Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, baklava. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook baklava using 10 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Baklava:
- Make ready Phyllo dough (comes with 2 rolls)
- Prepare Pecans or Walnuts (I use pecans)
- Prepare Cinnamon
- Make ready Butter (melted)
- Take Honey (16oz)
- Get Water
- Take Sugar
- Prepare Vanilla extract
- Make ready American Honey whiskey (optional)
- Get Butter (for sauce)
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Steps to make Baklava:
- Pre-heat oven to 350. Unroll the phyllo dough and place a moist kitchen towel over the sheets. Do NOT let the dough d
- Generously butter your choice of baking pan. If the phyllo dough is a lot larger trim the dough with kitchen scissors. You will always be using 2 phyllo sheets at a time.
- Melt butter (1 1/2 sticks)
- Mix nuts and cinnamon in a bowl. Set aside
- Pick up 2 phyllo sheets and place into the buttered baking dish
- Using a basting brush, brush melted butter onto the phyllo sheets you placed in the baking dish
- Repeat steps 5 & 6 three more times
- Sprinkle nuts on top of the buttered phyllo. (A single layer that covers the dough)
- Pick up 2 phyllo sheets and place on top the nuts, butter, add nuts
- Repeat until you run out of nuts (approx 4 more times)
- Now begin layering and buttering just the phyllo dough like in steps 5 & 6. Repeat 4-5x
- Using a sharp knife, cut into squares and then into a diamond pattern. Place in the oven for 30-40 min or when the baklava is a deep golden brown.
- In a saucepan melt 1 stick of butter, water, sugar, honey, vanilla, whiskey (optional). Bring to a boil and then reduce heat to low. Simmer for 15-20 minutes
- Remove baklava from the oven and slowly pour 1/2 the sauce over the golden baklava. Once absorbed, pour the remaining sauce.
- Allow the baklava to cool uncovered for serval hours. It tastes better with time. Note: It can get soggy if covered.
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