Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, baklava. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have baklava using 8 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava:

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

Put them into a bowl, stir in the honey and a pinch of salt and set aside. Baked and Packed to Order only Guarantee Using a sharp knife, cut into diamond or square shapes all the way to the bottom of the dish. Make sauce while baklava is baking: Boil sugar and water until sugar is dissolved.

Steps 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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