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Mixed Nut Baklava Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Junita55 / All my dishes 1 year, 1 month ago This sweet is so easy and will delight all those that eat it Prep:10m Cook:40m Servings:10	Junita55
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Ingredients

2 1/2 cups mixed nuts chopped

4 cups sugar plus 1/2 cup

400 gms butter,

1 package filo dough

2 cups water

1/2 teaspoon lemon juice

2 teaspoons rosewater

Directions

Prepare Syrup First

Combine 4 cups sugar, lemon juice, water in a medium saucepan.

Bring to the boil; allow boiling for 10 minutes.

Add rosewater

Remove from heat immediately.

Allow to cool.

Preparing Baklava

Combine 1/2 cup sugar and nuts in a bowl.

Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius

Butter the bottom of a baking dish

Unroll dough and cut to fit baking dish

Place two sheets of dough in the baking dish brush with butter and repeat until half the filo is used then spread about 1 cup of nut mixture over the last layer of filo.

Place two sheets of filo on top brush with butter

Repeat until nut and sugar mixture is all used on the final layer of filo brush with butter

Cut into squares and then cut each square in half diagonally to make triangles.

Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until golden brown.

Remove from oven and pour syrup over top of baklava and allow [t to seep through saturating it well

Let cool serve with cream

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