mountianview loved it
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I have never tried to make this stuff before, but with these well set out instruction, I reckon that it won't be too hard to do. Thanks
trev
in Bogangar loved it
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A fiver for this one and thanks for posting it.
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