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Recipe of Award-winning Easy Baklava

 ·  ☕ 4 min read  ·  ✍️ Bryan Poole

Easy Baklava
Easy Baklava

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, easy baklava. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Unroll filo and cut whole stack in half to fit the dish. Cover filo with a damp cloth while assembling the baklava, to keep it from drying out. Place two sheets of filo in the bottom of the prepared dish. The ingredient list now reflects the servings specified.

Easy Baklava is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Easy Baklava is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook easy baklava using 12 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Baklava:
  1. Take Filling
  2. Prepare 1 1/2 cup pistachio
  3. Make ready 1 1/2 cup pecans
  4. Get 1 tbsp cinnamon
  5. Prepare 1/2 tsp ground cloves
  6. Get Pastry
  7. Prepare 1 cup unsalted butter, melted
  8. Take 1 packages phyllo dough sheets (fillo)
  9. Make ready Syrup
  10. Get 1 cup water
  11. Prepare 1/2 cup sugar
  12. Take 1/2 cup honey

Bring to the boil, then remove from heat. Let cool before pouring over hot baklava. Remove the baklava from the oven and spoon half the cooled syrup over the top. If you are not making phyllo sheets from scratch, it is really so easy to make baklava using packaged phyllo.

Steps to make Easy Baklava:
  1. Thaw phyllo dough according to directions on package.
  2. Preheat oven to 375°F
  3. In a food processor, combine all the filling ingredients and pulse a few times to mix the nuts as well as grind them down into pieces.
  4. On low heat, melt your butter in a sauce pan. Open the phyllo dough and lay out flat. Trim the sheets of dough to fit a 9"x3" baking pan (casserole dish). Split the dough into four equal stacks. They dont have to be perfect numbers.
  5. Lay first stack of dough into pan. Next sprinkle some of the filling on top. Repeat this step two more times. Lastly, add the final layer of dough on top. Feel free to do as many layers as you like and any thickness you like.
  6. Cut the pastry into 24 squares. Remove foamy white part from melted butter. Pour melted butter over all the pastry evenly.
  7. Bake pastry for 40 minutes.
  8. Remove from oven and allow time to cool off and become crispy.
  9. Meanwhile, in a sauce pan on medium high heat, bring water and sugar to a boil. Stir and ensure all sugar is dissolved. Add honey and bring back to a boil then lower to simmer for ten minutes.
  10. Once pastry has cooled off, pour syrup over all the pastry evenly.
  11. Allow the pastry time to rest up to as many as 15 hours in order to enjoy the baklava at its finest.

Remove the baklava from the oven and spoon half the cooled syrup over the top. 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. I love baklava but rarely indulge because it takes so much time to make. Then a friend of mine gave me this simple recipe.

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