Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, baklava. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Baklava is a rich, sweet Middle Eastern pastry made from layers of filo filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with honey or syrup. It is surprisingly easy to make. Baklava (/ bɑːkləˈvɑː, ˈbɑːkləvɑː /, or / bəˈklɑːvə /; Ottoman Turkish: باقلوا ‎) is a layered pastry dessert made of filo pastry, filled with chopped nuts, and sweetened with syrup or honey. It was one of the most popular sweet pastries of Ottoman cuisine.

Baklava is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Baklava is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook baklava using 8 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava:

1. Get 1 pounch chopped nuts
2. Make ready 1 tsp ground cinnamon
3. Make ready 1 package phyllo sheets
4. Make ready 1 cup melted butter
5. Prepare 1 cup white sugar
6. Make ready 1/2 cup honey
7. Prepare 1 tsp vanilla essence
8. Prepare 1 tsp grated lemon zest

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Instructions to make Baklava:

1. Preheat oven at 180°c
2. Butter a rectangular baking dish in which phyllo sheets cab fit easily
3. Toss together cinnamon and nuts
4. Unroll phyllo and divide whole stacks into two portion i.e if there are 20 sheets then divide it into 10-10
5. Then cover these sheets with samp cloth to maintain moisture and avoid from drying out
6. Place two phyllo sheets in the prepared dish bottom and butter them generously
7. Sprinkle 2-3tbsp of nut mixture on that
8. Then repeart the layer of two phyllo sheets on that and then again butter it and place nuts on that and repeat same procedure untill all material gets finished and the top layer should be of phyllo only i.e no nuts on top
9. Now using a knife cut baklava into four or five long rows nad nine to 11 times diagonally to make 36-55 diamond shapes, i.e this process totally depends on the dish size, it might be less or it might be more
10. Bake it in preheated oven until golden brownand crisp for 30minutes
11. While it's baking combine sugar and water in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir in honey vanilla essence and lemon zest and aimmer it for another 20 minutes
12. Remove baklava from oven and immediately put that syrup over it by spoon
13. Let it cool before serving.

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