Easiest Way to Make Award-winning Baklava

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, baklava. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Baklava is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Baklava is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have baklava using 8 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Baklava:

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

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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