Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, lebanese baklava. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders Looking For Baklava? Lebanese baklava is very special occasion dessert that we eat during the holidays, after breaking our fast for Ramadan or during big events with family. What makes this Lebanese baklava recipe unique from other types of baklava is the aromatic simple syrup flavored with rose water. Lebanese baklava is best served as a dessert with tea or coffee after a wonderful meal, such as Lebanese kibbeh vegetarian kibbeh or this flavoursome mujadara recipe.

Lebanese Baklava is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Lebanese Baklava is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lebanese baklava using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Lebanese Baklava:

1. Prepare 2 pcs Phyllo Pastry
2. Take 500 gr unsalted butted
3. Get 250 gr almond meal
4. Get 500 gr walnut (finely grounded with blender)
5. Take 1 cup sugar
6. Get 3 tbsp rose water
7. Make ready 3 tbsp orange blossom water
8. Prepare 100 gr pistachio (grounded)
9. Make ready Syrup/attar:
10. Take 3 cups sugar
11. Take 2 cups water
12. Get Lemon juice from 1/2 lemon
13. Take 2 tbsp orange blossom water
14. Prepare 2 tbsp rose water

Lebanese baklawa on the otherhand uses a simple syrup mixture scented with orange blossom and rose waters. Batlawa filling is also a little bit lighter than baklava, not as much filling overall and less ingredients. Batlawa is made simply with phyllo dough + butter + walnuts + sugar + orange blossom and rose waters. DIRECTIONS Unwrap and carefully unfold thawed phyllo dough; cover with plastic wrap or wax paper and a damp cloth to keep the dough from drying out.

Steps to make Lebanese Baklava:

1. First of all we make the syrup/attar. Boil the water, add sugar. Stir it occasionally until thickened. Once it thickened, turn off the fire add lemon juice, rose water, and orange blossom water, mix them well. Store in a bottle or container while cooled.
2. Preheat oven 160°C, meanwhile we prepare the baklava filling. Mix almond meal, ground walnut, sugar, rose water, and orange blossom water in a mixing bowl until it becomes like a dough. If it needs more water, add more rose water or orange blossom water gradually.
3. Melt the butter properly. Coat the baking tray with the butter.
4. Remove first phyllo pastry from the packaging, spread carefully on the butter in the baking tray.
5. Spread the walnut mixture on top of the phyllo pastry evenly. Make sure you press it to make it firm.
6. Open another package of phyllo pastry and layer it on top of the walnut filling and press it carefully.
7. Start cutting baklava in diamond shape with a sharp knife slowly. Make sure it cut really well to the bottom layer.
8. After all tray of baklava cut really well, pour butter gradually all over it.
9. Bake it until the top layer looks flaky. It takes around 10-20 mins, oven heat may vary. Don't let it over cook, it doesn't take long.
10. Remove from the over when the top layer looks golden and flaky.
11. Pour syrup/attar on top of it while it's still hot. Sprinkle ground pistachio. Wait until it cools down.
12. Baklava is ready to enjoy for dessert.

Batlawa is made simply with phyllo dough + butter + walnuts + sugar + orange blossom and rose waters. DIRECTIONS Unwrap and carefully unfold thawed phyllo dough; cover with plastic wrap or wax paper and a damp cloth to keep the dough from drying out. FOR THE FILLING – Grind the walnuts coarsely, mix with sugar and orange blossom water until well blended. Lebanese baklawa is buttery, crisp layers of phyllo filled with nuts and drenched in flower water syrup. Once you get the hang of the many parts involved, it's a wonderful and not-difficult addition to your baking repertoire!

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