Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, homemade baklava. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Homemade Baklava is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Homemade Baklava is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook homemade baklava using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Homemade Baklava:

1. Prepare 250 g strudel dough or 16 layers phyllo pastry
2. Make ready 125 g unsalted butter, melted
3. Take 1/2 cup pecans
4. Make ready 1/2 cup macadamia
5. Get 2 teaspoons cinnamon, ground
6. Take Syrup
7. Take 1 cup sugar
8. Make ready 3/4 cups water
9. Take 2 tablespoons lemon juice
10. Take 1/2 honey

Nut mixture-pistachios, walnuts, hazelnut, sugar, ground cinnamon, pinch of ground cloves. You can change the nut mixture according to what you have. Modern baklava is always made with paper-thin filo - except when it's made by me, influenced by a throwaway comment made by Der Haroutunian: "If you wish to be more authentic, use homemade baklava. If you are not making phyllo sheets from scratch, it is really so easy to make baklava using packaged phyllo.

Instructions to make Homemade Baklava:

1. In a pot add the syrup ingredients which is sugar, water, lemon juice and honey. Heat until sugar is dissolved. Turn off heat and let cool down.
2. Chop nuts (pecans and macadamia) finely and mix with ground cinnamon
3. Preheat oven to 160°C. In a oven proof dish spread a layer of unsalted butter, lay a sheet of strudel or phylly pastry, spread butter again. Do this for 5 layers. Add a layer of nut mixture (third of the nut mixture)
4. Add 3 layers of strudel or phyllo pastry with butter between each layer. Add another layer of nut mixture. Repeat one more time.
5. Last layer should be like first layer with 5 strudel or phyllo pastry sheets. Butter between each layer.
6. Cut into squares right to the bottom of the dish.
7. Bake in 160°C oven for 1 hour 15 minutes or until top layer is golden brown.
8. Remove from oven, let cool slightly. Pour syrup over baklava.
9. Enjoy with a cup of tea!

Modern baklava is always made with paper-thin filo - except when it's made by me, influenced by a throwaway comment made by Der Haroutunian: "If you wish to be more authentic, use homemade baklava. If you are not making phyllo sheets from scratch, it is really so easy to make baklava using packaged phyllo. What makes it a challenge for most people is the duration of preparing the layers of baklava in baking pan. A bakery style baklava indeed that everyone will think you just got it from a high end Greek restaurant. Homemade Baklava is way better than the store bought ones.

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