Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, lebanese baklava. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Lebanese Baklava is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Lebanese Baklava is something which I have loved my whole life.

Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders Looking For Baklava? This simple syrup is the prime distinction of Lebanese baklawa from other variations. How to make baklava Place a layer of phyllo pastry sheets in the bottom of a prepared and greased pan. Add the mixture of crushed walnuts and sugar evenly on top, smoothening out with a spatula.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have lebanese baklava using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Lebanese Baklava:

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

This Lebanese pastry is made with sheets of filo dough (phyllo dough) or puff pastry, layered with clarified butter or ghee, and filled with sugary walnuts and topped with a rose water syrup (ater recipe). In Lebanon baklava is a very common dessert. Puff pastry is layered with melted butter. Lebanese baklawa on the otherhand uses a simple syrup mixture scented with orange blossom and rose waters.

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.

Puff pastry is layered with melted butter. 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. If top does not brown nicely, put the baklawa under the broiler for a few seconds, watching constantly, as it will burn very quickly.

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